gore
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Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
sostantivo
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Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
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obsoletoA gout or mass of such blood.
And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood.
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Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.
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Pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.
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Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.
Etimologia
From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”). Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (“intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt earth”).
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obsoletoTo cover or smear with blood.
verbo
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To pierce with a horn or tusk.
The bull gored the matador.
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obsoletoTo pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.
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figuratoTo needle or wound the feelings of.
Etimologia
From Middle English goren, from gore (“gore”), ultimately from Old English gār (“spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoysós. Related to gar and gore (“a projecting point”).
sostantivo
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A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
I have a number of these, but this gentleman up in the gore just below the arrow was traveling in the fast lane of 495.
With the addition of pavement marking arrows, erratic maneuvers such as lane changes through the gore and attempted lane changes decreased.
Unfortunately, there will be situations where placement of a major obstruction in a gore is unavoidable.
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arcaicoA triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.
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A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
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The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, or an equivalent section of a spherical or dome-shaped object in general.
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A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.
Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
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An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
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A projecting point.
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A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.
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A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.
Etimologia
From Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English gāra, from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.
verbo
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To cut into a triangular form.
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To provide with a gore.
to gore an apron
Forme
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- passato
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- participio passato
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- participio presente
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- 3ª persona singolare
- gores
gore · Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
Gore · A surname.gorge · The throat of a flower.Gorge · A male given name.