different between cage vs pore

English

Etymology

From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of jail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke?d?/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Noun

cage (plural cages)

1. An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
2. The passenger compartment of a lift.
3. (field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
4. (US, derogatory, slang) An automobile.
5. (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
6. (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
7. An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
8. (engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
9. A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
10. (mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
11. (baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
12. (graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

cage (third-person singular simple present cages, present participle caging, simple past and past participle caged)

1. To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
2. (figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
3. (aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.

4. To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• cega

French

Etymology

From Old French cage, from Latin cavea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?/

Noun

cage f (plural cages)

1. cage

   cage d'escalier - staircase

2. (soccer, colloquial) area, penalty area

Derived terms

Further reading

• “cage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• kage, gage

Etymology

From Old French cage, from Latin cavea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?d?(?)/

Noun

cage (plural cages)

1. A cage or pen.
2. A cell, enclosure or room of diminutive proportions.
3. A platform or deck.

Descendants

• English: cage
• Scots: cage

References

• “c??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-22.

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: pôr, IPA^(key): /p??/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pô, IPA^(key): /p??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: p?r, IPA^(key): /po(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: pour, poor (in accents with the pour–poor merger); paw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English pore, from Old French pore, from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek ????? (póros, “passage”). Displaced native Old English sw?tþ?rel (literally “sweat hole”) and l?cþ?ote (literally “body pipe”).

Noun

pore (plural pores)

1. A tiny opening in the skin.
2. By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.

Related terms

• porous

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English poren, pouren, puren (“to gaze intently, look closely”), from Old English *purian, suggested by Old English spyrian (“to investigate, examine”). Akin to Middle Dutch poren (“to pore, look”), Dutch porren (“to poke, prod, stir, encourage, endeavour, attempt”), Low German purren (“to poke, stir”), Danish purre (“to poke, stir, rouse”), dialectal Swedish pora, pura, påra (“to work slowly and gradually, work deliberately”), Old English spor (“track, trace, vestige”). Compare also Middle English puren, piren (“to look, peer”). See peer.

Verb

pore (third-person singular simple present pores, present participle poring, simple past and past participle pored)

1. to study meticulously; to go over again and again.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 10

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

2. to meditate or reflect in a steady way.

Derived terms

• pore over

Translations

Anagrams

• Pero, oper, reop, repo, rope

Cornish

Noun

pore

1. Hard mutation of bore.

Danish

Etymology

From Latin porus, from Ancient Greek ????? (póros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?r?/, [?p?o??]

Noun

pore c (singular definite poren, plural indefinite porer)

1. pore (a tiny opening in the skin)

Inflection

Finnish

Etymology

From por +? -e.

Noun

pore

1. bubble (gas bubble in water)
2. An area of molten water near the edge of ice in a melting lake.

Declension

Synonyms

• (bubble): kupla

Anagrams

• Repo, repo, rope

French

Etymology

From Old French pore, from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek ????? (póros, “passage”).

Noun

pore m (plural pores)

1. pore (small opening in skin)
2. by extension, small openings

Further reading

• “pore” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (póros, “passage”).

Noun

pore f or m (definite singular pora or poren, indefinite plural porer, definite plural porene)

1. a pore (e.g. in the skin)

Related terms

• porøs

References

• “pore” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (póros, “passage”).

Noun

pore f (definite singular pora, indefinite plural porer, definite plural porene)

1. a pore (e.g. in the skin)

Related terms

• porøs

References

• “pore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek ????? (póros, “passage”).

Noun

pore m (oblique plural pores, nominative singular pores, nominative plural pore)

1. pore (small opening in skin)

Venetian

Adjective

pore f

1. feminine plural of poro