Gore

Gore may refer to:

Violence

• Graphic violence visually depicted, especially the realistic depiction of serious physical injuries involving blood, flesh, bone and brain matter. This "gore effect" was first visualized in Wolfenstein 3D.^[1]
• Splatter film, a horror genre also known as "gore film"
• "Kensington Gore", English theatre slang for stage blood

Used as a verb

The act of impalement on an animal horn, especially as in bull fighting.

Company

• W. L. Gore and Associates is the maker of Gore-Tex fabrics and other industrial products.

Triangular segments

• Gore (segment), a triangular piece of cloth or metal used in three-dimensional fabrication
• Gore (road), a narrow, triangular area of land often found at road merges and diverges

Places

• Gore Mountain Ski Resort, a ski resort located in the Adirondacks
• Kensington Gore, a street in Kensington, West London
• Gore (surveying), an unincorporated area which is not part of any town and has limited self-government
• Gore, Ethiopia
• Gore, New Zealand
• Gore Township, Michigan
• Gore, Oklahoma
• Gore (hundred), a historic subdivision of Middlesex
• Hibberts Gore, Maine, an unincorporated area in Lincoln County, Maine
• Gore Range, Colorado
• Gore Canyon, Colorado
• Gore, Nova Scotia
• Gore, Quebec
• Gore Bay, Ontario
• Goré, Chad, in the Logone Oriental Region
• A mythical place mentioned in Arthurian legend, ruled by King Urien and probably based on the historical kingdom of Rheged

People

• Al Gore, environmental activist and US politician (45th Vice President of the United States, Tennessee senator)
• Albert Gore, Sr., United States Senator from Tennessee; father of Al Gore
• Bill Gore, founder of W. L. Gore and Associates, makers of Gore-Tex
• Catherine Gore, a British novelist
• Charles Gore, an English divine and Anglican bishop who founded the Community of the Resurrection
• Charles Gore (artist), landscape artist, Grand Tour traveler
• Francis Gore (1769–1852), a British officer and colonial administrator
• Frank Gore, American football player
• Ian Gore, English footballer
• Jack Gore, Wales international rugby player
• James Howard Gore, American Mathematician
• Kristin Gore, American Screenwriter
• Lesley Gore, American singer
• Martin L. Gore, a member of synthpop band Depeche Mode
• Richard Corben, cartoonist who uses Gore as a non-de-plume
• Shane Gore, English footballer
• Spencer Gore (sportsman), cricketer, and first Wimbledon tennis championship winner
• Spencer Gore (artist), British painter
• Tipper Gore, author, photographer, former "Second Lady of the United States"; wife of Al Gore
• Thomas Gore, United States senator
• Gore Verbinski, an American director
• Gore Vidal, an American author

Entertainment

• The Unseen (book), a horror-mystery novel by Joseph Citro also known as The Gore
• Gore: Ultimate Soldier, a first-person shooter videogame published by DreamCatcher Games
• Gore (band), a Dutch rock band formed in 1986
• Gore lyrical themes in Goregrind, a Death Metal subgenre
• Splatter film, a horror genre also known as "gore film"
• "Kensington Gore", English theatre slang for stage blood
• The Gore, a wrestling move used by Rhyno

Other

• Gore (surveying), an unincorporated area which has limited self-government
• Gore (segment), a piece of cloth or metal used in three-dimensional fabrication
• Gore (road), a narrow, triangular area of land often found at road merges and diverges
• Goré, Chad, a town

See also

• Gora (racial epithet)

References

1. ^ Davidson, Drew; Kelley, Julian (October 23, 2007). von Borries, Friedrich; Böttger, Matthias. eds. Space time play: computer games, architecture and urbanism : the next level. Birkhäuser Architecture. p. 40. http://www.google.com/books?id=isgsj244XeQC&lpg=PA1&pg=PA40#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 2010-06-13. "This "gore effect" is a cinematographic trick" 

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