Pore
noun
A tiny hole in a surface, often your skin, that lets things such as liquids pass through.
The cream is absorbed through the pores of your skin.
Often appears as...
- large pores
- tight pores
verb
To look at or read something very carefully for a long time.
She pored over her notes for the exam.
Often appears as...
- pore over notes
- pore over details
noun
A tiny hole in a surface, often your skin, that lets things such as liquids pass through.
The cream is absorbed through the pores of your skin.
Often appears as...
- large pores
- tight pores
verb
To look at or read something very carefully for a long time.
She pored over her notes for the exam.
Often appears as...
- pore over notes
- pore over details
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Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Picture small openings on surfaces to understand 'pore' as a noun.
Microscopes reveal the pores in a leaf.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Skin
'Pore' can refer to any tiny opening, not only on human skin.
The porous rock had water streaming through its pores.
Pro Tip 3/3Breathability
'Pore' conveys breathability in materials like fabric.
The jacket's fabric has pores to allow sweat to evaporate.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Picture small openings on surfaces to understand 'pore' as a noun.
Microscopes reveal the pores in a leaf.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Skin
'Pore' can refer to any tiny opening, not only on human skin.
The porous rock had water streaming through its pores.
Pro Tip 3/3Breathability
'Pore' conveys breathability in materials like fabric.
The jacket's fabric has pores to allow sweat to evaporate.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Picture small openings on surfaces to understand 'pore' as a noun.
Microscopes reveal the pores in a leaf.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Skin
'Pore' can refer to any tiny opening, not only on human skin.
The porous rock had water streaming through its pores.
Pro Tip 3/3Breathability
'Pore' conveys breathability in materials like fabric.
The jacket's fabric has pores to allow sweat to evaporate.
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Where good ideas come...
when they were talking to colleagues at the watercooler And he recorded all these conversations and tried to figure out where the most important ideas happened. And when we think about the classic image of the scientist in the lab, we have this image -- you know, they're poring over the microscope, and they see something in the tissue sample,
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Top 5 Animal Adaptations...
largest millipede species in the world they can grow up to around 12 inches long and live between five to seven years in the wild and they have around three to four hundred legs with four per body segment and they don't breathe through lungs like you and I instead they have these tiny pore like
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Human-Looking Faces on...
I want to make sure you can read the skin as pores and oils like we read our own skin it's really important that I'm using the animals facial skin back over its face just transformed I want to leave as much animal miss on the face using all the patterns and
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How do we separate the...
a process that separates water's ingredients by size. A membrane with pores bigger than water particles, but smaller than salt particles, only lets fresh water pass through, transforming what was once undrinkable into a life saver.
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The evolution of tech in...
every pore the moisture you see the depth in the iris of his eye these photographs can be blown up to be the size of a wall and lose virtually nothing with them another characteristic is that there's no depth of field so his
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Best Tiger Cub Moments...
already bad enough are you ready kinda to help so these are gonna be the little canvases that we uh get their uh a little pores on i'm thinking fifty dollars for report
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Nature's First Line of...
microbes might get inside the egg through its pores and consume the developing embryo within but the eggs have a special protection it's known as sam sam
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BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
a large pores give an excellent grip and that long tail helps her balance
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A Collection Of Autumn...
a large pores give an excellent grip and that long tail helps her balance
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Best Wild Animal Chases...
a large pores give an excellent grip and that long tail helps her balance
Video examples
Where good ideas come...
when they were talking to colleagues at the watercooler And he recorded all these conversations and tried to figure out where the most important ideas happened. And when we think about the classic image of the scientist in the lab, we have this image -- you know, they're poring over the microscope, and they see something in the tissue sample,
Video examples
Top 5 Animal Adaptations...
largest millipede species in the world they can grow up to around 12 inches long and live between five to seven years in the wild and they have around three to four hundred legs with four per body segment and they don't breathe through lungs like you and I instead they have these tiny pore like
Video examples
Human-Looking Faces on...
I want to make sure you can read the skin as pores and oils like we read our own skin it's really important that I'm using the animals facial skin back over its face just transformed I want to leave as much animal miss on the face using all the patterns and
Video examples
How do we separate the...
a process that separates water's ingredients by size. A membrane with pores bigger than water particles, but smaller than salt particles, only lets fresh water pass through, transforming what was once undrinkable into a life saver.
Video examples
The evolution of tech in...
every pore the moisture you see the depth in the iris of his eye these photographs can be blown up to be the size of a wall and lose virtually nothing with them another characteristic is that there's no depth of field so his
Video examples
Best Tiger Cub Moments...
already bad enough are you ready kinda to help so these are gonna be the little canvases that we uh get their uh a little pores on i'm thinking fifty dollars for report
Video examples
Nature's First Line of...
microbes might get inside the egg through its pores and consume the developing embryo within but the eggs have a special protection it's known as sam sam
Video examples
BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
a large pores give an excellent grip and that long tail helps her balance
Video examples
A Collection Of Autumn...
a large pores give an excellent grip and that long tail helps her balance
Video examples
Best Wild Animal Chases...
a large pores give an excellent grip and that long tail helps her balance
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Nathan Myhrvold
American Businessman
New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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Michael Moschen
American Entertainer
I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.
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Kyle Hill
American Author
It could be the case that all the studies supporting a warming planet are wrong; science always leaves that door open, but anthropogenic climate change remains the best explanation for a mountain of data that scientists have been poring over for a century.
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Anna Wintour
English Editor
I'm very good at delegating - people work much better when they have a real sense of responsibility. But at the same time, I don't like surprises. I don't pore over every shoot, but I do like to be aware at all times of what's going on.
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Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
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Howard Bloom
American Author
Nearly every tribe and nearly every human being has gods. Belief in gods is all over the place. It's universal. It squeaks and squoozes from every pore of humanity.
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Yvette Nicole Brown
American Actress
It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.
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James Clapper
American Public Servant
What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.
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Lesley Manville
English Actress
The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.
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John King
American Journalist
I always joke that a makeup-free day is good for the pores.
Quote examples
Nathan Myhrvold
American Businessman
New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
Quote examples
Michael Moschen
American Entertainer
I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.
Quote examples
Kyle Hill
American Author
It could be the case that all the studies supporting a warming planet are wrong; science always leaves that door open, but anthropogenic climate change remains the best explanation for a mountain of data that scientists have been poring over for a century.
Quote examples
Anna Wintour
English Editor
I'm very good at delegating - people work much better when they have a real sense of responsibility. But at the same time, I don't like surprises. I don't pore over every shoot, but I do like to be aware at all times of what's going on.
Quote examples
Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Quote examples
Howard Bloom
American Author
Nearly every tribe and nearly every human being has gods. Belief in gods is all over the place. It's universal. It squeaks and squoozes from every pore of humanity.
Quote examples
Yvette Nicole Brown
American Actress
It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.
Quote examples
James Clapper
American Public Servant
What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.
Quote examples
Lesley Manville
English Actress
The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.
Quote examples
John King
American Journalist
I always joke that a makeup-free day is good for the pores.
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