pore
Collocations
6(noun.)
ADJ
blocked | open
VERB + PORE
block | unblock
open
After exercising, sweat opens your pores and helps your skin breathe naturally.
close
Definitions
noun
A tiny opening in the skin.
I could sense the sweat dripping out of all my pores.
By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.
the pores of a rock.
Under certain conditions tangential sections indicate that the zoœcial walls and the intermural space are seemingly pierced by communication pores or connecting foramina.
verb
To study meticulously; to go over again and again.
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.
To meditate or reflect in a steady way.
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6I could sense the sweat dripping out of all my pores.
Wiktionarythe pores of a rock.
WiktionaryUnder certain conditions tangential sections indicate that the zoœcial walls and the intermural space are seemingly pierced by communication pores or connecting foramina.
WiktionaryYet 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.
WiktionaryExperts will now pore over the fine print of the contract.
Tatoeba · #1200437In lab experiments, when researchers blocked that pore the parasite stopped growing and eventually died.
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