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单词 pore
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pore
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1n 2v

That trickle of sweat didn't just miraculously appear — it was secreted out of a pore, a really tiny opening on the surface of your skin.
When used as a noun, pore means any tiny hole or opening that allows the passage of liquid. In humans, pores are the little holes that bring us such pleasures as armpit sweat and, when clogged, pimples. But when used as a verb, to pore means to concentrate your attention on or devote hours of focus to something: like poring over the overwhelming choices in the antiperspirant aisle.
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pore / pour

A pore is small opening in a surface that lets stuff through. To pour, on the other hand, means to flow continuously and rapidly.

A pore is a little hole in a surface that lets gases, liquids, and microscopic elements through. The surface might be your skin (think of all those clogged pores suffered through in teen years) or something else, like a filter:

With the sweat starting from every pore he essayed a few more steps, stumbled, and in clumsily catching his balance, his hat fell off. (James Beardsley)

Solid bodies are not absolutely so, all undoubtedly containing pores, or spaces void of matter. (Thomas P. Jones)

As a verb, to pore is used with through or over and means that you are absorbed in the study of something or that you are reading something intensely. For example:

He spent more than 10 hours on the manuscript, poring over the details and asking faculty members for advice. (Nature)

Meanwhile, players pore over Polaroid photographs during breaks or wait as officials measure out first downs using sticks attached to chains. (New York Times)

On the other hand, to pour is to flow, like when you pour yourself a glass of water while it pours down rain.Usually an inanimate object is poured, but people can pour, too:

The donations began pouring in on Thursday, many of them delivered electronically and accompanied by politically tinged comments. (New York Times)

Within seconds, other heavily armed cops are pouring out the car, guns drawn, to surround the now disabled jet. (Time)

So her group and others are pouring energy into training mounted riders to fend off wolves. (New York Times)

After you pore over the difference between these words, pour yourself a glass of lemonade and say, "This one's for U!"

WORD FAMILY
pore: pored, pores, poring, porous+/porosity: porosities/porous: nonporous, porosity, porousness
USAGE EXAMPLES
While she and Harriet played, the grandfather, with other reading material banned, sat in a corner rocking chair poring over the children’s books.
New York Times(Jan 12, 2012)
Poring over the books was a little like bellying up to the oyster bar with the two writers.
Wall Street Journal(Dec 28, 2016)
They pored over forensic evidence and GPS data as they sought to retrace the steps of the runaway attacker.
Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016)
1
1n any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)
Hyper
hole
an unoccupied space
2n any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal
Hypo|Hyper
ostiole
a small pore especially one in the reproductive bodies of certain algae and fungi through which spores pass
canal, channel, duct, epithelial duct
a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
3n a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
stoma, stomate
germ pore
a pore in the outer wall of a spore or pollen grain through which the germ tube or pollen tube makes its exit on germination
hydathode, water pore, water stoma
a pore that exudes water on the surface or margin of a leaf of higher plants
lenticel
one of many raised pores on the stems of woody plants that allow the interchange of gas between the atmosphere and the interior tissue
aperture
a natural opening in something
2
v direct one's attention on something
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
center, centre, concentrate, focus, rivet
rivet
hold (someone's attention)
absorb, engross, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep
devote (oneself) fully to
recall
cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression
think
focus one's attention on a certain state
zoom in
examine closely; focus one's attention on
hear, listen, take heed
listen and pay attention
drink, drink in
be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to
incline
bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well
cerebrate, cogitate, think
use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
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