English-Thai Dictionary

porous

ADJ ที่ มี รู พรุน  permeable pervious penetrable ti-me-ru-prun

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

POROUS

a.[from pore. ] Having interstices in the skin or substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; as a porous skin; porous wood; porous earth.

 

POROUSNESS

n.The quality of having pores, porosity; as the porousness of the skin of an animal, or of wood, or of fossils. 1. The porous parts. [Not authorized. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

POROUS

Por "ous, a. Etym: [Cf. F. poreux. See Pore, n.]

 

Defn: 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. "The veins of porous earth. " Milton.

 

POROUSLY

POROUSLY Por "ous *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a porous manner.

 

POROUSNESS

POROUSNESS Por "ous *ness, n.

 

1. The quality of being porous.

 

2. The open parts; the interstices of anything. [R.] They will forcibly get into the porousness of it. Sir K. Digby.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

porous

po rous |ˈpôrəs ˈpɔrəs | ▶adjective (of a rock or other material ) having minute spaces or holes through which liquid or air may pass. • not retentive or secure: he ran through a porous defense to score easily. DERIVATIVES po ros i ty |pəˈräsətē, pôrˈäs - |noun, po rous ness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French poreux, based on Latin porus ‘pore. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

porous

por ¦ous |ˈpɔːrəs | ▶adjective (of a rock or other material ) having minute interstices through which liquid or air may pass. • not retentive or secure: he ran through a porous home defence to score easily. DERIVATIVES porosity |pɔːˈrɒsɪti |noun porousness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French poreux, based on Latin porus ‘pore ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

porous

porous adjective porous fibers: permeable, penetrable, pervious, cellular, holey; absorbent, absorptive, spongy. ANTONYMS impermeable.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

porous

porous adjective permeable, penetrable, pervious; absorbent, sponge-like, spongy, sieve-like, leaky, honeycombed, cellular, open, holey; technical absorptive; rare percolative, cavernulous, leachy, porose, poriferous, spongiose, foraminous, pory. ANTONYMS impermeable.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

porous

po rous /pɔ́ːrəs /形容詞 ｟主にかたい書 ｠1 〈物 物質などが 〉通水 [通気 ]性の .2 〈物質 (の表面 )などが 〉多孔性の ; ｟比喩的に ｠〈法律などが 〉抜け道の多い ; 〈記憶などが 〉忘れやすい .～ness 名詞