Boredom vs. Bore: What's the Difference?
Boredom and Bore Definitions
Boredom
The condition of being bored; ennui.
Bore
To make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill.
Boredom
(uncountable) The state of being bored.
Bore
To form (a tunnel, for example) by drilling, digging, or burrowing.
Boredom
(countable) An instance or period of being bored; A bored state.
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Bore
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).
Boredom
The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.
Bore
To proceed or advance steadily or laboriously
A destroyer boring through heavy seas.
Boredom
The realm of bores; bores, collectively.
Bore
To make weary by being dull, repetitive, or tedious
The movie bored us.
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Boredom
The feeling of being bored by something tedious
Bore
Past tense of bear1.
Bore
A hole or passage made by or as if by use of a drill.
Bore
A hollow, usually cylindrical chamber or barrel, as of a firearm.
Bore
The interior diameter of a hole, tube, or cylinder.
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Bore
The caliber of a firearm.
Bore
A drilling tool.
Bore
One that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious.
Bore
See tidal bore.
Bore
(transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
Reading books really bores me, films are much more exciting.
Bore someone to death
Bore
(transitive) To make a hole through something.
Bore
(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.
Bore
(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
Bore
(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
Bore
(intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
This timber does not bore well.
Bore
(intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
Bore
(obsolete) To fool; to trick.
Bore
A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
The bore of a cannon
Bore
The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
Bore
A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
Bore
A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
Bore
The place where such a well exists.
Bore
One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
My neighbour is such a bore when he talks about his coin collection.
Bore
Something dull or uninteresting.
What a bore that movie was! There was no action, and the dialogue was totally uncreative.
Bore
Calibre; importance.
Bore
A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
Bore
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.
Bore
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.
Bore
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.
Bore
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.
Bore
To befool; to trick.
I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned,Baffled and bored, it seems.
Bore
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).
Bore
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.
Bore
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
They take their flight . . . boring to the west.
Bore
To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; - said of a horse.
Bore
A hole made by boring; a perforation.
Bore
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.
Bore
The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
Bore
A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
Bore
Caliber; importance.
Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
Bore
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.
Bore
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.
Bore
A person who evokes boredom
Bore
A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
Bore
Diameter of a tube or gun barrel
Bore
A hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes
Bore
Cause to be bored
Bore
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
