(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.
Mill
Definition:
(n.) A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
(n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.
(n.) A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.
(n.) A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
(n.) A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.
(n.) A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.
(n.) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
(n.) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
(n.) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
(n.) A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
(n.) A pugilistic.
(n.) To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
(n.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
(n.) To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.
(n.) To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
(n.) To beat with the fists.
(n.) To roll into bars, as steel.
(v. i.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
(2) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(3) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
(4) This is a report on a male patient of 71 years of age who had been a graphite mill worker for about 14 years.
(5) What seems beyond doubt is that Koussa has long represented the old guard which for decades was close to Gaddafi, but which – if the Tripoli rumour mill is to be believed – has recently been pushed aside by Gaddafi's competing sons.
(6) It obviously helps to have a waterfront, red bricks and cotton mills,” said Professor Karel Williams at Manchester Business School.
(7) Airborne endotoxin also was estimated in the different work places of the mill.
(8) 800,000 U and 1.5 mill U SK recanalized infarct-related arteries at a rate of 78%.
(9) A cross-sectional study of 315 animal feed workers was undertaken in 14 animal feed mills in the Netherlands.
(10) A study was conducted to estimate the exposure-response relationship for tremolite-actinolite fiber exposure and radiographic findings among 184 men employed at a Montana vermiculite mine and mill.
(11) Mills said the operators' maps, which he copied, showed the mark was to be the site of a detonation.
(12) Two hundred and seventy-one men seen in 1963, who worked in a pulp and a paper mill, were followed up ten years later, in 1973.
(13) No significant changes in respiratory function or bronchial responsiveness related to exposure to hydrogen sulphide in the pulp mill workers were found.
(14) This was caused by ingestion of branches of the alder buckthorn (Frangula alnus (mill.)
(15) To create a new bank, which we understand is an option, which could be called Glyn Mills, is ridiculously back to the future.
(16) Under an abandoned flour mill and in a "howling, freezing" power station, he had "eaten sandwiches and coffee coated thick with dust".
(17) Non-occupational exposure of the population living in the vicinity of the serpentine mining and processing mill in Nasławice was assessed.
(18) The concentration of hyaluronan was measured in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) of 18 control subjects and 27 workers from the asbestos mills and mines of Québec, 9 without asbestosis and 18 with asbestosis.
(19) The erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium falciparum from Aotus trivirgatus were grown in Mill Hill medium.
(20) Video of flooding in Barcombe Mills, East Sussex 12.07pm GMT Lord Smith of the Environment Agency due to speak from Somerset soon.