Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Admitting the passage of gas or liquid through pores or interstices.
- adjective Easily crossed or penetrated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having pores; porose; pervious by means of minute interstices.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Full of tiny
pores that allowfluids orgasses to pass through. - adjective full of
loopholes - adjective figuratively With many
gaps .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective able to absorb fluids
- adjective full of pores or vessels or holes
- adjective allowing passage in and out
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Clearly, there was an interview published in the "New York Times" today with the new defense minister of the newly formed Afghanistan government, where he said that Osama bin Laden is definitely in Tora Bora and he went on to tell these reporters that not only can he find hiding places in this very complicated maze structure, but that if he felt too much pressure from the United States, it would make easy access to what they described as the porous border with Pakistan.
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They find a nice comfy nesting place in porous materials like woods. anna Says:
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SpongeBob, as his song goes, "lives in a pineapple under the sea/absorbent and yellow and porous is he!"
January 2005 2005
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SpongeBush lives in a bubble in D.C./absorbent and shallow and porous is he!
January 2005 2005
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The technology is the advancement of the Quantum technology based on the magnetic quantum-optical phenomenon in porous silicon, says Atom Chip.
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The walls between Blake's fiction and reality remain porous as characters
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Like the current Norton and Longman anthologies, the Broadview is "porous"--that is, multimedia.
Anthologizing 2007
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Like the current Norton and Longman anthologies, the Broadview is "porous"--that is, multimedia.
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Campbell points out that he's a fast healer, which was evident during his years with the Washington Redskins when he was playing behind what charitably can be described as a porous offensive line.
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Mine have long been porous, which is a generous way of admitting that my lines between myself and others, in family and even more so at work, have been fuzzy.
brandonpepin commented on the word porous
Filled with holes, IE as in pores. See sponge
December 7, 2006