different between shredded vs tore

English

Verb

shredded

1. simple past tense and past participle of shred

Adjective

shredded (comparative more shredded, superlative most shredded)

1. cut or torn into narrow pieces
2. (bodybuilding): Having extreme muscular definition.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tô, IPA^(key): /t??/
• (General American) enPR: tôr, IPA^(key): /t??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: t?r, IPA^(key): /to(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /to?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: tor (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger), taw (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tor, tore, toor, from Old Norse tor- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”, prefix), from Proto-Germanic *tuz- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *dus- (“bad, ill, difficult”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?w?- (“to fail, be behind, be lacking”). Cognate with Old High German zur- (“mis-”, prefix), Gothic ????????????- (tuz-, “hard, difficult”, prefix), Ancient Greek ???- (dus-, “bad, ill, difficult”, prefix). More at dys-.

Alternative forms

• tor

Adjective

tore (comparative more tore, superlative most tore)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
2. (dialectal or obsolete) Strong, sturdy; great, massive.
3. (dialectal or obsolete) Full; rich.

Derived terms

• torely

Etymology 2

Verb

tore

1. simple past tense of tear (“rip, rend, speed”).
2. (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of tear (“rip, rend, speed”)

Usage notes

• The past tense of the other verb tear, meaning "produce liquid from the eyes", is teared.

Etymology 3

See torus.

Noun

tore (plural tores)

1. (architecture) Alternative form of torus
2. (geometry) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
3. The solid enclosed by such a surface; an anchor ring.

Etymology 4

Probably from the root of tear; compare Welsh word for a break or cut.

Noun

tore (uncountable)

1. The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.

   • the more Tore you have, the less Quantity of Hay will do

Anagrams

• rote

Estonian

Adjective

tore (genitive toreda, partitive toredat)

1. fine, splendid

Declension

French

Etymology

From Latin torus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??/

Noun

tore m (plural tores)

1. (geometry) torus

Derived terms

• torique

Further reading

• tore on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Anagrams

• ôter, rote, roté

Latin

Noun

tore

1. vocative singular of torus

Ngarrindjeri

Noun

tore

1. mouth

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þora, of further back unknown origin. Cognates include Icelandic þora and Faroese tora. Some also come in their mediopassive variants, Swedish töras and Westrobothnian tåras, as does also the deponent Norwegian Nynorsk torast.

Alternative forms

• tora (a- and split infinitives)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²to?.r?/ (example of pronunciation)
• Homophone: tåre

Verb

tore (present tense torer or tør, past tense torde, supine tort)

1. (intransitive) to dare

Related terms

• torast

See also

• tørre (Bokmål)

Etymology 2

Connected to Old Norse Þórr (“Tor, Thor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²tu?r?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

tore f (definite singular tora, indefinite plural torer, definite plural torene)

1. a thunder

Alternative forms

• tora (non-standard since 2012)

Derived terms

Verb

tore (present tense torar, past tense tora, past participle tora, passive infinitive torast, present participle torande, imperative tor)

1. (impersonal, metereology) to thunder
2. (intransitive, figuratively) to rage

   Synonyms: buldre, skjenne, smelle

Alternative forms

• tora (a-infinitive)
• torna, torne (with n-infix and either infinitive)

See also

• lyn n (“lightning”)
• (noun): torden (Bokmål)
• (verb): tordne (Bokmål)

Etymology 3

From Old Norse tóra (“to live life meazelly”).

Alternative forms

• (a-infintive): torast

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²tu?r?/ (example of pronunciation)

Verb

tore (present tense torar, past tense tora, past participle tora, passive infinitive torast, present participle torande, imperative tor)

1. (intransitive, about fire) to burn weakly

References

• “tore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• erot, oret, orte, oter, rote, ròte, tore, Tore, troe

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish torre.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: to?re
• IPA^(key): /?to??/

Noun

tore

1. tower