Meaning of bore in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.

  Example: the bore of a cannon

• The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.

• A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.

• A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.

• One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.

• Something dull or uninteresting

• Calibre; importance.

verb

• To inspire boredom in somebody.

• To make a hole through something.

• To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.

  Example: An insect bores into a tree.

• To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.

  Example: to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole

• To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.

  Example: to bore one's way through a crowd

• To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.

  Example: This timber does not bore well.

• To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

• (of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.

• To fool; to trick.

noun

• A sudden and rapid flow of tide occuring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.

verb

• To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.

  Example: Judging from the look on his face, he wasn't bearing good news.

• To support, sustain, or endure.

• To support, keep up, or maintain.

• To press or impinge upon.

• To produce, yield, give birth to.

• (originally nautical) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).

  Example: By my readings, we're bearing due south, so we should turn about ten degrees east.

• To gain or win.