pore

1. 1.

   direct one's attention on something

   “Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies”

   Synonymsconcentratefocuscentercentrerivet

   Broaderthink

   Narrowersteeprecallthinkzoom inlisten

   Canada · United Kingdom

Other forms of pore

plural

pores·

past tense

pored·

present participle

poring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pore

What does pore mean?

pore means "any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pore?

pore has 1 syllable: pore. In IPA it is /ˈpɔɹ/.

What is another word for pore?

Close synonyms include stoma, stomate, concentrate, focus, center. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pore a common word?

pore is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with pore?

3 words rhyme with pore. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.