Pore vs Speculate - What's the difference?
pore | speculate |
A tiny opening in the skin.
By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many or allowing passage of a fluid.
to study meticulously; to go over again and again.
to meditate or reflect in a steady way.
To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.
* Hawthorne
To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (intransitive, business, finance) To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble.
As a noun pore
is fear, dread.As a verb speculate is
to think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.pore
English
(wikipedia pore)Etymology 1
From (etyl) pouren, from (etyl), from (etyl) porus, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) poren, pouren, . See (l).Verb
(por)Derived terms
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English
Verb
(speculat)- It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}