Definition of Pores

1. Noun. (plural of pore) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of pore) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pores

1. pore [v] - See also: pore

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pores

porcupine provision
porcupine puffer
porcupine puffers
porcupinefish
porcupines
pore
pore fungus
pore mushroom
pore over
pore space
pore spaces
poreblind
pored
porer
porers
pores (current term)
porewater
porewaters
porfimer sodium
porge
porged
porges
porgie
porgies
porging
porgy
porier
poriest
porifer
poriferal

Literary usage of Pores

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"This is in accordance with the density values given in Table I. For while lead sulphate is formed in the. pores of both plates, the consequent expansions ..."

2. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1915)
"While it is common to find one or more pores at the proximal end of a tibia, many of these segments are entirely devoid of olfactory pores. ..."

3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1915)
"One of smallest pores from tibia of female of Formica. Fig. 8.—Two pores from group No. 2 on front wing of female of Formica. Fig. 10.—Two pores from group ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"SCIENCE. respect to the number of anal plates and genital pores. ... The number of pores in the genital plates is also subject to variation, which occurs in ..."

5. Engineering Geology: By Heinrich Ries and Thomas L. Watson by Heinrich Ries, Thomas Leonard Watson (1914)
"Character of pores. — It has already been pointed out that the pores of a rock may be either large or small. To this should be added that they may be ..."

6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"I had expected the anal pores, the youngest onto- genetically, to vary quite closely with the length of the animal, the fewer pores on the shorter animal ..."

7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1872)
"Observations on Water in Frost Rising against Gravity rather than Freezing in the pores of Moist Earth. By Professor JAMES THOMSON, LL. ..."

8. The Sun by Amédée Guillemin (1875)
"The more obscure portions to which we allude have been capiva pores or lucides ... The only difference appears to be that the pores in the penumbra are much ..."

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