Porous vs Pores - What's the difference?
porous | pores |
Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.
(Of legislation) full of loopholes
(figuratively) With many gaps.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=May 14
, author=Peter Scrivener
, title=Sunderland 1 - 3 Wolverhampton
, work=BBC Sport
* {{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.}}
(pore)
As an adjective porous
is full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.As a noun pores is
.As a verb pores is
(pore).porous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Sponges are porous so they can filter water while trapping food.
- Concrete is porous , so water will slowly filter through it.
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