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porous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective porous has 3 senses
- porous(s = adj.all) Array - able to absorb fluids; "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous" Derived forms noun porosity1, noun porousness1
- porous(a = adj.all) poriferous - full of pores or vessels or holes; Array Antonym: nonporous
- porous(s = adj.all) holey - allowing passage in and out; "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous" Derived form noun pore1
Derived forms noun pore2, noun porosity1
CIDE DICTIONARY
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. Milton. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
porous, adj.
1 full of pores.
2 letting through air, water, etc.
3 (of an argument, security system, etc.) leaky, admitting infiltration.
1 full of pores.
2 letting through air, water, etc.
3 (of an argument, security system, etc.) leaky, admitting infiltration.
Derivative
porosity n. porously adv. porousness n.
Etymology
ME f. OF poreux f. med.L porosus f. L porus PORE(1)
THESAURUS
porous
cribriform, excretory, exudative, leachy, leaky, oozy, penetrable, percolating, percolative, permeable, pervious, porose, runny, sievelike, spongelike, spongy, transudative, weepyROGET THESAURUS
porous
Concavity
N concavity, depression, dip, hollow, hollowness, indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus, lacuna, excavation, strip mine, trough, honeycomb, cup, basin, crater, punch bowl, cell, socket, valley, vale, dale, dell, dingle, combe, bottom, slade, strath, glade, grove, glen, cave, cavern, cove, grot, grotto, alcove, cul-de- sac, gully, arch, bay, excavator, sapper, miner, honeycomb (sponge), depressed, alveolate, calathiform, cup-shaped, dishing, favaginous, faveolate, favose, scyphiform, scyphose, concave, hollow, stove in, retiring, retreating, cavernous, porous, infundibul, infundibular, infundibuliform, funnel shaped, bell shaped, campaniform, capsular, vaulted, arched.Opening
N opening, hole, foramen, puncture, perforation, fontanel, transforation, pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole, eye of a needle, eyelet, slot, opening, aperture, apertness, hiation, yawning, oscitancy, dehiscence, patefaction, pandiculation, chasm, embrasure, window, casement, abatjour, light, sky light, fan light, lattice, bay window, bow window, oriel, dormer, lantern, outlet, inlet, vent, vomitory, embouchure, orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle, placket, portal, porch, gate, ostiary, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door, arcade, cellarway, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway, lich gate, way, path, thoroughfare, channel, passage, passageway, tube, pipe, water pipe, air pipe, vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula, adjutage, ajutage, ostium, smokestack, chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main, mine, pit, adit, shaft, gallery, alley, aisle, glade, vista, bore, caliber, pore, blind orifice, fulgurite, thundertube, porousness, porosity, sieve, cullender, colander, cribble, riddle, screen, honeycomb, apertion, perforation, piercing, terebration, empalement, pertusion, puncture, acupuncture, penetration, key, opener, master key, password, combination, passe- partout, open, perforated, perforate, wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped, oscitant, gaping, yawning, patent, tubular, cannular, fistulous, pervious, permeable, foraminous, vesicular, vasicular, porous, follicular, cribriform, honeycombed, infundibular, riddled, tubulous, tubulated, piped, tubate, opening, aperient, Int, open sesame!.
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