Meaning of BORING
| Pronunciation: | | 'bowring
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- [n] the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
- [n] the act of drilling
- [adj] 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"
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BORING is a 6 letter word that starts with B. |
| | Synonyms: | | deadening, drilling, dull, ho-hum, irksome, oil production, slow, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, wearisome |
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| | See Also: | | creating by removal, production | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
One of the most important applications of boring is
in the formation of artesian wells. --Tomlinson.
2. A hole made by boring.
3. pl. The chips or fragments made by boring.
{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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| | Related Terms: | | 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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