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Boring   /bˈɔrɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Bore  v. t.  (past & past part. bored; pres. part. boring)  
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."
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."
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."
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." "Used to come and bore me at rare intervals."
5.
To befool; to trick. (Obs.) "I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, Baffled and bored, it seems."


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."
4.
(Man.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; said of a horse.


noun
Boring  n.  
1.
The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks. "One of the most important applications of boring is in the formation of artesian wells."
2.
A hole made by boring.
3.
pl. The chips or fragments made by boring.
Boring bar, a revolving or stationary bar, carrying one or more cutting tools for dressing round holes.
Boring tool (Metal Working), a cutting tool placed in a cutter head to dress round holes.





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"Boring" Quotes from Famous Books



... represent a vertical section of one of the Chincha islands and the depth of the deposit according to the government surveys. The paralel lines at the bottom represent the level of the water—the crooked line above, the surface of the rock; its position having been ascertained by boring and observations of the surveyors. The rounded line is the surface of the island as it now appears; all between that and the rock being guano. The almost perpendicular line at the left hand, 100 feet high, is the rock at which ships ...
— Guano - A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers • Solon Robinson
... on blundering, and bragging and boring, quite unconsciously. And so he will, no doubt, go on roaring and braying, to the end of time or at least so long as people will hear him. You cannot alter the nature of men and Snobs by any force of satire; as, by laying ever so many stripes ...
— The Book of Snobs • William Makepeace Thackeray
... as pumps and engines used in mining, moving, and delivering ores; apparatuses for breaking out ore and coal; for crushing and pulverizing; for reducing metals, for instance the extraction of gold and silver by milling, lixiviation, and fire; furthermore, boring and drilling tools; grinding ...
— By Water to the Columbian Exposition • Johanna S. Wisthaler
... boring and worrying them all out of their lives over the books,' added Fergus. 'Poking his nose into everything, so that Stebbing says his governor vows he can't stand it, and shall cut the concern it the old brute does not take himself off to ...
— Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge
... are very good. In fact, one of the men was very enthusiastic and he was willing to put up five thousand dollars toward boring a well in one ...
— The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck - Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields • Edward Stratemeyer


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