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boring    音标拼音: [b'ɔrɪŋ]
a. 烦人的,无聊的,无趣的

烦人的,无聊的,无趣的

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.
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I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored.
--Shak.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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4. To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to
trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
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He bores me with some trick. --Shak.
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Used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
--Carlyle.
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5. To befool; to trick. [Obs.]
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I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned,
Baffled and bored, it seems. --Beau. & Fl.
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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.
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One of the most important applications of boring is
in the formation of artesian wells. --Tomlinson.
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2. A hole made by boring.
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3. pl. The chips or fragments made by boring.
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{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.
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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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