pore

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When the tube, commonly referred to as a pore, becomes clogged with keratin, dead cells, dirt or old oil, the bacteria starts to feed on these things and the result is a minor infection that shows up as a swollen red, pus-filled sore.

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  1. intransitive verb To read or study carefully and attentively: pored over the classified ads in search of a new job.
  2. intransitive verb To gaze intently; stare.
  3. intransitive verb To meditate deeply; ponder: pored on the matter.
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  • The slight difference in size of the four bases results in a discrete blockage of the pore, which is read as a reproducible dip in the applied current from a baseline of around 60 picoamps to anywhere from 20-40 picoamps.
  • When the tube, commonly referred to as a pore, becomes clogged with keratin, dead cells, dirt or old oil, the bacteria starts to feed on these things and the result is a minor infection that shows up as a swollen red, pus-filled sore. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • But while the strand could pass through the pore, the bead, with a 2. 8-micron diameter, was too large for the pore, which has a diameter of only 10 nanometers. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • When the pore is open, the oil is exposed to oxygen, which reacts and turns it a dark color, resulting in a blackhead. —  The Latest Scoop from StyleBakery.com
  • He sees at every pore, and has a certain gravitation toward truth. —  Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com
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  1. Middle English pouren.
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin porus, passage, from Greek poros; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also poar; from Middle English poren, pouren, prob. from Swedish dial. pora, pura, påra, work slowly and gradually, do anything slowly, Swedish purra, turn out; cf. Dutch porren, poke, stir, move, endeavor, attempt, = Middle Low German Low German purren = Danish purre, poke, stir; perhaps of Celtic origin: cf. Gaelic Irish purr, push, thrust, drive, urge. Prob. in part confused with peer, ME. piren, puren, look: see peer.
  2. from French pore = Provencal pors = Spanish Portuguese Italian poro = German porie = German pore = Swedish por = Danish pore, from Latin porus, a pore, from Greek πόρος, a pore, ford, passage, way, means, pore, fiber of the nerves, etc., from √ περ in περᾶν, pass: see fare, ford.
 

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