(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.
(n.) The native form of a metal, whether free and uncombined, as gold, copper, etc., or combined, as iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers).
(n.) A native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is worthless.
(n.) Metal; as, the liquid ore.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three long-time and two ore three respectively shorter observations of scoliotics with syringomyelia are presented and the pertinent literature is discussed including the complex etiopathogenesis.
(2) His views were backed up by a recent survey in newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore , which listed Sicily as the worst region in Italy in quality-of-life rankings, and Palermo as the worst within the region.
(3) But Zhang described $9m of that as legitimate profit from an iron-ore deal, adding: "There are plenty of reasons to argue against the rest of the amount."
(4) Forrest noted Fortescue’s rivals Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton had a break-even price of about US$30 a tonne, and the latter announced plans on Tuesday to slash costs at its WA iron ore mines to US$16 a tonne.
(5) These could include prize iron ore mines in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
(6) Fibrous actinolite was found in unexpanded Montana vermiculite ore at a maximum concentration of 2.0%.
(7) The main works in the mine were classified as mining, dressing of ores, refining, and clerical work.
(8) Hair arsenic analysis in people living in two locations near an ore smelter and a refinery indicated high-levels compared to those of individuals residing in nonpolluted areas.
(9) In the study area, Cu and Zn emanate from sewage and boat slips (antifouling paints), while Zn probably also originates from coolant water from an electricity power generating station and iron ore exporting facilities.
(10) Microorganisms were studied by capillary microscopy in the surface layer of ooze and in the bottom layer of water in the ore field of the lake Krasnoye.
(11) For example, a post-consumer automotive catalyst has a concentration of platinum group metals (like platinum, palladium and rhodium) more than 100 times higher than in natural ores.
(12) In addition to the financial costs due to lost output and repairs at the mine, which accounts for about 10% of Brazil’s iron ore exports, BHP and Vale are expected to face steep fines as well as lawsuits at a time when iron ore prices are at their lowest point in a decade.
(13) In order to provide drainage, the catheter should be advanced under fluoroscopic control into one of the major radicles ore preferably into the distal common duct beyond the point of obstruction.
(14) Strikes are also under way at gold and iron ore mines and production of 2,000 cars was lost after a wildcat strike at the Toyota plant in Durban.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fortescue Solomon iron ore mine in the Valley of the Kings.
(16) The hazards covered are: accidents, dust (including poisoning by certain ores), high temperature and humidity, noise and vibration, toxic gases, and miscellaneous other hazards.
(17) Forrest described the job cuts, from a workforce of about 4,500, as “personally tragic” and “heartbreaking”, but said the iron ore company was still making profits, with a break-even price of about US$39 a tonne.
(18) An elaborated model for the mining of ores, the applicability to underground workers and the comparability of loading quantities, based on the dosage measurement, are described.
(19) A ustralians are routinely being told that hefty mining taxes would hinder the country’s largest exports of coal and iron ore.
(20) While the iron ore sector went from representing 1.1% of GDP to its current share of 3.9%, the coal industry went from 1.1% of GDP to now representing about 1.4%.