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adj
Causing boredom or tiredness; making one feel tired and impatient.
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adj
Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Manglish
Synonyms: bored
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adj
Used, designed to be used, or able to drill holes.
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adj
Capable of penetrating; piercing.
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name
A surname.
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name
An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.
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name
An unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.
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name
An unincorporated community in Sullivan County, Tennessee, United States.
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noun
The act or process of boring holes; such practice as an area of expertise in manufacturing.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The act or process of boring holes; such practice as an area of expertise in manufacturing.
Enlarging an existing hole with a single-point cutting tool or a boring head (usually with high precision and accuracy regarding the roundness and size of the hole).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: engineering, machining, mechanical-engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Broader terms: machining, cutting
noun
The act or process of boring holes; such practice as an area of expertise in manufacturing.
Drilling.
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Usage: countable, especially, uncountable
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Broader terms: cutting
noun
A pit or hole which has been bored.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
One of the fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
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Usage: countable, plural-normally, uncountable
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Synonyms: chip, swarf
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verb
present participle and gerund of bore
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Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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adjective satellite
so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness- Edmund Burke- Mark Twain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome
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noun
the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: drilling, oil production
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Broader terms: production
noun
the act of drilling
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Synonyms: drilling
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Broader terms: creating by removal
History
Etymology tree Middle English boren Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge Middle English boryng English boring Inherited from Middle English boryng (“making a hole”). By surface analysis, bore + -ing.
Across languages
112 source translations are retained for this English entry.
