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单词 plore
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ploren.

Brit. /plɔː/, U.S. /plɔr/
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: explore v.
Etymology: < -plore (in explore v.): see quot. 1984.
An exhibit in a science museum which the visitor is encouraged to handle or otherwise explore; a hands-on exhibit. Cf. exploratory n. 2.
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society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > an exhibition > [noun] > exhibit > hands on exhibit
plore1984
1984 Heritage Interpretation Spring 7 The Exploratory team have coined the word ‘plore’, meaning something one explores, for one of these experiments.
1989 New Scientist 23 Dec. 79/2 The slogan ‘Science you can handle’ says it all. The ‘plores’, as the experiments are called, spread over two floors.
1999 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 2 Sept. (News section) 3 We have only had assurances that around 20 of the 250 plores will be kept.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

plorev.

Forms: Middle English ploure, Middle English plowre, 1500s plore.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French plorer; Latin plōrāre.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French plorer (late 10th cent. in Old French), plourer (c1315 in Anglo-Norman; also in Anglo-Norman as plurer, plorrer, ploure), variants of Old French, Middle French, French pleurer to shed tears, to suffer, to lament, to mourn (all late 10th cent.), or their etymon classical Latin plōrāre to wail, lament, of unknown origin.
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. To shed tears; to wail. Also transitive: to lament.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep [verb (intransitive)]
greetc725
weepc900
tearc950
plore1373
beweepc1374
to put one's finger in one's eye1447
waterc1450
lachryme1490
cryc1532
lerma1533
tricklec1540
to water one's plants1542
to show tears1553
shower1597
issuea1616
lachrymate1623
sheda1632
pipe1671
to take a pipe1671
to pipe one's eye (also eyes)?1789
twine1805
to let fall1816
whinnya1825
blub1866
slobber1875
blart1896
skrike1904
water-cart1914
1373 in M. A. Devlin Sermons of Thomas Brinton (1954) I. 113 (MED) Flatrie flourith, treuthe plourith.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 405 Plowryn or wepyn, ploro, fleo.
a1617 J. Phillips Pacient Grissill sig. F.i Helpe spoused Dames help Grissill now, hir fate wt teares to plore Gushe forth your Brinie streames let tricklinge teares abound The earth and Fyrmament aboue, fyll with your mornfull sownd.

Derivatives

ploring n. Obsolete rare Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 405 Plowrynge or wepynge, ploratus, fletus, lacrimacio.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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