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bore
1[ bawr ]
verb (used with object)
- to weary by dullness or sameness:
The long speech bored me.
Synonyms: , ,
Antonyms: , ,
noun
- a dull, tiresome, or uncongenial person:
He's such a bore that I'd rather stay home than go out with him.
- a cause of inconvenience or petty annoyance:
The job has a lot of repetitive tasks that are a bore to do.
bore
2[ bawr ]
verb (used with object)
- to pierce (a solid substance) with some rotary cutting instrument.
Synonyms: ,
- to make (a hole) by drilling with such an instrument.
- to form, make, or construct (a tunnel, mine, well, passage, etc.) by hollowing out, cutting through, or removing a core of material:
to bore a tunnel through the Alps;
to bore an oil well 3,000 feet deep.
- Machinery. to enlarge (a hole) to a precise diameter with a cutting tool within the hole, by rotating either the tool or the work.
- to force (an opening), as through a crowd, by persistent forward thrusting (usually followed by through or into ); to force or make (a passage).
verb (used without object)
- to make a hole in a solid substance with a rotary cutting instrument.
- Machinery. to enlarge a hole to a precise diameter.
- (of a substance) to admit of being bored:
Certain types of steel do not bore well.
noun
- a hole made or enlarged by boring.
- the inside diameter of a hole, tube, or hollow cylindrical or conical object or device, such as a bushing or bearing, engine cylinder, musical wind instrument, or barrel of a gun.
Synonyms:
bore
3[ bawr, bohr ]
noun
- an abrupt rise of tidal water moving rapidly inland from the mouth of an estuary.
bore
4[ bawr, bohr ]
verb
- simple past tense of bear 1.
bore
1/ ɔː /
verb
- to produce (a hole) in (a material) by use of a drill, auger, or other cutting tool
- to increase the diameter of (a hole), as by an internal turning operation on a lathe or similar machine
- tr to produce (a hole in the ground, tunnel, mine shaft, etc) by digging, drilling, cutting, etc
- informal.intr (of a horse or athlete in a race) to push other competitors, esp in order to try to get them out of the way
noun
- a hole or tunnel in the ground, esp one drilled in search of minerals, oil, etc
- a circular hole in a material produced by drilling, turning, or drawing
- the diameter of such a hole
- the hollow part of a tube or cylinder, esp of a gun barrel
- the diameter of such a hollow part; calibre
- an artesian well
bore
2/ ɔː /
verb
- tr to tire or make weary by being dull, repetitious, or uninteresting
noun
- a dull, repetitious, or uninteresting person, activity, or state
bore
3/ ɔː /
noun
- a high steep-fronted wave moving up a narrow estuary, caused by the tide
bore
4/ ɔː /
verb
- the past tense of bear 1
bore
- 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.
- The white, shallow portion of a wave after it breaks. The bore carries ocean water onto the beach.
- A tidal wave caused by the surge of a flood tide upstream in a narrowing estuary or by colliding tidal currents.
Derived Forms
- bored, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ǰ·· ǰ·· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of bore1
Origin of bore2
Origin of bore3
Word History and Origins
Origin of bore1
Origin of bore2
Origin of bore3
Example Sentences
I did pitch the whole special as a oner and the director said that would be really boring.
He was, in every sense, a true shepherd — one who bore the scent of his flock, walking closely with them through their struggles, their sorrows and their joys.
Is a possible interpretation of this paper, “In praise of boring birds?”
“I’m interested in human behavior. I can never understand when somebody says they’re bored. That is the most unfathomable thing that you could say to me.”
With layers of clay and bedrock of chalk, the subsurface is too soft to drill a bore tunnel, said Per Goltermann, a professor in concrete and structures at the Technical University of Denmark.
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