• (General American)enPR:pôr,IPA^(key):/poɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation)enPR:pô,IPA^(key):/pɔː/
• (rhotic,without thehorse–hoarse merger)enPR:pōr,IPA^(key):/po(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic,without thehorse–hoarse merger)IPA^(key):/poə/

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• Rhymes:-ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones:pour;poor(pour–poor merger);paw(non-rhotic,horse–hoarse merger)

FromMiddle Englishpore, fromOld Frenchpore, fromLatinporus, fromAncient Greekπόρος(póros,“passage”). Displaced nativeEnglishsweat hole fromMiddle Englishswet hole, which might have been a reformation ofOld Englishswātþȳrel(literally“sweat hole”), which competed withlīcþēote(literally“body pipe”).

pore (pluralpores)

1. Atinyopening in theskin.

   Synonym:sweat hole

   I could sense the sweat dripping out of all mypores.

2. By extension any small opening orinterstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of afluid.

   thepores of a rock.

   • 1903, Ray Smith Bassler,The Structural Features of the Bryozoan Genus Homotrypa, with Descriptions of Species from the Cincinnatian Group, page570:

     Under certain conditions tangential sections indicate that the zoœcial walls and the intermural space are seemingly pierced by communicationpores or connecting foramina.

   • 1947,Walter Johnson, “The Rebirth of the Progressive Movement”, inWilliam Allen White’s America, New York, N.Y.:Henry Holt and Company,→OCLC, part IV (Normalcy and Reform),page436:

     After reading White’s vitriolic language,The New York Times facetiously remarked that “Kansas is bleeding from everypore of her vocabularium. Sharp’s rifles are discharging from the well-known Emporium of White & Son, unlimited, and Bibles are closed until after election.”

• porous

FromMiddle Englishporen,pouren,puren(“to gaze intently, look closely”), fromOld English*pūrian, fromProto-West Germanic*pūrōn, suggested byOld Englishspyrian(“to investigate, examine”). Akin toSaterland Frisianpuurje(“to question, investigate; pry, prod”),West Frisianpoarje(“to poke, prod”),Middle Dutchporen(“to pore, look”),Dutchporren(“to poke, prod, stir, encourage, endeavour, attempt”),Low Germanpurren(“to poke, stir”),Danishpurre(“to poke, stir, rouse”), dialectalSwedishpora,pura,påra(“to work slowly and gradually, work deliberately”),Old Englishspor(“track, trace, vestige”). Compare alsoMiddle Englishpuren,piren(“to look, peer”). Seepeer.

pore (third-person singular simple presentpores,present participleporing,simple past and past participlepored)

1. Tostudymeticulously; to go over again and again.
   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter X, inThe Last Man. […], volume I, London:Henry Colburn, […],→OCLC:

     Yet each foreign post day she watched for the arrival of letters - knew the postmark, and watched me as I read. I found her oftenporing over the articles of Greek intelligence in the newspaper.

2. Tomeditate orreflect in a steady way.

• pore over

• Pero,oper,reop,repo,rope

pore

1. Hard mutation ofbore.

FromLatinporus, fromAncient Greekπόρος(póros).

• IPA^(key):/poːrə/,[ˈpʰoːɐ]

pore c (singular definiteporen,plural indefiniteporer)

1. pore(a tiny opening in the skin)

FromProto-Finnic*porëk, equivalent topor- +‎-e.

• IPA^(key):/ˈporeˣ/,[ˈpo̞re̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes:-ore
• Hyphenation^(key):po‧re

pore

1. bubble(gas bubble in water)

   Synonym:kupla

2. area ofmolten water near the edge of ice in a melting lake
3. (slang)speed(recreational amphetamine drug)

   Synonyms:piri,amfe,amffe,spiidi,vauhti,pöhinä,virta,vireeni,(standard)amfetamiini

• “pore”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-03

• Repo,repo,rope

FromOld Frenchpore, fromLatinporus, fromAncient Greekπόρος(póros,“passage”).

• IPA^(key):/pɔʁ/
• Homophones:porc,port

pore m (pluralpores)

1. pore(small opening in the skin)
2. (by extension) smallopening of any kind

• poreux
• ostéoporose

• “pore”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

FromAncient Greekπόρος(póros,“passage”).

pore f orm (definite singularporaorporen,indefinite pluralporer,definite pluralporene)

1. apore (e.g. in the skin)

• porøs

• “pore” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

FromAncient Greekπόρος(póros,“passage”).

pore f (definite singularpora,indefinite pluralporer,definite pluralporene)

1. apore (e.g. in the skin)

• porøs

• “pore” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed fromLatinporus, fromAncient Greekπόρος(póros,“passage”).

poreoblique singular, m (oblique pluralpores,nominative singularpores,nominative pluralpore)

1. pore (small opening in skin)

pore f

1. feminineplural ofporo

pore

1. a type ofghost,apparition with glowing red eyes which wanders through jungles or villages

• Lizot, Jacques (2004)Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ‎^[2] (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho,→ISBN