PORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pore mean? 

• PORE (noun)
  The noun PORE has 3 senses:

1. any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)

2. any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal

3. a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass

  Familiarity information: PORE used as a noun is uncommon.

• PORE (verb)
  The verb PORE has 1 sense:

1. direct one's attention on something

  Familiarity information: PORE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("pore" is a kind of...):

hole (an unoccupied space)

Derivation:

poriferous (full of pores or vessels or holes)

porous (allowing passage in and out)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("pore" is a kind of...):

canal; channel; duct; epithelial duct (a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pore"):

ostiole (a small pore especially one in the reproductive bodies of certain algae and fungi through which spores pass)

Holonyms ("pore" is a part of...):

cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)

Derivation:

poriferous; porous (full of pores or vessels or holes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

pore; stoma; stomate

Hypernyms ("pore" is a kind of...):

aperture (a natural opening in something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pore"):

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)

• PORE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pore    ... he / she / it pores   
Past simple: pored   
Past participle: pored   
-ing form: poring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Direct one's attention on something

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

center; centre; concentrate; focus; pore; rivet

Context example:

Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies

Hypernyms (to "pore" is one way to...):

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)

Verb group:

rivet (hold (someone's attention))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pore"):

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)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s on something

 Context examples 

This gene is involved in the assembly of the nuclear pore complex.

(NUP107 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

The pDox was loaded into the particles through nanometer-sized pores.

(Injectable nanoparticles deliver cancer therapy in mice, NIH)

It is caused in some cases by mutations in the AAAS gene on chromosome 12 which encodes the ALADIN protein of nuclear pore complexes.

(Allgrove Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes nuclear pore complex protein Nup107, plays a role in nuclear transport.

(NUP107 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Without enough calcium, plants can't close these pores, and their water use increases.

(Previously unknown mechanism causes increased forest water use, National Science Foundation)

This protein is comprised of approximately half of the nuclear pore complex protein Nup214, which does not include the nucleoporin GLFG repeat domain, fused to the tyrosine-protein kinase ABL1 protein.

(NUP214/ABL1 239 kDa Fusion Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes nuclear pore complex protein Nup214, plays a role in the regulation of nucleocytoplasmic transport and receptor-mediated nuclear import.

(NUP214 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The ultimate result in either pathway is the creation of the membrane attack complex, a large pore in the cell membrane that results in cell lysis.

(Alternative Complement Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Proteins that form the structure of the nuclear pore.

(Nucleoporin, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

For exchange of material, for example, proteins and mRNA, it is punctured with numerous nuclear pores.

(Nuclear Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)