poor vs pore vs pour
Definitions
adjective
- characterized by or indicating poverty
- having little money or few possessions
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- deserving or inciting pity
- lacking in quality or substances
noun
- people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
Examples
The poor bugger has nowhere else to sleep.
Dance the coxswain was the first affected in that way, but after a few moments Mark felt that the poor fellow had been suffering in
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
Definitions
verb
- direct one's attention on something
noun
- any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)
- any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal
- a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass
Examples
Your pores should appear minimised and your face will feel smooth.
Singapore has many native species of palm.
Open pores are more affected by rubbing or abrasion, causing these fabrics to wear out sooner.
Definitions
verb
- supply in large amounts or quantities
- move in large numbers
- flow in a spurt
- pour out
- rain heavily
Examples
A couple of weeks ago, while glassing four female Meneliks bushbuck two hundred yards away feeding in a tiny clearing during a pouring rain, a nice male stepped into view.
A liquor pour cost of 18.3%, for example, means that it cost a little more than 18 cents to generate a dollar of liquor sales.
(Not to be confused with what we call cookies)To serve Devon, or Cornwall clotted cream would desecrate a good southern biscuit (and be a waste of the cream really, I prefer it on saffron buns)a bit of plain cream, fresh butter, and cane syrup poured over a hot biscuit is ambrosia.
