Bore
Past form of: Bearverb — past tense: bored ; past participle: bored ; present participle: boring ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (to make a circular hole by twisting a boring toot with a cutting edge, to make [a tunnel. hole, etc.] by, or as by drilling) ខួង, ចោះរន្ធ
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) (to make weary) ធ្វើឱ្យធុញទ្រាន់ឬអផ្សុក
- 3.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ធ្វើអោយធុញទ្រាន់, ធ្វើអោយជិនឆ្អន់
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- A hole made by boring; a perforation.
- 2.
- The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
- 3.
- The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
- 4.
- A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
- 5.
- A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
- 6.
- 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.
- 7.
- 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.
verb — past tense: bored ; past participle: bored ; present participle: boring ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
- 4.
- (TRANSITIVE) To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
- 5.
- (INTRANSITIVE) 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).
- 6.
- (INTRANSITIVE) 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.
- 7.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- 8.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
- 1.
- Caliber, importance
- 2.
- To befool, to trick