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What's The Definition Of Bore?
[n] (mining terms) a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes
[n] diameter of a tube or gun barrel [n] a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) [n] a person who evokes boredom [v] drill a hole into [v] cause to be bored Synonyms | Synonyms for Bore: aegir | bore-hole | caliber | calibre | drill | drill hole | dullard | eager | eagre | tidal bore | tire Related Terms | Find terms related to Bore: acupunctuation | acupuncture | aggravation | annoyance | auger | bad news | be tedious | bedevilment | billow | bite | bore stiff | bore to death | bore to distraction | bore to tears | boring | bother | botheration | bothersomeness | breakers | broach | burrow | buttonhole | buttonholer | caliber | chop | choppiness | chopping sea | comb | comber | countersink | crashing bore | delve | devilment | diameter | difficulty | dig | dig out | dike | dirty water | discompose | discontent | disquiet | dogging | downer | drag | dredge | drill | drill hole | drip | drive | dryasdust | dusty | eagre | empierce | empiercement | ennui | exasperation | excavate | exhaust | fix | fixing | flat tire | frightful bore | furrow | gape | gaup | gawk | glare | gloat | goggle | gore | goring | gouge | gouge out | gravity wave | groove | ground swell | grub | harassment | harrying | headache | heave | heavy sea | heavy swell | hole | hollow out | honeycomb | hounding | humdrum | impale | impalement | jade | lance | lancing | leave unsatisfied | lift | lop | lower | mine | molestation | needle | nuisance | pall | peak | peer | penetrate | penetration | perforate | perforation | persecution | pest | pierce | piercing | pill | pink | popple | prick | pricking | problem | proser | punch | punching | puncture | puncturing | quarry | radius | ream | ream out | riddle | riffle | ripple | rise | roll | roller | rough water | run through | sap | scend | scoop | scoop out | scrabble | scrape | scratch | sea | semidiameter | send | send to sleep | shovel | sink | skewer | skewering | spade | spear | spike | spit | stab | stare | stick | surf | surge | swell | tap | terebration | tidal bore | tidal wave | tide wave | tire | transfix | transfixation | transfixion | transforation | transpierce | trench | trepan | trepanning | trephine | trephining | trial | trouble | trough | tsunami | tunnel | twaddler | undulation | vexation | vexatiousness | water wave | wave | wavelet | wear out | weary | wet blanket | white horses | whitecaps | worriment | worry See Also | counter-drill | cut | diam | diameter | disagreeable person | excavation | fuddy-duddy | gasbag | hole in the ground | nudnick | nudnik | platitudinarian | shot hole | stuffed shirt | tidal current | tidal flow | trepan | unpleasant person | windbag Bore In Webster's Dictionary \Bore\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Boring}.] [OE. borien, AS. borian; akin to Icel. bora, Dan.
bore, D. boren, OHG. por?n, G. bohren, L. forare, Gr. ? to
plow, Zend bar. [root]91.]
1. 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.
I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored.
--Shak.
2. 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.
Short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the
insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical
passage through the most solid wood. --T. W.
Harris.
3. 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. ``What bustling crowds I
bored.'' --Gay.
4. To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to
trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
He bores me with some trick. --Shak.
Used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
--Carlyle.
5. To befool; to trick. [Obs.]
I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned,
Baffled and bored, it seems. --Beau. & Fl.
\Bore\, v. i. 1. 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). 2. 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. 3. To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort. They take their flight . . . boring to the west. --Dryden. 4. (Man.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse. --Crabb. \Bore\ (b[=o]r), n. 1. A hole made by boring; a perforation. 2. The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. The bores of wind instruments. --Bacon. Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing. --Shak. 3. The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber. 4. A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger. 5. Caliber; importance. [Obs.] Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter. --Shak. 6. A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui. It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses. --Hawthorne. \Bore\, n. [Icel. b[=a]ra wave: cf. G. empor upwards, OHG. bor height, burren to lift, perh. allied to AS. beran, E. 1st {bear}. [root]92.] (Physical Geog.) (a) 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. (b) 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. \Bore\, imp. of 1st & 2d {Bear}. |
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