tore

See also: Tore, töre, and -tore

English

Pronunciation

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- (dus-, “bad, ill, difficult”, prefix). More at dys-.

Alternative forms

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

Etymology 2

Verb

tore

  1. simple past tense of 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

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.

Etymology 4

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

Noun

tore (uncountable)

  1. The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Estonian

Adjective

tore (genitive toreda, partitive toredat)

  1. fine, splendid

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

French
tore

Etymology

Latin torus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tɔʁ/

Noun

tore m (plural tores)

  1. (geometry) torus

Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

tore

  1. vocative singular of torus

Ngarrindjeri

Noun

tore

  1. mouth

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Connected to Old Norse Þórr (“Tor, Thor”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /²tuːrə/

Noun

tore f (definite singular tora, indefinite plural torer, definite plural torene)

  1. thunder

Derived terms

See also

References

Tagalog

Noun

tore

  1. tower
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