Definition of bores in English

Wiktionary

bores (Noun)
Plural of bore.

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bores, verb, present, 3rd person singular of bore (infinitive).
bores, noun, plural of bore.

WordNet

Noun Plural: bores
bore - a person who evokes boredom
		dullard
		disagreeable person, unpleasant person a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
		windbag, gasbag a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics
		nudnick, nudnik (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest
		platitudinarian a bore who makes excessive use of platitudes
bore - a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes
		bore-hole, drill hole
		excavation the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"
		mining, excavation the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
bore - diameter of a tube or gun barrel
		gauge, caliber, calibre
		diam, diameter the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference
bore - a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
		tidal bore, eagre, aegir, eager
Verb bears, bearing, borne
bore - make a hole, especially 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"; "carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall"
		drill
		cut grow through the gums; "The new tooth is cutting"
		spud initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum; "The well was spudded in April"
		counter-drill drill in an opposite direction
		trepan cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery
bore - cause to be bored
		tire
		interest excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of

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Wiktionary

bore (Noun)
A hole drilled or milled through something, as in the bore of a cannon.
bore (Noun)
The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired.
bore (Noun)
A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
bore (Noun)
One who inspires boredom or lack of interest.
bore (Noun)
A sudden and rapid flow of tide in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave; an eagre.
bore (Verb)
To make a hole through something.
bore (Verb)
To inspire boredom in somebody; to disinterest.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

bore (imp.)
of Bear
bore (v. t.)
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.
bore (v. t.)
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.
bore (v. t.)
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 (v. t.)
To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
bore (v. t.)
To befool; to trick.
bore (v. i.)
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 (v. i.)
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 (v. i.)
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
bore (v. i.)
To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
bore (n.)
A hole made by boring; a perforation.
bore (n.)
The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
bore (n.)
The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
bore (n.)
A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
bore (n.)
Caliber; importance.
bore (n.)
A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
bore (n.)
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 (n.)
Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.
bore
imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

bore
A wave caused by an incoming tide traveling up an estuary.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

bore
bōr, v.t. to pierce so as to form a hole; to weary or annoy.—n. a hole made by boring: the size of the cavity of a gun; a person or thing that wearies (not from the foregoing, according to Dr Murray, who says both verb and noun arose after 1750).—ns. Bor′er, the person or thing that bores: a genus of sea-worms that pierce wood; a name common to many insects that pierce wood; Bor′ing, the act of making a hole in anything: a hole made by boring: (pl.) the chips produced by boring. [A.S. borian, to bore; cf. Ger. bohren; allied to L. for-āre, to bore, Gr. pharynx, the gullet.]
bore
bōr, did bear, pa.t. of Bear
bore
bōr, n. a tidal flood which rushes with great violence up the estuaries of certain rivers, also called Eagre. [Ice. bára, a wave or swell.]

Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️

bore
See the article CANNON.

Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥

bore
Of a piece of ordnance includes all the part bored out, viz., the cylinder, the chamber (if there is one), and the conical or spherical surface connecting them.

Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅

bore
A tedious, troublesome man or woman, one who bores the ears of his hearers with an uninteresting tale; a term much in fashion about the years 1780 and 1781.