What's the difference between bore and borne?

Bore


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Bear
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
  • (v. t.) To befool; to trick.
  • (v. i.) 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).
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
  • (v. i.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
  • (n.) A hole made by boring; a perforation.
  • (n.) The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
  • (n.) The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
  • (n.) A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
  • (n.) Caliber; importance.
  • (n.) A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • () imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The scaphoid silicone implant bore significant, although less, load than the normal scaphoid.
  • (2) Paparella type II tubes had a prolonged period of intubation and a decreased reintubation rate when compared with the smaller bore tubes.
  • (3) He says the next step will be moving to bore water, which will require people to boil water to drink.
  • (4) By the time the bud was half the diameter of the mother cell, it almost always bore a vacuole.
  • (5) Rather, there is evidence that students find these courses 'waffly' and boring.
  • (6) (2) E. granulosus, which includes two geographical groups: (a) Northern group, with two sub-species E. g borelis and E. g. canadensis, the life-cycle of which is sylvatic and that are agents of a pulmonary hydatidosis which may affect Man.
  • (7) Adult mongrel dogs were instrumented and placed in the bore of a Bruker Biospec 1.89 tesla superconducting magnet system.
  • (8) But the president said that the rest of the country had relied for too long on police to do the “dirty work” of containing urban violence and bore responsibility for the violent spectacle in Baltimore.
  • (9) It was shown by double staining that most of the Ia-bearing T cells also bore the T8 marker.
  • (10) Neither the peak serum E2 level attained nor the number of days of stimulation required bore a relationship to the BMI or the total body weight of these women.
  • (11) Experts and activists have said the murder bore all the hallmarks of Egypt’s notorious secret service, but Egyptian officials have consistently put forward alternative theories, including that Regeni was killed by a criminal gang and that his death was an isolated incident.
  • (12) The selectivity, efficiency and lifetime of normal- and narrow-bore columns for high-performance liquid chromatography were investigated for the separation and quantification of amino acids and the amino acid-like antibiotics phosphinothricin and phosphinothricylalanylalanine in biological samples.
  • (13) Soon my pillowcases bore rusty coins of nasal drippage.
  • (14) On 1 January 1832, he reports that: "The new year to my jaundiced senses bore a most gloomy appearance.
  • (15) The use of soft catheter materials in large-bore veins has allowed safe long-term venous access in human patients.
  • (16) The lesson for the international community, fatigued or bored by competing stories of Middle Eastern carnage, is that problems that are left to fester only get worse – and always take a terrible human toll.
  • (17) While Cropley talked to a member of staff, her daughter got a bit bored.
  • (18) Sometimes my press conferences are boring because I’m very polite or political.
  • (19) It was found that the emphasis in the reporting of adolescence bore little relationship to the importance or relevance of each area of study.
  • (20) And until recently, they bore children for foreigners who never even saw this place.

Borne


Definition:

  • () of Bear
  • (p. p.) Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here we have asked whether protection from blood-borne antigens afforded by the blood-brain barrier is related to the lack of MHC expression.
  • (2) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
  • (3) It wasn’t an easy decision because I was born in Kingston, Jamaica,” acknowledged Aarons.
  • (4) Nulliparous women were also more likely to discontinue the condom because of pregnancy, as were non-Protestants and the Australian-born.
  • (5) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
  • (6) There were 101 unwanted pregnancies, and 1 child was born with intersexual genitals.
  • (7) There are no published reports of its detection in neonates born to affected mothers.
  • (8) Aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) inducibility, carbon monoxide in expired air (CO), serum gammaglutamyl-transferase (GGT), and total cholesterol were compared in equal-sized, age-matched samples of healthy middle-aged males born in 1921, 1934-1936, and 1946 attending the ongoing preventive medical population program in Malmö.
  • (9) There were 4 spontaneous first trimester abortions and 21 live-born neonates without major problems related to the treatment or to the maternal disease.
  • (10) The expectation of life at birth was only 30-35 years, but it was long enough to allow for children to be born and for the populations to expand.
  • (11) Whereas the tight junctions of endoneurial capillaries are known to prevent certain blood-borne substances from entering the endoneurium, it was not clear whether the permeability of the pulpal capillaries, which are distant from the nerve fibres, could affect the nerve fibre environment.
  • (12) The data of first 1000 first-born, non-malformed, mature (greater than or equal to 2500 g) offspring of participants in the Hungarian "Optimal" Family Planning Programme were evaluated.
  • (13) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
  • (14) After all, he reminds us, the Smiths can take no credit for the place, having only been born and brought up there, not responsible for its size and stature.
  • (15) It is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the United States, where the incidence is highest in the eastern and midwestern states.
  • (16) < 37 weeks) small for gestational age (SGA) born from 1980 to 1987 in Pavia and admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of S. Matteo Hospital (Pavia).
  • (17) Polypeptides of egg-borne Sendai virus (egg Sendai), which is biologically active on the basis of criteria of the infectivity for L cells and of hemolytic and cell fusion activities, were compared by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with those of L cell-borne (L Sendai) and HeLa cell-borne Sendai (HeLa Sendai) viruses, which are judged biologically inactive by the above criteria.
  • (18) The genetic management of the African green monkey breeding colony was discussed in relation to the difference in distribution of phenotypes of M and ABO blood groups between the parental (wild-originated) and the first filial (colony-born) populations.
  • (19) What we see from those opposite and we see in this chamber every day is the 'born to rule mentality' of those opposite.
  • (20) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.