pore

Pronunciation: /pɔː(ɹ)/

The English word “pore” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

A tiny opening in the skin.
By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.

verb

To study meticulously; to go over again and again.
To meditate or reflect in a steady way.

Etymology

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

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