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ALL meanings of boring

bor·ing
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  • adjective boring Someone or something boring is so dull and uninteresting that they make people tired and impatient. 3
  • noun boring the act or process of making or enlarging a hole 3
  • noun boring the hole made in this way 3
  • noun boring a fragment, particle, chip, etc, produced during boring 3
  • adjective boring dull; repetitious; uninteresting 3
  • adjective boring for making holes 3
  • adjective boring dull, tiresome, etc. 3
  • noun boring the action of one that bores 3
  • noun boring a hole made by boring 3
  • noun boring chips, flakes, etc. made by boring 3
  • noun boring Boring is the process of creating a larger circular hole from a hole that has already been drilled. 3
  • adjective boring causing or marked by boredom: a boring discussion; to have a boring time. 1
  • noun boring a hole made or enlarged by boring. 1
  • noun boring the inside diameter of a hole, tube, or hollow cylindrical object or device, such as a bushing or bearing, engine cylinder, or barrel of a gun. 1
  • verb with object boring to pierce (a solid substance) with some rotary cutting instrument. 1
  • verb with object boring to make (a hole) by drilling with such an instrument. 1
  • verb with object boring to form, make, or construct (a tunnel, mine, well, passage, etc.) by hollowing out, cutting through, or removing a core of material: to bore a tunnel through the Alps; to bore an oil well 3000 feet deep. 1
  • verb with object boring Machinery. to enlarge (a hole) to a precise diameter with a cutting tool within the hole, by rotating either the tool or the work. 1
  • verb with object boring to force (an opening), as through a crowd, by persistent forward thrusting (usually followed by through or into); to force or make (a passage). 1
  • verb without object boring to make a hole in a solid substance with a rotary cutting instrument. 1
  • verb without object boring Machinery. to enlarge a hole to a precise diameter. 1
  • verb without object boring (of a substance) to admit of being bored: Certain types of steel do not bore well. 1
  • verb boring simple past tense of bear1 . 1
  • adjective boring sth: tedious, dull 1
  • adjective boring person: uninteresting 1
  • noun boring machining: drilling 1
  • noun boring hole 1
  • noun boring earth sample 1
  • noun boring A pit or hole which has been bored. 0
  • noun boring Fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled. 0
  • verb boring present participle of bore. 0
  • adjective boring Causing boredom. 0
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