What is the meaning of PORO. Phrases containing PORO
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Heroin plus PCP (phencyclidine)
n checking account. The bank account into which you deposit your salary, only to have it seep away gently through the porous floor of the bank.
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To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth.
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Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood.
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Porous; as, pory stone. [R.] Dryden.
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Resembling a sponge; soft and porous; porous.
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Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like.
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Admitting the passage of light; open; porous; as, a transparent veil.
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To become less dense; to become thin and porous.
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In a porous manner.
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A glucoside extracted from squill (Scilla) as a light porous substance.
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The quality or state of being porous; -- opposed to density.
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The passing of gases through fine tubes, porous substances, or the like; as, transpiration through membranes.
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To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.
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Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil.
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The colorless porous framework, or stroma, of red blood corpuscles from which the zooid, or hemoglobin and other substances of the corpuscles, may be dissolved out.
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An instrument for determining the specific gravity of liquid bodies, porous bodies, and powders, as well as solids.
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To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense.
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A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone.
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The quality of being porous.
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