porous
IPA: pˈɔrʌs
adjective
- Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.
- (figurative) With many gaps.
- (figurative, by extension) full of loopholes
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Examples of "porous" in Sentences
- The plant leaves are porous.
- The pouch is formed of porous paper.
- The residue is pitted and porous in appearance.
- The original form of the cell used a porous pot.
- The gold is absorbed into the porous matrix of the carbon.
- Small bubbles are generated at the surface of the porous wall.
- The porous nature of the material allows for emission of the scent.
- The porous layer is in direct contact with the conductive electrode.
- Later, the group demonstrated the biocompatibility of porous silicon.
- The matrix is sufficiently porous to be enzyme and substrate permeable.
- The walls between Blake's fiction and reality remain porous as characters
- SpongeBush lives in a bubble in D.C./absorbent and shallow and porous is he!
- They find a nice comfy nesting place in porous materials like woods. anna Says:
- Like the current Norton and Longman anthologies, the Broadview is "porous"--that is, multimedia.
- SpongeBob, as his song goes, "lives in a pineapple under the sea/absorbent and yellow and porous is he!"
- The technology is the advancement of the Quantum technology based on the magnetic quantum-optical phenomenon in porous silicon, says Atom Chip.
- Mine have long been porous, which is a generous way of admitting that my lines between myself and others, in family and even more so at work, have been fuzzy.
- Campbell points out that he's a fast healer, which was evident during his years with the Washington Redskins when he was playing behind what charitably can be described as a porous offensive line.
- Clearly, there was an interview published in the "New York Times" today with the new defense minister of the newly formed Afghanistan government, where he said that Osama bin Laden is definitely in Tora Bora and he went on to tell these reporters that not only can he find hiding places in this very complicated maze structure, but that if he felt too much pressure from the United States, it would make easy access to what they described as the porous border with Pakistan.