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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pô, IPA: /pɔː(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: pôr, IPA: /poɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: pōr, IPA: /po(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /poə/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)
• 異形同音異義語: pour; poor (pour–poor merger); paw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

語源 1

From 中期英語 pore, from Old French pore, from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”). Displaced native English sweat hole from 中期英語 swet hole, which might have been a reformation of 古期英語 swātþȳrel (literally “sweat hole”), which competed with līcþēote (literally “body pipe”).

名詞

pore (plural pores)

1. A tiny opening in the skin.

   Synonym: sweat hole

   I could sense the sweat dripping out of all my pores.

2. By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.

   the pores of a rock.

   • 1903, Ray Smith Bassler, The Structural Features of the Bryozoan Genus Homotrypa, with Descriptions of Species from the Cincinnatian Group, page 570:

     Under certain conditions tangential sections indicate that the zoœcial walls and the intermural space are seemingly pierced by communication pores or connecting foramina.

   • 1947, Walter Johnson, “The Rebirth of the Progressive Movement”, in William Allen White’s America, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, part IV (Normalcy and Reform), page 436:

     After reading White’s vitriolic language, The New York Times facetiously remarked that “Kansas is bleeding from every pore of her vocabularium. Sharp’s rifles are discharging from the well-known Emporium of White & Son, unlimited, and Bibles are closed until after election.”

派生語

関連する語

• porous

語源 2

From 中期英語 poren, pouren, puren (“to gaze intently, look closely”), from 古期英語 *pūrian, from Proto-West Germanic *pūrōn, suggested by 古期英語 spyrian (“to investigate, examine”). Akin to Saterland Frisian puurje (“to question, investigate; pry, prod”), West Frisian poarje (“to poke, prod”), 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”), 古期英語 spor (“track, trace, vestige”). Compare also 中期英語 puren, piren (“to look, peer”). See peer.

動詞

pore (third-person singular simple present pores, present participle poring, simple past and past participle pored)

1. To study meticulously; to go over again and again.
   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter X, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     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.

2. To meditate or reflect in a steady way.

派生語

アナグラム

• Pero, oper, reop, repo, rope