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Poring vs Goring - What's the difference?

poring | goring |

As a verb poring

is .

As a noun poring

is the act of one who pores.

As a proper noun goring is

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poring

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who pores.
  • * 1833 , Oliver Moore, The Staff Officer: Or, the Soldier of Fortune
    • During my porings over a volume of the former for 1794, I fell upon a paragraph which caused such a sudden perturbation in my whole appearance, as to excite the curiosity of the surgeon

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    goring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is gored.
  • * 2004 , Mark St. Amant, Committed: Confessions of a Fantasy Football Junkie (page 15)
    • The only thing that might make me play is if you get bonus points for either broken pelvises or fatal rodeo-clown gorings .

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