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PORE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

pore; stoma; stomate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

Sense 3

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Direct one's attention on something

Example:

Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies

Synonyms:

center; centre; concentrate; focus; pore; rivet

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

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

Credits

 Context examples: 

Substances that have holes or pores on the nanoscale, used, for example, to separate particles or molecules by size.

(Nanoporous, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The pores are visible but not large.

(Normal Skin, NCI Thesaurus)

NIC96 is a nuclear pore protein identified in yeast.

(GFP-NIC96, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is comprised of the majority of protein DEK followed by 2/3 of the C-terminal part of the nuclear pore complex protein Nup214.

(DEK/NUP214 Fusion Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in nuclear pore assembly.

(Nuclear Pore Complex Protein Nup107, NCI Thesaurus)

When CTLs are activated by recognition of specific antigen on a cell, they release perforin proteins that integrate into the membrane of the target cell and organize to form a membrane pore.

(CTL-mediated Immune Response Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Researchers used computational simulations to find a MOF with the perfect pore size to carry an siRNA molecule, and that would breakdown once inside a cell, releasing the siRNA to its target.

(Nanoparticles used to transport anti-cancer agent to cells, University of Cambridge)

Marine sponges obtain food and oxygen by filtering seawater through the pores and channels in their bodies.

(Bacteria living in marine sponge produce toxic compounds found in man-made products, NSF)

This protein is comprised of the N-terminal portion of the nuclear pore complex protein Nup214 including half of the nucleoporin GLFG repeat domain fused to the tyrosine-protein kinase ABL1 protein.

(NUP214/ABL1 310-333 kDa Fusion Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

She approached her face to the palm, and pored over it without touching it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)