tore
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "tore"
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tô, IPA(key): /tɔː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) enPR: tôr, IPA(key): /toɹ/
- (Scotland) enPR: tōr, IPA(key): /toːɹ/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: tōr, IPA(key): /to(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /toə/, /toː/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophones: tor (horse–hoarse merger); taw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger); tour (pour–poor merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English tor, tore, toor, from Old Norse tor- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”, prefix), from Proto-Germanic *tuz- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *dus- (“bad, ill, difficult”). Cognate with Old High German zur- (“mis-”, prefix), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌶- (tuz-, “hard, difficult”, prefix), Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad, ill, difficult”, prefix). More at dys-.
Alternative forms
Adjective
tore (comparative more tore, superlative most tore)
- (dialectal or obsolete) Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
- (dialectal or obsolete) Strong, sturdy; great, massive.
- (dialectal or obsolete) Full; rich.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
tore
- simple past of tear (“rip, rend, speed”).
- (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of tear (“rip, rend, speed”)
- 1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XVI, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 71:
- Upon my honor, Sir, you have tore every bit of ſkin quite off the back of both my hands with your forceps, cried my uncle Toby […]
- 1999 May 11, Rick Bass, Where the Sea Used to Be, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 393:
- "Would've tore your head clean off," Dudley was bellowing. "Would've snapped it off your neck like wet toilet paper […]
Usage notes
Etymology 3
See torus.
Noun
tore (plural tores)
- (architecture) Alternative form of torus
- (geometry) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
- The solid enclosed by such a surface; an anchor ring.
Etymology 4
Probably from the root of tear; compare Welsh word for a break or cut.
Noun
tore (uncountable)
- The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
- 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
- the more Tore you have, the less Quantity of Hay will do
See also
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Estonian
Adjective
tore (genitive toreda, partitive toredat, comparative toredam, superlative kõige toredam)
Declension
| Declension of tore (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tore | toredad | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | toreda | ||
| genitive | toredate | ||
| partitive | toredat | toredaid | |
| illative | toredasse | toredatesse toredaisse | |
| inessive | toredas | toredates toredais | |
| elative | toredast | toredatest toredaist | |
| allative | toredale | toredatele toredaile | |
| adessive | toredal | toredatel toredail | |
| ablative | toredalt | toredatelt toredailt | |
| translative | toredaks | toredateks toredaiks | |
| terminative | toredani | toredateni | |
| essive | toredana | toredatena | |
| abessive | toredata | toredateta | |
| comitative | toredaga | toredatega | |
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tore m (plural tores)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
tore on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Anagrams
Galician
Verb
tore
- inflection of torar:
Kangean
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate to Maori turou (“come; welcome”) and Madurese atore (“please”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: to‧re
Noun
tore
Latin
Noun
tore
Maori
Ngarrindjeri
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Portuguese
Tagalog
Ternate
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