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pore

[pawr, pohr]

verb (used without object), pored, por·ing.

to read or study with steady attention or application: a scholar poring over a rare old manuscript.

to gaze earnestly or steadily: to pore over a painting.

to meditate or ponder intently (usually followed by over, on, or upon): He pored over the strange events of the preceding evening.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English pouren < ?

Can be confused: pause, paws, pores, pours.

Synonyms
3. ponder, scrutinize, peruse, examine.

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Example Sentences

To pore over these objects is to be repeatedly astounded by the level of design and technical achievement.

Asked to read a manuscript, you pore over every word.

But the figures that officials and pundits pore over are not those of opinion polls.

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To pore over these objects is to be repeatedly astounded by the level of design and technical achievement.

Asked to read a manuscript, you pore over every word.

But the figures that officials and pundits pore over are not those of opinion polls.

She captured the image as the cell crept into a pore on a laboratory filter to illustrate how cancer cells move.

We go to conferences and meetings, pore over other publications, and routinely confer with our researcher sources and authors.

Pore over maps of the region so you can familiarize yourself with the locations of these remote sites.

Roots absorb oxygen from the air found in pore spaces between soil particles.

As you pore through feature lists, you'll likely come across a lot of specs.

And they get to pore over math problems one-on-one with newly hired tutors, many of them former accountants and engineers.

Downstairs, visitors pore over planning applications, with staff on hand to help.

The oil and gas sits within the pore spaces of rock.

Gas is released through a pore in the bottom of its float, which is refilled through secretions from a special gland.

The second part is a segment that determines whether the pore will open or close.

In trying to pick a way through today's financial crisis, there are plenty to pore over.

Model makers had to pore over numerous prospective building plans to accurately depict the forward-looking cityscape.

We will miss the intensity, brilliance and energy that seeped from his every pore.

It can decode the structure of proteins and can look deep into every pore in a moon rock.

Many students pore over these ratings when choosing courses and colleges.

While the experts pore over their plans for clusters and hubs, a couple of genuine entrepreneurs have shown the way.

For hours, he would spot different aircraft and pore over timetables to figure out where they were coming from, or headed to.

For hours each day he would pore over catalogues, talk to dealers and visit galleries.

As investigators pore over his holdings, they might look in one other place as well: his secret island.

Before long his brain will appear in three digitised dimensions on the internet, for researchers to pore over.

Today, of course, popular culture bleeds from every pore.

They are not so good for devoted fans who want to pore over everything a group puts out.

In the control room technicians pore over second-by-second readings of the levels of different pollutants in the exhaust.

America's tea-partiers are the opposite: they exhale fiscal probity through every pore.

He began to pore over scholarly reports on elephant.

The first major group of toxins are the pore forming toxins or membrane damaging toxins.

For now, the product is aimed at government officials who pore over detailed maps or doctors who perform delicate surgery.

He would pore over the details of criminal cases from around the country that.

She then compared this data with pore placement on two species of shovelnose rays.

Think of the size of the grains of the sand and you get a feel for the size of the pore spaces in a typical sandstone.

In sand, it lodges in the large pore spaces and acts as a sponge, slowing drainage so the soil.

For two years, they will pore over management models and income statements in hopes of earning a job in finance or management.

Pressure groups can pore over every detail of company policy from the use of child labour to carbon emissions.

Consumers would be forced to record every purchase they make and pore over monthly bank statements.

These salespeople typically pore over electronic profiles bought from.

Dre to pore over circuitboard designs and digital signal.

Madrasis and visitors pore over their morning papers, washing down patties and pancakes with small cups of sweet, milky coffee.

His characteristically high focus caught every pore and every drop of sweat on his subjects' faces, and.

People pore over the latest technological journals but consult fortunetellers about their next business venture.

Though there is little explicit bloodshed, the film shows a readiness for violence in every pore.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.

a minute interstice, as in a rock.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English poore < Late Latin porus < Greek póros passage; see emporium, ford

Related forms

pore·like, adjective

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World English Dictionary

pore¹ (pɔː)

—vb (foll by over, on, or upon) (foll by over, on, or upon)
1.	(foll by over) to make a close intent examination or study (of a book, map, etc): he pored over the documents for several hours
2.	to think deeply (about): he pored on the question of their future
3.	rare to look earnestly or intently (at); gaze fixedly (upon)

pore² (pɔː)

—n
1.	anatomy, zoology any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal
2.	botany any small aperture, esp that of a stoma through which water vapour and gases pass
3.	any other small hole, such as a space in a rock, soil, etc

[C14: from Late Latin porus, from Greek poros passage, pore]

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Word Origin & History

pore

c.1300, perhaps from O.E. *purian, suggested by spyrian "to investigate, examine," and spor "a trace, vestige."

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pore

late 14c., from L. porus "a pore," from Gk. poros "a pore," lit. "passage, way," from PIE *por- "going, passage," from base *per- "to lead, pass over" (see port (1)).

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

pore (pôr)
n.

A minute opening in an animal or plant tissue.
One of the minute openings of the sweat glands of the skin.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

pore (pôr) Pronunciation Key

A tiny opening, as one in an animal's skin or on the surface of a plant leaf or stem, through which liquids or gases may pass.
A space in soil, rock, or loose sediment that is not occupied by mineral matter and allows the passage or absorption of fluids, such as water, petroleum, or air.

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