pore

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pore1 /pɔː $ pɔːr/ noun [countableC] → paw, pour, poor

1.HBHone of the small holes in your skin that liquid, especially sweat, can pass through, or a similar hole in the surface of a plant 〔皮肤的〕毛孔；〔植物表面的〕气孔，细孔

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pore• The neurotransmitter sticks to the receptor molecule, and together they are able to open a pore in the cell membrane.• There is one large pointed slightly rugose tentacle scale on each pore.• The adrenalin was amazing, the buzz palpable, the girls so close I could see every pore.• Every pore of his skin felt aware, as sensitive as it did after the luxury of a hot bath.• The first tentacle pore lacks are accompanying spine, the second to fourth have only one spine subsequent pores have two.• The second oral tentacle pore emerges superficially.• The tentacle pores are large and armed with two rounded or slightly elliptical tentacle scales.

pore2 verb

1 pore over something phrasal verbphr v READLOOK ATto read or look at something very carefully for a long time 仔细阅读；凝视，注视

She was poring over a book.

她在专心阅读一本书。

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pore over • Chiodini was poring over a sports paper.• Aunt Bella sat at the table, poring over catalogues, surveying the accounts, calculating.• Chapter Two Sam McCready spent most of the next day, Monday, poring over large-scale maps and photographs.• Ted said one day, poring over maps and guidebooks.• Most evenings, my father will sit in his easy chair and pore over one issue or another of National Geographic.• I pore over the hopeless, resigned faces, the emaciated bodies, the stick-like limbs.• I collect them, pore over them, plan vacations by them, even wrap Christmas presents in them.• The two were poring over them when Simon came into the room.

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pore• Aunt Bella sat at the table, poring over catalogues, surveying the accounts, calculating.• But the specimen he was now poring over held little mystery.• Ted said one day, poring over maps and guidebooks.• When Evan began poring over submarine books, we put them in a special basket near the living room sofa.• Amelia carried a plate of eggs and toast over to a man sitting in the back, poring through a newspaper.

Origin pore1

(1300-1400) Old French Latin porus, from Greek poros “way through”

pore2

(1200-1300) Origin unknown

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