-phore

American  

1. a combining form meaning “bearer of,” “thing or part bearing” that specified by the initial element.

   gonophore.

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-phore British  

combining form

1. indicating a person or thing that bears or produces

   gonophore

   semaphore

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Other Word Forms

• -phorous combining form

Etymology

Origin of -phore

< New Latin -phorus < Greek -phoros bearing, verbid of phérein; bear ¹

Example Sentences

From the time that Wedgwood and Davy relinquished their investigation, the subject appears to have lain dormant until 1814, when Joseph Nic�phore Ni�pce, of Chalons-sur-Sa�ne, commenced a series of experiments with various resins, with the object of securing or retaining in a permanent state the pictures produced in the camera-obscura, and in 1824, L. J. M. Daguerre turned his attention to the same subject.

From Project Gutenberg

After the death of M. Nic�phore Ni�pce, a new agreement was entered into by his son, M. Isidore Ni�pce, and M. Daguerre, and we must leave those two experimentalists pursuing their discoveries in France while we return to England to pick up the chronological links that unite the history of this wonderful discovery with the time that it was abandoned by Wedgwood and Davy, and the period of its startling and brilliant realization.

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As Daguerre was the first of the successful discoverers of photography to be summoned by death, I will here give a brief sketch of his life and pursuits prior to his association with Nic�phore Ni�pce and photography.

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Mrs. H. Baden Pritchard—Impressions from pewter plates of heliographic drawing, by Nic�phore Ni�pce, 1827.

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Original letter, by Nic�phore Ni�pce, sent to the Royal Society, 1827.

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