GORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gore mean? 

• GORE (noun)
  The noun GORE has 4 senses:

1. Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948)

2. coagulated blood from a wound

3. a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails

4. the shedding of blood resulting in murder

  Familiarity information: GORE used as a noun is uncommon.

• GORE (verb)
  The verb GORE has 2 senses:

1. wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument

2. cut into gores

  Familiarity information: GORE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Al Gore; Albert Gore Jr.; Gore

Instance hypernyms:

Vice President of the United States (the vice president of the United States who presides over the United States Senate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Coagulated blood from a wound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("gore" is a kind of...):

blood (the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets)

Derivation:

gore (wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

gore; panel

Hypernyms ("gore" is a kind of...):

piece of cloth; piece of material (a separate part consisting of fabric)

Holonyms ("gore" is a part of...):

full skirt (a long skirt gathered at the waist)

gaiter (a shoe covering the ankle with elastic gores in the sides)

umbrella (a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy)

Derivation:

gore (cut into gores)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The shedding of blood resulting in murder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bloodshed; gore

Context example:

he avenged the bloodshed of his kinsmen

Hypernyms ("gore" is a kind of...):

execution; murder; slaying (unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being)

Derivation:

gore (wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument)

• GORE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they gore    ... he / she / it gores   
Past simple: gored   
Past participle: gored   
-ing form: goring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "gore" is one way to...):

pierce; thrust (penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

gore (the shedding of blood resulting in murder)

gore (coagulated blood from a wound)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cut into gores

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

gore a skirt

Hypernyms (to "gore" is one way to...):

cut; tailor (style and tailor in a certain fashion)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

gore (a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails)

 Context examples 

I must dip my hand again and again in the basin of blood and water, and wipe away the trickling gore.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The unicorn soon came towards him, and rushed directly on the tailor, as if it would gore him with its horn without more ado.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He was surely not gored by a bull?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)