bore

bore ¹  (bôr, br)

v. bored, bor·ing, bores

v.tr.

1. To make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill.

2. To form (a tunnel, for example) by drilling, digging, or burrowing.

v.intr.

1. To make a hole in or through something with or as if with a drill: "three types of protein that enable the cells to bore in and out of blood vessels" Elisabeth Rosenthal.

2. To proceed or advance steadily or laboriously: a destroyer boring through heavy seas.

n.

1. A hole or passage made by or as if by use of a drill.

2. A hollow, usually cylindrical chamber or barrel, as of a firearm.

3. The interior diameter of a hole, tube, or cylinder.

4. The caliber of a firearm.

5. A drilling tool.

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[Middle English boren, from Old English borian.]

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bore ²  (bôr, br)

tr.v. bored, bor·ing, bores

To make weary by being dull, repetitive, or tedious: The movie bored us.

n.

One that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious.

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[Origin unknown.]

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bore ³  (bôr, br)

n.

A high, often dangerous wave caused by the surge of a flood tide upstream in a narrowing estuary or by colliding tidal currents. Also called eagre.

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[Middle English bare, wave, from Old Norse bra; see bher-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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bore ¹

Verb

[boring, bored]

1. to produce (a hole) with a drill, etc.

2. to produce (a tunnel, mine shaft, etc.) by drilling

Noun

1. a hole or tunnel in the ground drilled in search of minerals, oil, etc.

2.

a. the hollow of a gun barrel

b. the diameter of this hollow; calibre [Old English borian]

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bore ²

Verb

[boring, bored]

to tire or make weary by being dull, repetitious, or uninteresting

Noun

a dull or repetitious person, activity, or state [origin unknown]

bored adj
boring adj

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bore ³

Noun

a high wave moving up a narrow estuary, caused by the tide [Old Norse bāra]

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bore ⁴

Verb

the past tense of bear¹

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bore  (bôr)

1. In fluid mechanics, a jump in the level of moving water, generally propagating in the opposite direction to the current. Strong ocean tides can cause bores to propagate up rivers.

2.

a. The white, shallow portion of a wave after it breaks. The bore carries ocean water onto the beach.

b. A tidal wave caused by the surge of a flood tide upstream in a narrowing estuary or by colliding tidal currents.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	bore - a person who evokes boredom dullard disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable gasbag, windbag - a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics nudnick, nudnik - (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest platitudinarian - a bore who makes excessive use of platitudes stuffed shirt - a bore who is extremely formal, pompous, and old-fashioned
	2.	bore - a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) aegir, eager, eagre, tidal bore tidal current, tidal flow - the water current caused by the tides
	3.	bore - diameter of a tube or gun barrel caliber, calibre, gauge diam, diameter - the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference
	4.	bore - a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes bore-hole, drill hole mining, excavation - the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth excavation - a hole in the ground made by excavating shot hole - drill hole for a charge of an explosive
Verb	1.	bore - cause to be bored tire interest - excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of
	2.	bore - 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" drill spud - initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum; "The well was spudded in April" counter-drill - drill in an opposite direction trepan - cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery cut - separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope"

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bore ¹

verb drill, mine, sink, tunnel, pierce, penetrate, burrow, puncture, perforate, gouge out

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bore ²

verb 1. tire, exhaust, annoy, fatigue, weary, wear out, jade, wear down, be tedious, pall on, send to sleep << OPPOSITE excite

noun 2. nuisance, pain (informal) drag (informal) headache (informal) yawn (informal) anorak (informal) pain in the neck (informal) dullard, dull person, tiresome person, wearisome talker

Translations

bore [bɔːʳ] pt of bear

vt [+ hole] → taladrar [+ person]; aburrir

n (person) → pelmazo, pesado; [of gun] → calibre m

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bore [bɔːʳ] pt of bear

vt [+ person] → ennuyer, raser [+ hole]; percer [+ well, tunnel]; creuser

n (= person) → raseur/euse (= boring thing); barbe f [of gun]; calibre m

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bore [bɔːʳ] pt of bear

vt → bohren;

(person) → langweilen

n → Langweiler m;

(of gun) → Kaliber nt;

to be bored → sich langweilen;

he's bored to tears or bored to death or bored stiff → er langweilt sich zu Tode

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bore [bɔːʳ] pt of bear

vt [+ hole] → perforare [+ person]; annoiare

n (person) → seccatore/trice; [of gun] → calibro;

he's bored to tears or bored to death or bored stiff → è annoiato a morte, si annoia da morire