🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

छिद्र

Pronunciation / Transliteration: chidra

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Pores/pɔːrz/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"त्वचा के छिद्रों को साफ रखना बहुत जरूरी है।"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Tiny openings in the skin through which sweat, oils, and gases pass.

    "Cleansing your face regularly helps to keep your pores from becoming clogged with dirt and oil."
  2. 2

    Minute spaces or holes in a material or rock that allow liquids or gases to pass through.

    "The porous limestone contains countless microscopic pores that absorb rainwater rapidly."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Middle English word 'pore', stemming from the Old French 'pore', and ultimately from the ancient Greek 'poros' meaning passage, journey, or pore. Historically used in anatomy and metallurgy to describe microscopic openings or channels.

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