What is "tore"

Tear \Tear\ (t[^a]r), v. t. [imp. Tore (t[=o]r), ((Obs. Tare) (t[^a]r); p. p. Torn (t[=o]rn); p. pr. & vb. n. Tearing.] [OE. teren, AS. teran; akin to OS. farterian to destroy, D. teren to consume, G. zerren to pull, to tear, zehren to consume, Icel. t[ae]ra, Goth. gata['i]ran to destroy, Lith. dirti to flay, Russ. drate to pull, to tear, Gr. de`rein to flay, Skr. dar to burst. [root]63. Cf. Darn, Epidermis, Tarre, Tirade.]

1. To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.

   Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator.
   --Shak.

2. Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.

3. To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.

   The hand of fate Hath torn thee from me.
   --Addison.

4. To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.

5. To move violently; to agitate. ``Once I loved torn ocean's roar.''
   --Byron.

   To tear a cat, to rant violently; to rave; -- especially applied to theatrical ranting. [Obs.]
   --Shak.

   To tear down, to demolish violently; to pull or pluck down.

   To tear off, to pull off by violence; to strip.

   To tear out, to pull or draw out by violence; as, to tear out the eyes.

   To tear up, to rip up; to remove from a fixed state by violence; as, to tear up a floor; to tear up the foundation of government or order.

Tore \Tore\, imp. of Tear.

Tore \Tore\, n. [Probably from the root of tear; cf. W. t['o]r a break, cut, t['o]ri to break, cut.] The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring. [Prov. Eng.]
--Mortimer.

Tore \Tore\, n. [See Torus.]

1. (Arch.) Same as Torus.

2. (Geom.) same as torus.

Etymology 1

1. 1 (context dialectal or obsolete English) hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious. 2 (context dialectal or obsolete English) strong, sturdy; great, massive. 3 (context dialectal or obsolete English) full; rich. alt. 1 (context dialectal or obsolete English) hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious. 2 (context dialectal or obsolete English) strong, sturdy; great, massive. 3 (context dialectal or obsolete English) full; rich. Etymology 2

   v

2. (en-simple pasttear) (rip, rend, speed). Etymology 3

   n. 1 (context architecture English) (alternative form of torus English) 2 (context geometry English) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane. 3 The solid enclosed by such a surface; an anchor ring. Etymology 4

   n. The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.

1. n. a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands; "his story brought tears to her eyes" [syn: teardrop]

2. an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" [syn: rip, rent, snag, split]

3. an occasion for excessive eating or drinking; "they went on a bust that lasted three days" [syn: bust, binge, bout]

4. the act of tearing; "he took the manuscript in both hands and gave it a mighty tear"

5. [also: torn, tore]

1. v. separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper" [syn: rupture, snap, bust]

2. to separate or be separated by force; "planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars"

3. move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" [syn: shoot, shoot down, charge, buck]

4. strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon" [syn: pluck, pull, deplume, deplumate, displume]

5. fill with tears or shed tears; "Her eyes were tearing"

6. [also: torn, tore]

n. commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column [syn: torus]

See tear

Tõre is a village in Leisi Parish, Saare County in western Estonia.

Category:Villages in Saare County

Tore is a volcano located in the northern part of the island of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Violent Pleistocene eruptions produced two ignimbrite fans stretching west to the coast, and a 6 km by 9 km caldera. A post-caldera lava cone on the caldera's southern rim is the source of lava flows. Well-preserved features suggests a recent date for this cone and a nearby ash cone.

Töre ( Kalix Language: te'or) is a locality situated in Kalix Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden with 1,099 inhabitants in 2010.

Its harbour is the northernmost of the Bothnian Bay (and thus, of the Baltic Sea) that is accessible to commercial vessels. The European route E10 passes through Töre.

Tore is a Scandinavian given name.

Tore may also refer to:

Places:

• Tõre, Estonia, a village
• Tore, Scotland, a village
• Töre, Sweden, a locality
• Töre River, Sweden
• Tore (volcano), Papua New Guinea

Other:

• Tore (clan) ( :ru:Торе ) - direct descendants of Genghis Khan in central Asia
• Elihan Tore (1885–1976), President of the Second East Turkistan Republic
• Gökhan Töre (born 1992), Turkish footballer
• Tore Station, a railway station in Latvia