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- Dictionarybore/bɔː/
verb
- 1. make (a hole) in something with a tool or by digging: "bore a hole in the wall to pass the cable through"
- 2. (of an athlete or racehorse) push another competitor out of the way.
noun
- 1. the hollow part inside a gun barrel or other tube.
- 2. short for borehole
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The meaning of BORE is to pierce with a turning or twisting movement of a tool. How to use bore in a sentence. to pierce with a turning or twisting movement of a tool; to make by boring or digging away material; to make a hole by or as if by boring…
BORE definition: 1. to talk or act in a way that makes someone lose interest: 2. to make someone feel very bored…. Learn more.
1. (Mechanical Engineering) to produce (a hole) in (a material) by use of a drill, auger, or other cutting tool. 2. (Mechanical Engineering) to increase the diameter of (a hole), as by an internal turning operation on a lathe or similar machine.
The bore is the internal diameter of the cylinder of an engine or pump. The engine is a three-liter unit with an 83 x 90mm bore and stroke. The four-cylinder, four-stroke engine has a bore of 80 mm. The thin-wall cylinders were used to achieve the 2.8-liter displacement with a 92-mm bore.
to make (a hole) by drilling with such an instrument. to form, make, or construct (a tunnel, mine, well, passage, etc.) by hollowing out, cutting through, or removing a core of material: to bore a tunnel through the Alps; to bore an oil well 3,000 feet deep.
Definitions of bore. verb. make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool. “carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall”. synonyms: drill. see more. noun. a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes. synonyms: bore-hole, drill hole.
1. If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting. [...] 2. See bore to tears/bore to death/bore stiff [...] 3. You describe someone as a bore when you think that they talk in a very uninteresting way. [...] More. Definitions of '-bore'
You’ll find it’s a terrible bore. 2 [ countable] someone who is boring, especially because they talk too much about themselves or about things that do not interest you He turned out to be a crashing bore (=used to emphasize that someone is very boring). 3 [ singular] the measurement of the width of the inside of a long hollow object such as a pi...
Synonyms for BORE: drill, pierce, punch, poke, puncture, hole, perforate, tap; Antonyms of BORE: fill, patch, seal, plug, busy, engage, interest, grip
Bore definition: To make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill.
