Meaning of Gore | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
2. Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
   uncountable, usually
3. A surname.
4. A triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.
   archaic, dialectal
5. A male given name transferred from the surname.
6. A gout or mass of such blood.
   countable, obsolete, usually
7. A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
   US
8. A place name:
9. A town in eastern Southland, New Zealand, situated on the Mataura River and named after Thomas Gore Browne.
10. Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
    uncountable, usually
11. The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, or an equivalent section of a spherical or dome-shaped object in general.ᵂᵖ
12. A territorial authority in Southland, New Zealand, that includes the town; in full, Gore District.
13. Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
    uncountable, usually
14. A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.
15. A small town in Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia, named after St George Richard Gore.
16. An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
17. Gore Water, a minor tributary in Scotland which flows through Gorebridge to the River South Esk.
18. A projecting point.
19. A rural community in Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada, named after Charles Stephen Gore.
20. A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.
21. A township municipality in Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada, named after Francis Gore.
22. A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.
23. A number of places in the United States:
24. An unincorporated community in Chattooga County, Georgia.
25. A township in Huron County, Michigan.
26. An unincorporated community in Warren County, Missouri.
27. An unincorporated community in Hocking County, Ohio.
28. A town in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, named after Thomas Gore.
29. An unincorporated community in Frederick County, Virginia.

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Examples

“And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood.”

“The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.”

“As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.”

“I have a number of these, but this gentleman up in the gore just below the arrow was traveling in the fast lane of 495.”

“With the addition of pavement marking arrows, erratic maneuvers such as lane changes through the gore and attempted lane changes decreased.”

“Unfortunately, there will be situations where placement of a major obstruction in a gore is unavoidable.”

“Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.”

“Al Gore was the 45th Vice-President of the United States.”

“This means Gore will have to stop dancing away from the question as if the pardon decision were somehow shared with the pardonee.”

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