Gore vs Gork - What's the difference?
gore | gork |
Dirt, filth.
(senseid)Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
Murder, bloodshed, violence.
(of an animal) To pierce with the horns.
A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.
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An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
A projecting point.
(heraldry) One of the abatements, made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.
To cut in a triangular form.
To provide with a gore.
A terminal patient whose brain is nonfunctional and the rest of whose body can be kept functioning only by the extensive use of mechanical devices and nutrient solutions.
A stuporous or imbecilic patient; a patient who has lost brain function.
(label) A despised person; dork, geek, jerk.
As a proper noun gore
is .As a noun gork is
a terminal patient whose brain is nonfunctional and the rest of whose body can be kept functioning only by the extensive use of mechanical devices and nutrient solutions.As a verb gork is
to sedate a patient heavily.gore
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(-)- (Bishop Fisher)
Derived terms
*Etymology 2
Probably from .Verb
(gor)- The bull gored the matador.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Cowell)
- 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.
Verb
(gor)- to gore an apron