Meaning of boring in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

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 pit or hole which has been bored.

• Fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.

• Any organism that bores into a hard surface

adjective

• Causing boredom; unable to engage or hold the interest.

  Example: What a boring film that was! I almost fell asleep.

• Used, or designed to be used, to drill holes.

  Example: boring equipment

• Capable of penetrating; piercing.