Definitions of bore [ɔr, boʊr]

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Definition of 'bore'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) bore
to pierce (a solid substance) with some rotary cutting instrument.

2.  bore
to make (a hole) with such an instrument.

3.  bore
to make (a tunnel, mine, passage, etc.) by hollowing out, cutting through, or removing a core of material.

4.  bore
to enlarge (a hole) to a precise diameter with a cutting tool within the hole, by rotating either the tool or the work.

5.  bore
to force (an opening), as through a crowd, by persistent forward thrusting (usu. fol. by through or into).

6. (v.i.) bore
to make a hole in a solid substance with a rotary cutting instrument.

7. (n.) bore
a hole made or enlarged by boring.

8.  bore
the inside diameter of a hole or hollow cylindrical object, such as an engine cylinder or a gun barrel.

9. (v.t.) bore
to weary by dullness, repetition, unwelcome attentions, etc.:
The long speech bored me.

10. (n.) bore
a dull, tiresome, or uncongenial person.

11.  bore
a cause of ennui or petty annoyance:
The play was a bore.

12. (n.) bore
an abrupt rise of tidal water moving inland from the mouth of an estuary.

Etymology: (1275–1325; ME bare < ON bāra wave)

Definition of 'bore'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) bore, dullard
a person who evokes boredom

2. (noun) tidal bore, bore, eagre, aegir, eager
a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

3. (noun) bore, gauge, caliber, calibre
diameter of a tube or gun barrel

4. (verb) bore, bore-hole, drill hole
a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes

5. (verb) bore, tire
cause to be bored

6. (verb) bore, drill
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"

Definition of 'bore'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) bore
to make sb bored
I won't bore you with my vacation pictures.

2. (noun) bore
a boring person
an ignorant bore

Definition of 'bore'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) bore
a hole made by boring; a perforation

2. (noun) bore
the internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube

3. (noun) bore
the size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber

4. (noun) bore
a tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger

5. (noun) bore
caliber; importance

6. (noun) bore
a person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui

7. (noun) bore
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

8. (noun) bore
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

9. bore
of Bear

10. bore
imp. of 1st & 2d Bear

11. (verb) bore
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

12. (verb) bore
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

13. (verb) bore
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

14. (verb) bore
to weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester

15. (verb) bore
to befool; to trick

16. (verb) bore
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)

17. (verb) bore
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

18. (verb) bore
to push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort

19. (verb) bore
to shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse

Definitions of 'bore'

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. bore
a watery ridge rushing violently up an estuary, due to a strong tidal wave travelling up a gradually narrowing channel. Bores are common in the estuary of the Ganges and other Asiatic rivers, in those of Brazil, and at the mouth of the Severn, in England.

Translation of 'bore'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to make (a hole etc in something) They bored a tunnel under the sea.
Afrikaans: boor	Arabic: ثَقْبٌ	Bulgarian: пробивам
Brazilian: furar	Czech: provrtat, (pro)razit	German: bohren
Danish: bore	Greek: (δι)ανοίγω, τρυπώ	Spanish: perforar
Estonian: puurima, uuristama	Farsi: سوراخ کردن؛ تونل زدن	Finnish: porata
French: faire un trou dans, forer	Hebrew: לִקְדוֹח, לַחפּוֹר	Hindi: छेद करना या भेदना
Croatian: izbušiti	Hungarian: (ki)fúr	Indonesian: melubangi
Icelandic: bora, grafa	Italian: forare, perforare	Japanese: 穴を開ける
Korean: 구멍을 뚫다	Lithuanian: išrausti, išgręžti	Latvian: urbt
Malay: menggerek	Dutch: boren	Norwegian: bore, grave
Polish: wiercić	Persian: سوراخ کردن؛ تونل زدن	Pashto: سوری کول، تونل وهل
Portuguese: furar	Romanian: a săpa, a fora	Russian: высверливать, бурить
Slovak: raziť	Slovenian: vrtati	Serbian: probušiti
Swedish: borra	Thai: เจาะ	Turkish: delmek, delik açmak
Taiwanese: 鑽(孔)	Ukrainian: свердлити	Urdu: سوراخ بنانا
Vietnamese: khoan;đào	Chinese: 钻（孔）
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