More vs Gore - What's the difference?
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(senseid) Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
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To root up.
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.
As nouns the difference between more and gore
is that more is a carrot; a parsnip while gore is dirt, filth.As verbs the difference between more and gore
is that more is to root up while gore is to pierce with the horns.As proper nouns the difference between more and gore
is that more is the Volta-Congo language of the Mossi people, mainly spoken in part of Burkina Faso while Gore is {{surname|lang=en}.As a determiner more
is Comparative form of many: in greater number. Used for a discrete quantity.As an adverb more
is to a greater degree or extent.more
English
(wikipedia more)Etymology 1
From (etyl) more, from (etyl) .Determiner
(en determiner)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
Adverb
(-)Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
- Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more .
Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
Derived terms
* more or less * more so * less is moreSee also
* mostEtymology 2
From (etyl) more, ). More at (l).Etymology 3
From (etyl) moren, from the noun. See above.Verb
(mor)Statistics
*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
