gore
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Definition of gore
34 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (uncountable, usually)Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
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noun
- (uncountable, usually)Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
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(countable, obsolete, usually)A gout or mass of such blood.
“And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood.”
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(uncountable, usually)Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
“The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.”
- (uncountable, usually)Pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.
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(uncountable, usually)Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
“As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.”
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A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
“I have a number of these, but this gentleman up in the gore just below the arrow was traveling in the fast lane of 495.”
“With the addition of pavement marking arrows, erratic maneuvers such as lane changes through the gore and attempted lane changes decreased.”
“Unfortunately, there will be situations where placement of a major obstruction in a gore is unavoidable.”
- (archaic, dialectal)A triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.
- (US)A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
- The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, or an equivalent section of a spherical or dome-shaped object in general.ᵂᵖ
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A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.
“Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.”
- An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
- A projecting point.
- A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.
- A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.
verb
- (obsolete, transitive)To cover or smear with blood.
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(transitive)To pierce with a horn or tusk.
“The bull gored the matador.”
- (obsolete, transitive)To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.
- (figuratively, intransitive, obsolete, transitive)To needle or wound the feelings of.
- To cut into a triangular form.
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To provide with a gore.
“to gore an apron”
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A surname.
“Al Gore was the 45th Vice-President of the United States.”
“This means Gore will have to stop dancing away from the question as if the pardon decision were somehow shared with the pardonee.”
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
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Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”). Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (“intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt earth”).
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