(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.
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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.
Dullard
Definition:
(n.) A stupid person; a dunce.
(a.) Stupid.
Example Sentences:
(1) And wrong because it was carefully, cynically manufactured to get dullards hot under the collar – and lefty writers like me waffling on about precisely how wrong it is on Comment is free.
(2) Meanwhile, in a (seemingly) parallel story, medieval dullard Alaïs must protect the (apparently) same ring from gnashing crusaders and conniving sister Oriane, who is also banging Alaïs's expressionless husband.
(3) Their only MP is a “dullard” who needs to be expelled, says the party’s millionaire backer .
(4) Leader of the Lib Dems Tim Farron joined calls for the British government to honour its pledges by immediately rescuing vulnerable minors who are eligible to be in the UK, saying: “If Theresa May does not act now, she will not only be shaming her government but shaming the country.” Anita Dullard of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said there had been a rise in incidents of sexual violence in Greece’s refugee camps and that they had alerted the government.
(5) But he will always be remembered for his great role, to which he brought such passion and power: TE Lawrence, who single-handedly led an Arab force against the Ottoman empire and succeeded in infuriating the stuffy dullards who made up the British army's officer class.
(6) On the one hand, then, our hero is one of the many MPs for that most over-represented of constituencies: dreary dullards so bereft of anything resembling a "character" that they imagine bores such as Mr Fabricant to be one.
(7) Why didn’t I shag a builder, or a bendy yoga dullard?
(8) He made the leads "nice" people (Laura and Alec, a housewife and a doctor) and the supporting characters clear-cut English types – Stanley Holloway as the naughty, good-hearted station master and Joyce Carey as the bossy, buffet manageress, as well as Cyril Raymond who is quite exquisite as Laura's husband, Fred, a decent dullard who senses that his wife has "been away" but cannot dream of what she has been up to or how close they have all come to disaster.
(9) As for Mirror journalists, they learned under the grey administration of David Montgomery that despots are often preferable to dullards and, but for fear of reprisal, would, it is said, have produced lapel badges that read: "Come back Maxwell, (almost) all is forgiven."
(10) He draws a comparison between that show’s Rob Lowe’s clean-cut dullard and the actor who plays Josh Lyman, the mesmerising deputy chief of staff.
(11) But last night was when the cleverness died because somehow Van Gaal got it wrong and Holland are out , losing on penalties to Argentina after a grinding stalemate which can either generously be described as a tactically absorbing encounter or more appropriately as WHAT THE BLOODY HELL DO YOU THINK THAT WAS YOU INCESSANT DULLARDS, O FIVERÃO WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT AND INSTEAD YOU SERVE UP THAT GRUEL, YOU CLOWNS ALL WANT TO HAVE A LONG, HARD LOOK AT YOURSELVES BECAUSE THAT WASN’T GOOD ENOUGH, IT WASN’T EVEN CLOSE TO BEING GOOD ENOUGH, HOW CAN ANY MATCH THAT FEATURES SO MUCH OF THAT TEDIOUS CHANCER DIRK KUYT LOCATING ROW Z WITH HIS ‘CROSSES’ BE CONSIDERED ACCEPTABLE, I MEAN REALLY, DIRK KUYT ON THE LEFT WING, JOHAN CRUYFF DIDN’T DIE FOR THIS.
(12) When I hear him prattle on inanely I can imagine how Neil Lennon felt when the Geordie dullard kicked him in the head."
(13) Read more Pools win prizes If financial investigators are really keen to catch out the parents of these preening dullards, they could do a lot worse than to examine their endless photographs of impractically tiny rooftop infinity pools.
(14) He's a negative, percentage football dullard who has achieved absolutely nothing in the game, ever.