bore

See also: bóre, borë, böre, bőre, bóře, bōrě, and boré

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old English borian (“to pierce”), from Proto-Germanic *burōną. Confer Danish bore, Norwegian Bokmål bore, Dutch boren, German bohren, Old Norse bora. Cognate with Latin forō (“to bore, to pierce”), Latin feriō (“strike, cut”) and Albanian birë (“a hole”). Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; confer German drillen.

Boring a hole through a wooden plank with an auger.

Verb

bore (third-person singular simple present bores, present participle boring, simple past and past participle bored)

  1. (transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
    • Shakespeare
      He bores me with some trick.
    • Carlyle
      […] used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
  2. (transitive) To make a hole through something.
    • Shakespeare
      I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored.
  3. (intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
    to bore for water or oil
    An insect bores into a tree.
  4. (transitive) To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
    to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole
    • T. W. Harris
      short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore […] a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood
  5. (transitive) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
    to bore one's way through a crowd
    • John Gay
      What bustling crowds I bored.
  6. (intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
    This timber does not bore well.
  7. (intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
    • Dryden
      They take their flight […] boring to the west.
  8. (of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Crabb to this entry?)
  9. (obsolete) To fool; to trick.
    • Beaumont and Fletcher
      I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, / Baffled and bored, it seems.
Synonyms
  • See Thesaurus:bore
Antonyms
Translations
Bore of a Krupp 38 cm gun at Batterie Vara / Møvik Fort, Norway.

Noun

bore (plural bores)

  1. A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
    the bore of a cannon
    • Francis Bacon
      the bores of wind instruments
  2. The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
  3. A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
  4. A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
  5. One who inspires boredom or lack of interest.
  6. Something that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome affair.
    • Hawthorne
      It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.
  7. Calibre; importance.
    • Shakespeare
      Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:bore
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English *bore, bare, a borrowing from Old Norse bára (“billow, wave”). Cognate with Icelandic bára, Faroese bára.

Noun

bore (plural bores)

  1. A sudden and rapid flow of tide in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave; an eagre.
Translations

Etymology 3

Verb

bore

  1. simple past tense of bear

Anagrams

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bāregos (“morning”). Compare Breton beure, Old Irish báireach and Old Irish bárach, whence i mbáireach and i mbárach (“tomorrow”), modern Irish amáireach (Munster, Connaught) and Irish amárach (Donegal).

Noun

bore m

  1. morning

Mutation

Czech

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /borɛ/
  • Rhymes: -orɛ
  • Hyphenation: bo‧re

Noun

bore

  1. vocative singular of bor ("pine wood"):

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /boːrɛ/[1]
  • Rhymes: -oːrɛ
  • Hyphenation: bo‧re

Noun

bore

  1. vocative singular of bor ("boron"):

Anagrams

References

  1. ↑ Čmejrková, Světla; Hoffmannová, Jana; Klímová, Jana (2013) Čeština v pohledu synchronním a diachronním (in Czech), →ISBN, page 433

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

bore

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of boren

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔʁ/

Noun

bore m (uncountable)

  1. boron

Further reading

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse bora

Verb

bore (imperative bor, present tense borer, simple past and past participle bora or boret, present participle borende)

  1. to bore or drill (make a hole through something)

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

bore

  1. past participle of bera

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bāregos (“morning”). Compare Breton beure, Old Irish bárach (whence i mbárach (“tomorrow”), modern Irish amáireach and amárach).

Pronunciation

  • (North Wales) (standard) (colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈbɔrɛ/
  • (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈboːrɛ/, /ˈbɔrɛ/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

bore m (plural boreau)

  1. morning

Derived terms

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
bore fore more unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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