Gore vs. Blood — What's the Difference?

To pierce or stab with a horn or tusk.

Blood is a body fluid in humans and other animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.In vertebrates, it is composed of blood cells suspended in blood plasma. Plasma, which constitutes 55% of blood fluid, is mostly water (92% by volume), and contains proteins, glucose, mineral ions, hormones, carbon dioxide (plasma being the main medium for excretory product transportation), and blood cells themselves.

To provide with a gore.

The fluid consisting of plasma, blood cells, and platelets that is circulated by the heart through the vertebrate vascular system, carrying oxygen and nutrients to and waste materials away from all body tissues.

To cut into a gore.

A similar fluid in animals other than vertebrates.

A triangular or tapering piece of cloth forming a part of something, as in a skirt or sail.

The juice or sap of certain plants.

A small triangular piece of land.

A vital or animating force; lifeblood.

Blood, especially coagulated blood from a wound.

One of the four humors of ancient and medieval physiology, identified with the blood found in blood vessels, and thought to cause cheerfulness.

Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.

Bloodshed; murder.

Murder, bloodshed, violence.

Temperament or disposition

Dirt; mud; filth.

Descent from a common ancestor; parental lineage.

A triangular piece of land where roads meet.

Family relationship; kinship.

(surveying) A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.

Descent from noble or royal lineage

The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe

Recorded descent from purebred stock.

A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.^Wp

National or racial ancestry.

An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.

A dandy.

A projecting point.

A member of a tribe of the Blackfoot confederacy inhabiting southern Alberta.

(heraldry) One of the abatements, made of two inwardly curved lines, meeting in the fesse point.

To give (a hunting dog) its first taste of blood.

To pierce with the horn.

To subject (troops) to experience under fire

To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.

To initiate by subjecting to an unpleasant or difficult experience.

To cut in a triangular form.

A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.

To provide with a gore.

A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption (see blood relative, blood relation, by blood).

Dirt; mud.

(historical) One of the four humours in the human body.

Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted.

A blood test or blood sample.

A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.

The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.

A small traingular piece of land.

(poetic) The juice of anything, especially if red.

One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.

Temper of mind; disposition; mood

To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab.

(obsolete) A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.

To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.

A blood horse, one of good pedigree.

Vice president of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948)

(figurative) Bloodshed.

Coagulated blood from a wound

Alternative case form of Blood.

A triangular piece of cloth

A friend or acquaintance, especially one who is black and male.

The shedding of blood resulting in murder;

(transitive) To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.

Wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument

To let blood (from); to bleed.

Cut into gores;

(transitive) To initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of the first kill witnessed.

The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.

Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.

Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage.

Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.

The fleshy nature of man.

The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.

A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.

Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; - as if the blood were the seat of emotions.

A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake.

The juice of anything, especially if red.

To bleed.

To stain, smear or wet, with blood.

To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.

To heat the blood of; to exasperate.

The fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped by the heart;

The descendants of one individual;

The shedding of blood resulting in murder;

Temperament or disposition;

A dissolute man in fashionable society

People viewed as members of a group;

Smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill