wore

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UK/wɔː/US/wɔɹ//wo(ː)ɹ//woə/

A form of write once — Of a type of storage technology in which data, once written, cannot be erased or modified.

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Meanings

wore1

verb
  1. pastsimple past of wear
  2. colloquialnonstandardparticiplepastpast participle of wear

    Crim. No, though I loſe that Head which I before / Deſign'd ſhould the Morocco-Crown have wore[…]

    1673, Elkanah Settle, The Empress of Morocco […] , William Coleman, act III, page 19
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    Some of the greatest scholars, politicians, and wits, that ever Europe produced, have wore the habit of an abbé[…]

    1824, Tobias Smollett, The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D., volume VII, page 125

    But he wore surgical gloves when we had sex, I mean if we had had a body condom he would have wore it and he'd go wash immediately.

    1997 August 4, Patricia A Lather, Christine S Smithies, Troubling The Angels: Women Living With HIV/AIDS, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 138
  3. pastsimple past of ware ("bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern")

WORE2

phrase
  1. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of write once, run everywhere.

    Synonyms: WORA

Synonyms & antonyms

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with wore

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Sounds the same

war (horse–hoarse merger)Waugh (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

Anagrams

RoweowerWroewero
Cite this entry
APA

wore. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wore

MLA

“wore.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wore. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wore,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wore.

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