PORE
\pˈɔː], \pˈɔː], \p_ˈɔː]\
Definitions of PORE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal
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any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)
By Princeton University
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any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal
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any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.
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A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.
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To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now usually with over.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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A minute passage in the skin for the perspiration: an opening between the molecules of a body.
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To look with steady attention on: to study closely.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Anatomists have given this name to the openings at the extremities of vessels at the surface of different membranes. EXHALANT PORES have been supposed to exist in the exhalants, to transmit the fluids exhaled. - ABSORBENT PORES are employed in taking up parts that have to enter the circulation. Pores exist in the cuticle; yet Humboldt, with a powerful magnifying-glass, was unable to observe them. The pores of the skin have also been called spira'cula.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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