What's the difference between boring and menial?

Boring


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bore
  • (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.
  • (n.) A hole made by boring.
  • (n.) The chips or fragments made by boring.

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.

Menial


Definition:

  • (n.) Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
  • (n.) Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean.
  • (n.) A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices.
  • (n.) A person of a servile character or disposition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
  • (2) One of the biggest losers are the estimated 12-20 million illegal immigrants living in the US, most of whom play an integral role in the economy, doing menial jobs that citizens do not want.
  • (3) Having failed to get into Rada, Wesker embarked on a series of menial jobs: bookseller's assistant, plumber's mate and, at the Bell hotel in Norwich, kitchen porter.
  • (4) The new movie marks a partial return to the thematic territory of Rosetta , which concerned a teenage girl scrabbling around for menial jobs.
  • (5) In the UK, the interrelated challenges we face include an ageing population; technological advances that wipe out whole occupations; global competition and the large-scale underemployment of individuals, mostly women, overqualified for the menial jobs they have struggled to acquire.
  • (6) Nonetheless, the workers' movement was once dedicated to the eventual abolition of all menial, tedious, grinding work.
  • (7) The system applies domain-specific knowledge to manage the menial details and automate most of the decision-making steps involved in the design process.
  • (8) • On placement, put your ego to one side and take on any task, however menial: it will open the door to new experiences.
  • (9) If they are poor, it wants them to be invisible, flitting uncomplainingly from one menial job to the next.
  • (10) The prosecution claimed that the man, who left home when he was 11 to take up a series of menial jobs in Delhi, was the most violent of the attackers of the girl last December.
  • (11) Like ads for other menial jobs, they use absurd and insulting hyperbole in inverse proportion to the quality of the position, as though seeing the word SUPERSTAR enough times will make you forget how boring the duties are.
  • (12) If that became true over the past 10 years, it was only in the "we are all middle class now" sense of New Labour – not in the sense of actually eliminating menial work, or the divide between workers and owners.
  • (13) There is also Hunt's plan to make all student nurses spend a year of their training doing the more menial tasks in healthcare usually done by healthcare assistants – feeding, washing and moving patients, for example.
  • (14) We suggest that prosperity which has led to use of foreign laborers in menial jobs has caused this slow down.
  • (15) The Home Office says the menial work is provided on a voluntary basis to meet their “recreational and intellectual” needs and provide “relief from boredom”.
  • (16) It’s about spotting that and thinking about how you can influence it.” That’s the dream Clara Summers (not her real name), 33, clings to as she contemplates quitting her job in events at a Copenhagen bar, where a “bro-centric” atmosphere means that, as the only woman in the management team, she is handed all the menial tasks.
  • (17) Menial tasks in South Africa are invariably performed by Africans.
  • (18) Professional politicians, and their intellectual menials, will no doubt blather on about “Islamic fundamentalism”, the “western alliance” and “full-spectrum response”.
  • (19) 15.5% were not in school and unemployed, and 28% worked at menial jobs.
  • (20) Smartphones at the ready: TechCrunch has given Alfred , an outsourcing app for your most menial tasks, its Disrupt Cup – an award that recognises the best new start-ups.