tore

See also Tore, töre, and -tore

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: tô(r), IPA: /tɔː(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /tO:(r\)/
• (US) enPR: tôr, IPA: /toʊɹ/, /tɔːɹ/, X-SAMPA: /toUr\/, /tO:r/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tor, tore, toor, from Old Norse tor- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”, prefix), from Proto-Germanic *tuz- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *dus- (“bad, ill, difficult”), from Proto-Indo-European *dēwǝ- (“to fail, be behind, be lacking”). Cognate with Old High German zur- (“mis-”, prefix), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌶- (tuz-, “hard, difficult”, prefix), Ancient Greek δυσ- (dys-, “bad, ill, difficult”, prefix). More at dys-.

Alternative forms

• tor

Adjective

tore (comparative more tore, superlative most tore)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
2. (dialectal or obsolete) Strong, sturdy; great, massive.
3. (dialectal or obsolete) Full; rich.

Derived terms

• torely

Etymology 2

Verb

tore

1. Simple past of tear (rip, rend, speed).

Usage notes

• The past tense of the tear, meaning "produce liquid from the eyes", is teared.

Etymology 3

See torus.

Noun

tore (plural tores)

1. (architecture) Alternative form of torus.
2. (geometry) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
3. The solid enclosed by such a surface; an anchor ring.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• rote

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Estonian

Adjective

tore (genitive toreda, partitive toredat)

1. fine, splendid

Declension

This Estonian adjective needs an inflection-table template.

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French

tore

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɔʁ/

Etymology

Latin torus.

Noun

tore m (plural tores)

1. (geometry) torus

Derived terms

• torique

External links

• Tore on the French Wikipedia.fr.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ôter, rote, roté

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Latin

Noun

tore

1. vocative singular of torus

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Ngarrindjeri

Noun

tore

1. mouth