Usually means: Small opening in a surface.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word pore:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. pore: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pore, pore: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pore, pore: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pore: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pore: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pore, pore: Wordnik
  7. pore: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Pore: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. pore: Wiktionary
  10. pore: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pore: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pore: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pore: Dictionary.com
  14. pore (n.), pore (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pore: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pore (disambiguation), Pore (material), Pore: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pore: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pore: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pore: Rhymezone
  20. Pore (f), pore, pore (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pore: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pore: Free Dictionary
  23. pore: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pore: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pore: Health & Beauty Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pore: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Pore: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  4. -pore, pore: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PORE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. pore: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. pore: Natural History Terms
  4. PORE: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pore: Urban Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Beauty Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Pore: Beauty & Health Glossary
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See pored as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A tiny opening in the skin.
noun:  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.
verb:  To meditate or reflect in a steady way.

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