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Tore vs Tor - What's the difference?

tore | tor |

Tor is a alternative form of tore.

Tor is a related term of tore.



As adjectives the difference between tore and tor

is that tore is hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious while tor is alternative form of lang=en ("hard, difficult; strong; rich").

As nouns the difference between tore and tor

is that tore is alternative form of lang=en while tor is a craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill.

As a verb tore

is simple past of tear (rip, rend, speed).

As an initialism TOR is

Terms of reference

As a proper noun Tor is

abbreviation of Toronto|lang=en.

tore

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).

Alternative forms

* (l)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) Strong, sturdy; great, massive.
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) Full; rich.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tear) (rip, rend, speed).
    • Usage notes
    * The past tense of the other verb (tear), meaning "produce liquid from the eyes", is (teared).

    Etymology 3

    See torus.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture)
  • (geometry) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
  • The solid enclosed by such a surface; an anchor ring.

    • Etymology 4

    Probably from the root of tear; compare Welsh word for a break or cut.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
    • (Mortimer)
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * English irregular simple past forms ----

    tor

    English

    (wikipedia tor)

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en-adjective)
  • ("hard, difficult; strong; rich").

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) tor, ). It is not clear whether the Celtic forms were borrowed from Old English or vice versa. See also (tower).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill.
  • (South-West England) A hill.
  • * 1855 , Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! , Tickor and Fields (1855), pages 104-105:
    • Bursdon and Welsford were then, as now, a rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree, or anything save few and far between a world-old furze-bank which marked the common rights of some distant cattle farm, and crossed then, not as now, by a decent road, but by a rough confused trackway, the remnant of an old Roman road from Clovelly dikes to Launceston.
  • * 1902 , , Chapter 9:
    • The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.
  • * 2008 , Lydia Joyce, Shadows of the Night , Signet Eclipse (2008), ISBN 9780451223425, page 242:
    • She had slipped the letters into her pocket next to the packet of antique documents and had taken an umbrella—as the sky was ominous out over the distant tors —and strolled around the manor house and down the road toward the village.
  • (UK, dialect) A tower; a turret.
    • (Ray)

    Anagrams

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