gore

n. thick blood from a wound, or very violent scenes in movies and books.

n. blood that has been shed, especially when thickened or clotted; by extension, the depiction of graphic violence in media.

“The horror movie was full of gore and made many people feel sick.”

“The veteran reporter had witnessed enough real-world gore to be completely unfazed by the special effects in the latest action blockbuster.”

n. a triangular piece of cloth used to make a skirt or sail wider.

n. a triangular or wedge-shaped piece of fabric inserted into a garment or sail to provide shape or volume.

“The dressmaker added a gore to the skirt to give it more flare.”

“By carefully aligning the grain of each gore, the tailor ensured the heavy woollen cloak draped elegantly without bunching at the waist.”

Technical

n. a triangular piece of land or a section of a map that covers a round object like a globe.

n. a triangular tract of land, or one of the curved segments of a map designed to be pasted onto a sphere to form a globe.

“The map was printed in several gores so it could be glued onto a ball.”

“The surveyor identified a small gore of land between the two estates that had remained unincorporated due to an eighteenth-century mapping error.”

Technical