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Perforated vs Pores - What's the difference?

perforated | pores |

As verbs the difference between perforated and pores

is that perforated is past tense of perforate while pores is third-person singular of pore.

As an adjective perforated

is pierced with holes.

As a noun pores is

plural of lang=en.

perforated

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Pierced with holes.
  • Specifically , having a series of holes enabling easy tearing along a straight line.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (perforate)
  • pores

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1879 , title=The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph
  • , author=Th Du Moncel , page=166 , publisher=Harper , passage=He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.}}

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pore)
  • Anagrams

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