bore

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /bɔː(ɹ)/    美 /boɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
    — In another moment a huge wave, like a muddy tidal bore, but almost scaldingly hot, came sweeping round the bend up-stream.
  2. A hole drilled, bored, or milled through something.
    — the bore of a cannon
  3. The diameter of such a hole.
  4. The diameter of such a hole.; The diameter of a cylinder in a piston engine or compressor. especially
    — The bore times the stroke times the number of cylinders equals displacement.
  5. The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
  6. A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
  7. A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
  8. A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.; The place where such a well exists.
  9. One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
    — My neighbour is such a bore when he talks about his coin collection.
  10. Something dull or uninteresting.
    — What a bore that movie was! There was no action, and the dialogue was totally uncreative.
  11. Calibre; importance.
    — Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
动词 v.
  1. To inspire boredom in somebody. transitive
    — to bore someone to death
  2. simple past of bear form-of,past
  3. To make a hole through something. transitive
    — I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored.
  4. past participle of bear colloquial,form-of,participle,past
    — Q. When the Fireſhip appeared to be going down towards the Real, do you think that the Dorſetſhire could have bore down in Time, to have covered and aſſiſted her?
  5. To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool. intransitive
    — to bore for water or oil
  6. simple past of bare form-of,past,proscribed
  7. To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus. transitive
    — to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole
  8. To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through. transitive
    — to bore one’s way through a crowd
  9. To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns. intransitive
    — This timber does not bore well.
  10. To glare (as if to drill a hole with the eyes). intransitive
    — Their eyes bore into my back.
  11. To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.). slang,transitive
    — The right hand of Curtis was open too much ; but he nevertheless had the best of the hitting in this round, till Inglis bored him down, out of the ropes.
  12. To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort. intransitive
    — They take their flight […] boring to the west.
  13. To fool; to trick. obsolete

词形变化

bores present,singular,third-person boring participle,present bored participle,past bored past bores plural bores plural

词汇关系

近义词
bore banality snooze snoozer
反义词
interest thrillsville
下位词
Uninteresting person: dryasdust square spoilsport Uninteresting place: dullsville Uninteresting situation: routine rut same old same old same old story same old thing
衍生词
boreable boree bore in bore off bore out boring clam rebore tongue-boring unbore wood-boring artesian bore backbore Boraga bore draw bore-draw borefest borefield boregasm borehole boreism bore lake boreless bore needle boreout borescope boresight bore sight boresighting boresome bore water borewell chokebore counterbore crashing bore cross bore drawbore full bore full-bore less is a bore microbore nanobore overbore sealbore small-bore smoothbore throughbore wellbore windbore
相关词
borer boring tedium

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-der.
Proto-Germanic *burōną
Proto-West Germanic *borōn
Old English borian
Middle English boren
English bore
From Middle English boren, from Old English borian (“to pierce”), from Proto-West Germanic *borōn, from Proto-Germanic *burōną.
Compare Danish bore, Norwegian Bokmål bore, Dutch boren, German bohren, Old Norse bora. Cognate with Latin forō (“to bore, to pierce”), Latin feriō (“strike, cut”) and Albanian birë (“hole”). Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; compare German drillen.
词源 2
From Middle English *bore, bare, a borrowing from Old Norse bára (“billow, wave”), from Proto-Germanic *bērō (“that which bears or carries”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear”). Cognate with Icelandic bára (“billow, wave”), Faroese bára (“billow, wave”). Doublet of bier.
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