Meaning

14 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.

    Blut, geronnenes Blut

    кровь, кровоподтёкkrovopodtjók

    загусла кровzahusla krov

    coagulated blood from a wound

  2. (uncountable, usually)Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.

  3. (uncountable, usually)Pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.

  4. (uncountable, usually)Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.

  5. A triangular piece of land where roads meet.

  6. (US)A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.

  7. 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.

  8. A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.

    Gehre, Zwickel

  9. An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.

  10. A projecting point.

  11. 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.

  12. A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.

Examples

15 sentences
  1. Don't let the bull gore you.

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  2. My skirt has gores to make it fuller.

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  3. It's awful when a bull gores one of the runners.

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  4. The man was gored by the sheep in the stable.

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  5. The woman was gored by the sheep in the stable.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
thick blood:
Русский
By meaning 1
thick blood:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
thick blood:
triangular patch of fabric:

Origin

From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, f

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”).

From Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English gāra, from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.

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Forms

plural: gores
Singulargore
Pluralgores

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
triangular piece of land where roads meet:neutral areaghost island
Close in meaning
  • a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails:panel
  • Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948):Al GoreAlbert Gore Jr.
  • the shedding of blood resulting in murder:bloodshed

Word family

13 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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