Other forms: pores
A pore is one of the tiny openings in the skin. Clogged pores, large pores, pores on the nose.
Their size is largely inherited and nothing closes them — cold water and toners make them look smaller by tightening the surrounding skin, briefly. What blocks them is oil and dead cells, so cleansing is the real answer. Note the verb pore over, meaning to study closely, which is a completely different word.
1nounporeOne of the tiny openings in the skin.
“When you exercise, sweat leaves your body through millions of tiny pores.”
pore is a small opening.
Old French pore comes from Latin porus, from Greek poros, a passage. Emporium and porous come from the same passage.
Proto-Indo-European
*per-
Ancient Greek
πόρος — passage
Latin
porus
Old French
pore
Middle English
pore
English, today
pore
From Middle English pore, from Old French pore, from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (“passage”). Displaced native sweat hole from swet hole, which might have been a reformation of swātþȳrel, which competed with līcþēote literally “body pipe”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA