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bore
  1. A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
  2. The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
  3. A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
  4. A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
  5. One who inspires boredom or lack of interest.
  6. Something that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome affair.
  7. Calibre; importance.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “Many people thought Thierry to be an insufferable bore for having no other interests besides collecting stamps.”
      “This solution is used to clean the bore of a gun by removing deposits from the peaks and valleys of barrel rifling.”
      “The Diesel engine has a bore of 120 mm and a stroke of 155 mm.”
boresighting
  1. The alignment of a microwave or radar antenna using purely optical means
  2. The alignment of the bore of a gun and its gunsight in parallel
boring
boredom
  1. (uncountable) The state of being bored.
  2. (countable) An instance or period of being bored; A bored state.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “With all this pressure, the crew relieves the boredom and tension of long flights by playing practical jokes.”
      “Repeated too regularly, of course, both strategies slide into predictable and familiar patterns which elicit only boredom.”
      “Because winning means overcoming levels of boredom that can drive a man mad.”
bore
  1. A sudden and rapid flow of tide in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave; an eagre.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Many people thought Thierry to be an insufferable bore for having no other interests besides collecting stamps.”
      “This solution is used to clean the bore of a gun by removing deposits from the peaks and valleys of barrel rifling.”
      “The Diesel engine has a bore of 120 mm and a stroke of 155 mm.”
boresomeness
  1. The state or condition of being boresome; dullness, uninterestingness.
borehole
  1. A hole bored into the ground to collect samples for analysis or to extract oil or water.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He also appealed to business houses to help the institution with the sinking of a borehole since the school has no water supply.”
      “I have a small tank which I use for drinking, cooking and washing my car because our borehole water is brak.”
      “Stage cementing can be accomplished by employing such valved cementers at successive stages within the borehole.”
borewell
  1. A well constructed by boring a vertical hole (often subsequently fitted with a casing).
  2. Examples:
    1. “The association has employed a gardener who uses water from the park's borewell.”
      “Workers of various political parties double up as contractors and lay water pipes connecting the borewell to people's houses throughout Sangam Vihar.”
boredness
  1. The state or condition of being bored; boredom.
boreout
  1. (informal) A malaise due to excessive boredom at work
  2. Examples:
    1. “Unfortunately, it is burnout that always gets noticed and people with boreout usually don't do much about their state of despondency.”
boringness
  1. The state or condition of being boring.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “And even they might wonder how a fast-moving serial could be transformed into what looks like a two-hour music video of intense boringness.”
      “So anyway, Gary was telling me that it had taken him a long, long time to come to terms with his boringness.”
      “I'd driven the poor chap over the edge of biographical desperation with my stark boringness.”
borefest
  1. (informal) An extremely boring event.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “After attending the company's annual meeting, I realized it had turned into a complete borefest when even the CEO was struggling to keep his eyes open.”
boreholes
  1. plural of borehole
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The site was previously occupied by a brewery, which used boreholes to provide water.”
      “The only water available was in deep boreholes, which were situated in villages and carefully guarded.”
      “I learned later that these boreholes, which were dug by cattle ranchers and reached down 100 meters and more, had lowered the water table.”
borefests
borewells
  1. plural of borewell
  2. Examples:
    1. “The sewage drains are open and the only sources of water are the borewells that are drying up.”
boredoms
  1. plural of boredom
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It flourishes on the back of faxes and in the margins of copybooks, doodles reveal a billion private boredoms.”
      “This profound boredom, he states, is the basis of the two other boredoms.”
      “Gone were the boredoms and claustrophobias of Parliament, the discomforts and pains of high-speed coach travel, however he might later look back on them.”
borings
  1. plural of boring
  2. Examples:
    1. “None of the borings in the petioles and root mantle are lined with wound tissue or fecal pellets.”
      “A few samples exhibited particularly prevalent areas of endolithic borings around the margins of the rostra.”
      “In the root mantle, the borings are somewhat ramose and wind around the roots in the ground tissue.”
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