tore
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tô, IPA(key): /tɔː/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (General American) enPR: tôr, IPA(key): /tɔɹ/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: tōr, IPA(key): /to(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /toə/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophones: tor (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger), taw (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
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”). 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
- tor
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
- torely
Verb
tore
- simple past tense of tear (“rip, rend, speed”).
- (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of tear (“rip, rend, speed”)
- 1661, George Whitehead; Edward Burroughs, The Son of Perdition Revealed […] , London, page 39:
- […] that a Spirit came into him that did make him quake and tremble ſo exceedingly that he thought it would have tore him, &c […]
- 1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XVI, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], OCLC 959921526, page 71:
- Upon my honor, Sir, you have tore every bit of ſkin quite off the back of both my hands with your forceps, cried my uncle Toby […]
- 1999 May 11, Rick Bass, Where the Sea Used to Be, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 393:
- "Would've tore your head clean off," Dudley was bellowing. "Would've snapped it off your neck like wet toilet paper […]
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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)
- (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.
- 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, OCLC 13320837:
- the more Tore you have, the less Quantity of Hay will do
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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
- rote
Estonian
Adjective
tore (genitive toreda, partitive toredat, comparative toredam, superlative kõige toredam)
- fine, splendid
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tore | toredad |
| accusative | toreda | toredad |
| genitive | toreda | 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
From Latin torus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔʁ/
Audio (file) - Homophones: tord, tords, tores, tors, tort, torts (general), taure, taures (one pronunciation)
Noun
tore m (plural tores)
- (geometry) torus
Derived terms
- torique
Further reading
- “tore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
tore on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Anagrams
- ôter, rote, roté
Latin
Noun
tore
- vocative singular of torus
Ngarrindjeri
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
tore
- mouth
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse þora, of further back unknown origin. Cognates include Icelandic þora and Faroese tora. Some also come in their mediopassive variants, Swedish töras and Westrobothnian tåras, as does also the deponent Norwegian Nynorsk torast.
Alternative forms
- tora (a- and split infinitives)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²toː.rə/
- Homophone: tåre
Verb
tore (present tense torer or tør, past tense torde, supine tort)
- (intransitive) to dare
Related terms
- torast
See also
- tørre (Bokmål)
Etymology 2
Connected to Old Norse Þórr (“Tor, Thor”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²tuːrə/
Noun
tore f (definite singular tora, indefinite plural torer, definite plural torene)
- a thunder
Alternative forms
- tora (non-standard since 2012)
Derived terms
- torebrak
- torebye
- toredønn
- toreflo
- torelo
- toreskrell
- toreslag
- toresmell
- torestein
- torevêr
Verb
tore (present tense torar, past tense tora, past participle tora, passive infinitive torast, present participle torande, imperative tore/tor)
- (impersonal, metereology) to thunder
- (intransitive, figuratively) to rage
- Synonyms: buldre, skjenne, smelle
Alternative forms
- tora (a-infinitive)
- torna, torne (with n-infix and either infinitive)
See also
- lyn n (“lightning”)
- (noun): torden (Bokmål)
- (verb): tordne (Bokmål)
Etymology 3
From Old Norse tóra (“to live life meazelly”).
Alternative forms
- (a-infintive): torast
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²tuːrə/
Verb
tore (present tense torar, past tense tora, past participle tora, passive infinitive torast, present participle torande, imperative tore/tor)
- (intransitive, about fire) to burn weakly
References
- “tore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- erot, oret, orte, oter, rote, ròte, tore, Tore, troe
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish torre.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: to‧re
- IPA(key): /ˈtoɾe/, [ˈto.ɾe]
Noun
tore
- tower
- Synonym: banayaban
- (chess) rook
Coordinate terms
| Chess pieces in Tagalog · mga piyesa sa ahedres (layout · text) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |  |  |  |  |  |
| hari | reyna | tore | obispo/alpil | kabayo | peon |
Further reading
- “tore”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
Ternate
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈto.ɾe]
Verb
tore
- (stative) to be dried
Conjugation
| Conjugation of tore | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Inclusive | Exclusive | |||
| 1st | totore | fotore | mitore | |
| 2nd | notore | nitore | ||
| 3rd | Masculine | otore | itore, yotore† | |
| Feminine | motore | |||
| Neuter | itore | |||
| † - archaic | ||||
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh