Definitions
direct one's attention on something
Word origin
From Middle English pore, from Old French pore, from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”). Displaced native English sweat hole from Middle English swet hole, which might have been a reformation of Old English swātþȳrel (literally “sweat hole”), which competed with līcþēote (literally “body pipe”).
Used in a sentence
“I could sense the sweat dripping out of all my pores.”
“the pores of a rock.”
“Under certain conditions tangential sections indicate that the zoœcial walls and the intermural space are seemingly pierced by communication pores or connecting foramina.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Tiny skin opening”4 letters
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