Bore vs. Beared — Which is Correct Spelling?
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Which is correct: Bore or Beared
How to spell Bore?
Bore
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Beared
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Bore Definitions
Make (a hole) in something with a tool or by digging
The drill can bore through rock
Bore a hole in the wall to pass the cable through
His eyes bored into hers
(of an athlete or racehorse) push another competitor out of the way.
Cause (someone) to feel weary and uninterested by dull talk or behaviour
Timid women quickly bore her silly
She is too polite to bore us with anecdotes
The hollow part inside a gun barrel or other tube.
Short for borehole
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A person whose talk or behaviour is dull and uninteresting
He can be a crashing bore
A steep-fronted wave caused by the meeting of two tides or by the constriction of a tide rushing up a narrow estuary.
To make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill.
To form (a tunnel, for example) by drilling, digging, or burrowing.
To make a hole in or through something with or as if with a drill
"three types of protein that enable the cells to bore in and out of blood vessels" (Elisabeth Rosenthal).
To proceed or advance steadily or laboriously
A destroyer boring through heavy seas.
To make weary by being dull, repetitive, or tedious
The movie bored us.
Past tense of bear1.
A hole or passage made by or as if by use of a drill.
A hollow, usually cylindrical chamber or barrel, as of a firearm.
The interior diameter of a hole, tube, or cylinder.
The caliber of a firearm.
A drilling tool.
One that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious.
See tidal bore.
(transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
Reading books really bores me, films are much more exciting.
Bore someone to death
(transitive) To make a hole through something.
(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.
(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
(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
(intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
This timber does not bore well.
(intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
(obsolete) To fool; to trick.
A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
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 such a well exists.
One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
My neighbour is such a bore when he talks about his coin collection.
Something dull or uninteresting.
What a bore that movie was! There was no action, and the dialogue was totally uncreative.
Calibre; importance.
A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.
I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored.
To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.
Short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood.
To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
He bores me with some trick.
Used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
To befool; to trick.
I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned,Baffled and bored, it seems.
To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).
To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
They take their flight . . . boring to the west.
To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; - said of a horse.
A hole made by boring; a perforation.
The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
The bores of wind instruments.
Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing.
The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
Caliber; importance.
Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.
A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.
A person who evokes boredom
A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
Diameter of a tube or gun barrel
A hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes
Cause to be bored
Make a hole with a pointed power or hand tool;
Don't drill here, there's a gas pipe
Drill a hole into the wall
Drill for oil
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