(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.
Lore
Definition:
(n.) The space between the eye and bill, in birds, and the corresponding region in reptiles and fishes.
(n.) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.
(obs. imp. & p. p.) Lost.
(v. t.) That which is or may be learned or known; the knowledge gained from tradition, books, or experience; often, the whole body of knowledge possessed by a people or class of people, or pertaining to a particular subject; as, the lore of the Egyptians; priestly lore; legal lore; folklore.
(v. t.) That which is taught; hence, instruction; wisdom; advice; counsel.
(v. t.) Workmanship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Currently, the US contains around 1,500 of the expansive “malls” of suburban consumer lore.
(2) Lib Dem MP Lorely Burt said the party was "stuck between a rock and a hard place".
(3) Start to care.” It has eight guides , most of whom give two-hour walks with a mix of local lore and their personal experience.
(4) In a country addicted to novelty and invention, he was proceeding to supply an instant lore of allegory, myth and fable.
(5) Bush's fantastical lyrics, influenced by children's literature, esoteric mystical knowledge, daydreams and the lore and legends of old Albion, seemed irrelevant, and deficient in street-cred at a time of tower-block social realism and agit-prop.
(6) Aboriginal people are obligated to maintain a connection to country to sustain spiritual beliefs, customary activities and traditional lore.
(7) It stamps into public lore an image that so fixates conservative opinion – that of the negligent parent, the one who might profess to care as much about their children as you or I, but is just waiting for society's back to be turned before smoking all over them.
(8) When we look at our favourite television shows, they've all stayed the same; stasis is part of television lore.
(9) Peak I stimulated and peak II inhibited the enzyme (Rodríguez de Lores Arnaiz and Antonelli de Gómez de Lima, Neurochem Res 11:933-947, 1986).
(10) Regardless, his 11-pitch at-bat against Clayton Kershaw in Game Six of the NLCS which set the stage for his implosion is now a moment of St Louis lore.
(11) Maz Kanata 'used telekinetic powers' in Star Wars: The Force Awakens Read more As a radical shift in Star Wars lore, such a change might have had the potential to make Han failing to shoot first in the “special edition” of 1977’s Star Wars look relatively inconsequential.
(12) The nature of feather inclusions was characterized in 32 psittacine birds (30 cockatoos, one peach-faced lovebird (Agapornis roseicollis), and one red-lored Amazon parrot (Amazona autumnalis autumnalis] with naturally-acquired psittacine beak and feather disease.
(13) Lorely Burt, parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to Danny Alexander, spoke out against military action in the debate and chose not to vote.
(14) SLAP HAFFEY said one, HAPLESS HAFFEY another - and in spite of such legendary predecessors in the lore as Harry Rennie, John Thomson and Jimmy Cowan, Scotland's reputation for insecure goalkeeping took root there and then.
(15) One version of tech lore has it that JVC's welcoming attitude towards adult content on VHS was the reason it won out in the end.
(16) Thus, contrary to popular myth and clinical lore, the overrepresentation of young adoptees in clinical settings is not attributable solely to the fact that adoptees are more troubled.
(17) Tips: Hook a mackerel and fry it for dinner just off the Cabot Trail, and learn to make Acadian potato pancakes for $22pp while savouring the cultural lore of Cape Breton.
(18) It made a most enduring impression upon my boyish mind which was my very first impulse to choosing chorea as my virgin contribution to medical lore.
(19) Jeter asks: “Why doesn’t he just shut up?” Rodriguez helped create a new phrase in Mets lore – “24 plus one” – which was the verbiage used by then Mets GM Steve Phillips to describe why the team had opted out of the Rodriguez free-agent sweepstakes in 2000.
(20) Once immersed in the scene, the lure and the lore of the tube proved hard to resist.