tore
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English tor, tore, toor, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse tor- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”, prefix), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *tuz- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *dus- (“bad, ill, difficult”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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- (dus-, “bad, ill, difficult”, prefix). More at dys-.
Alternative forms
Adjective
tore (comparative more tore, superlative most tore)
- (dialectal or obsolete) Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
- (dialectal or obsolete) Strong, sturdy; great, massive.
- (dialectal or obsolete) Full; rich.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
tore
Usage notes
Etymology 3
See torus.
Noun
tore (plural tores)
- (architecture) Alternative form of torus
- (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
tore (uncountable)
- The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Mortimer to this entry?)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Estonian
Adjective
tore (genitive toreda, partitive toredat, comparative toredam, superlative kõige toredam)
Declension
Declension of tore (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | tore | toredad | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | toreda | ||
genitive | toredate | ||
partitive | toredat | toredaid | |
illative | toredasse | toredatesse toredaisse | |
inessive | toredas | toredates toredais | |
elative | toredast | toredatest toredaist | |
allative | toredale | toredatele toredaile | |
adessive | toredal | toredatel toredail | |
ablative | toredalt | toredatelt toredailt | |
translative | toredaks | toredateks toredaiks | |
terminative | toredani | toredateni | |
essive | toredana | toredatena | |
abessive | toredata | toredateta | |
comitative | toredaga | toredatega |
French
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin torus.
Pronunciation
Noun
tore m (plural tores)
Derived terms
Further reading
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) tore
Ngarrindjeri
Noun
tore
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Connected to (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse Þórr (“Tor, Thor”)
Pronunciation
Noun
tore f (definite singular tora, indefinite plural torer, definite plural torene)
Derived terms
See also
- torden (Bokmål)
References
- “tore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Tagalog
Noun
tore
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