Bore

[bɔː] or [bɔr]

解释:

(noun.) a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes.

(noun.) diameter of a tube or gun barrel.

(noun.) a person who evokes boredom.

(verb.) make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool; 'don't drill here, there's a gas pipe'; 'drill a hole into the wall'; 'drill for oil'; 'carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall'.

(verb.) cause to be bored.

手打:撒迪厄斯--From WordNet

解释:

(imp.) of Bear

(v. t.) To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.

(v. t.) To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.

(v. t.) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.

(v. t.) To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.

(v. t.) To befool; to trick.

(v. i.) To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).

(v. i.) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.

(v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

(v. i.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.

(n.) A hole made by boring; a perforation.

(n.) The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.

(n.) The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.

(n.) A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.

(n.) Caliber; importance.

(n.) A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.

(n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.

(n.) Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.

(-) imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.

整理:诺里斯

同义词及近义词：

v. a. [1]. Perforate, pierce, drill.[2]. Weary (by tedious repetition), fatigue, plague, trouble, vex, worry, annoy.

n. [1]. Hole, calibre.[2]. Proser, button-holder.[3]. Eagre, great tidal flood.

艾维斯编辑

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Perforate, pierce, weary, penetrate

ANT:Please, gratify, delight

手打:西格蒙德

解释:

n. a tidal flood which rushes with great violence up the estuaries of certain rivers also called Eagre.

v.t. to pierce so as to form a hole; to weary or annoy.—n. a hole made by boring: the size of the cavity of a gun; a person or thing that wearies (not from the foregoing according to Dr Murray who says both verb and noun arose after 1750).—ns. Bor′er the person or thing that bores: a genus of sea-worms that pierce wood; a name common to many insects that pierce wood; Bor′ing the act of making a hole in anything: a hole made by boring: (pl.) the chips produced by boring.

did bear pa.t. of Bear.

整理:奥拉