different between pore vs nanoporous
pore
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)
- A tiny opening in the skin.
- 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)
- 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.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 10
- to meditate or reflect in a steady way.
Derived terms
- pore over
Translations
Anagrams
- Pero, oper, reop, repo, rope
Cornish
Noun
pore
- 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)
- pore (a tiny opening in the skin)
Inflection
Finnish
Etymology
From por +? -e.
Noun
pore
- bubble (gas bubble in water)
- 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)
- pore (small opening in skin)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- pore (small opening in skin)
Venetian
Adjective
pore f
- feminine plural of poro
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nanoporous
English
Etymology
nano- +? porous
Adjective
nanoporous (not comparable)
- Having nanosized pores.
nanoporous From the web:
- what is nanoporous materials
- what is nanoporous membrane
- what is nanoporous metals
- what are nanoporous crystals
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