Bore
[bɔː] or [bɔr]
Definition
(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.
Typist: Thaddeus--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Norris
Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
Checked by Ives
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Perforate, pierce, weary, penetrate
ANT:Please, gratify, delight
Checker: Sigmund
Definition
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.
Typist: Ora
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Editor: Vicky
Examples
- He was undeniably a prosperous man, bore his drinking better than others bore their moderation, and, on the whole, flourished like the green bay-tree. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He bore it as long as he could, then went to his piano and began to play. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Laura Fairlie was in all my thoughts when the ship bore me away, and I looked my last at England. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You mean that she'd shock him and he'd bore her? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Travel of projectile in bore, 62. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Merely that I consider you a dead bore, I added, as I stepped into the hackney coach and was followed by Julia. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I could not refuse her requeSt. Her features bore the fixed rigidity of death when I entered her room. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Sooth to say, they cannot go away too fast, for even here my Lady Dedlock has been bored to death. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Perhaps I had better say, that you must submit to be mildly bored rather than to go on working. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The horses' hoofs have bored holes in these rocks to the depth of six inches during the hundreds and hundreds of years that the castle was garrisoned. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The hole at the bottom of the lowest was covered with a small pot, into the sides of which had been bored a number of holes. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- But I sometimes think we've always bored her. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I am happy--I am gratified--I am delighted--I am bored. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She smiled again as one might in bored indulgence of a questioning child. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The machines for drilling and boring are the best that money can buy, and the operatives the most skilful to be found anywhere. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Formerly augers and similar boring tools had merely a curved sharpened end and a concavity to hold the chips, and the whole tool had to be withdrawn to empty the chips. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Although by far the largest undertaking yet made, the improvement in rock-boring machinery enabled it to be constructed much more rapidly and at less expense. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is too boring, just boring. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When it is remembered that most of the 7? miles of tunnel was cut through solid rock, by boring and blasting, the immensity of the undertaking can be appreciated. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Paris was dry, and essentially boring. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This punching of the cold metal without cutting, boring, drilling, hammering, or otherwise shaping the metal, was indeed a revelation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He made designs for firearms and experimented with guns to learn the carrying distance of various bores and balls. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- His maleness bores me. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He bores me. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- A customer wanted some special barrels with nine bores in a single piece of steel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There are others beside the _Teniente-Coronel_ asleep in this Brigade Staff and thy emotion bores me. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Three-barrel guns were also made from one piece of steel, two bores for shot and the third rifled for a bullet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But my cousins are bores. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Editor: Monica