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boring 音標拼音: [b'ɔrɪŋ] a. 煩人的,無聊的,無趣的 煩人的,無聊的,無趣的 boring adj 1: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; " a boring evening with uninteresting people"; " the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; " a dull play"; " his competent but dull performance"; " a ho- hum speaker who couldn' t capture their attention"; " what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; " tedious days on the train"; " the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; " other people' s dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [ synonym: { boring}, { deadening}, { dull}, { ho- hum}, { irksome}, { slow}, { tedious}, { tiresome}, { wearisome}] n 1: the act of drilling [ synonym: { drilling}, { boring}] 2: the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum [ synonym: { boring}, { drilling}, { oil production}] Bore \ Bore\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Bored}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Boring}.] [ OE. borien, AS. borian; akin to Icel. bora, Dan. bore, D. boren, OHG. por? n, G. bohren, L. forare, Gr. ? to plow, Zend bar. [ root] 91.] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] I' ll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. 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. [ 1913 Webster] Short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood. -- T. W. Harris. [ 1913 Webster] 3. 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. " What bustling crowds I bored." -- Gay. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester. [ 1913 Webster] He bores me with some trick. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Used to come and bore me at rare intervals. -- Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To befool; to trick. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, Baffled and bored, it seems. -- Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster]
Boring \ Bor" ing\, n. 1. The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks. [ 1913 Webster] One of the most important applications of boring is in the formation of artesian wells. -- Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A hole made by boring. [ 1913 Webster] 3. pl. The chips or fragments made by boring. [ 1913 Webster] { Boring bar}, a revolving or stationary bar, carrying one or more cutting tools for dressing round holes. { Boring tool} ( Metal Working), a cutting tool placed in a cutter head to dress round holes. -- Knight. [ 1913 Webster] 63 Moby Thesaurus words for " boring": acupunctuation, acupuncture, arid, bore, boresome, broach, dead, drab, dreary, drill hole, drudging, dry, dull, empiercement, exhausting, fatiguing, fixing, flat, goring, gray, humdrum, impalement, irksome, lancing, long- drawn- out, monotonous, penetration, perforation, piercing, pricking, prolix, punching, puncture, puncturing, repetitious, repetitive, same, samely, skewering, soporific, stale, stupefyingly boring, stuporific, tedious, terebration, tired, tiresome, tiring, transfixation, transfixion, transforation, trepanning, trephining, unending, unexciting, uninteresting, unrelieved, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, wordy, yawny |
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