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Definition

allowing passage through a barrier

The barrier can be physical or figurative — such as:

a membrane, asphalt or other material that is full of tiny holes that permit penetration by a fluid or gas
a border or other barrier that is not effective (for example, permitting illegal crossing)
an ineffective sports defense
a law or other rule that is full of loopholes

the partly porous walls of our digestive system

porous = allowing passage through a barrier

compacting the soil to make it less porous
our unfenced and largely unpoliced borders have proven porous
It's against the rules, but the regulations are porous.
His father peeled him away gradually, like a porous plaster.
O. Henry -- The Ransom of Red Chief
His skin was as porous as an orange rind and the elements had darkened it to resemble a fine old piece of furniture.
Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
When it came to containing gossip, no walls in the world were as porous as those surrounding Vatican City.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
But the frame was the original porous stone used to build the manor.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
The entire island seemed porous with hydrium.
Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn
Their bones are extremely light and porous, filled with tiny air pockets.
James Patterson -- Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
He could feel the shock wave of the bullets as they sailed beneath him and pulverized the porous travertine behind.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
I feel I even walk like that: crouched over, my spine constricting to a question mark, my bones leached of calcium and porous as limestone.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
The captain nodded, and the chaplain gazed at his porous gray pallor of fatigue and malnutrition with a mixture of pity and esteem.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
Our bones are made porous.
Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
He moved to the end of the veranda to refill the heavy, porous clay water-jug from the filter.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
There was no trail at all, and we picked our way between and over the rumpled slabs of porous black rock.
Megan Whalen Turner -- The Thief
His nose was as porous and dark as volcanic rock.
John Gardner -- Grendel
Carl fingered the blue-green leaves, porous like blotting-paper and shaped like birch leaves, hung on waxen red stems.
Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!
The surface of the snowpack began to thaw, turn porous and slushy.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
Figuratively I could snapshot what I mean by some image; I am a porous vessel afloat on sensation; a sensitive plate exposed to invisible rays; and so on.
Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past

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