bore

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for bore

bore 🔊 /bɔˈɹ/

bore : තව් විදිනවා

bore : තව්වක් විදිනවා

bore : පසාරු කරනවා

bore : කණිනවා

bore : ඉසිලුවා

bore : තුවක්කු කඳේ සිදුර

bore : පසා කරනවා

bore : තද වඩදිය රැළ

bore : කරදරකාරයා

bore : කරච්චල් කරනවා

bore : කරච්චලය

bore : කුහරය

bore : තව් විෂ්කම්භය

bore : තව්ව

bore : දැරුවා

bore : කරදර කරනවා

bore : තව්

bore : තවු විදිනවා

bore : බෝර ව

bore : දිය ගොබය

bore : තව් ලොකු කරනවා

bore definition

Imperative. of 1st & 2d Bear.

Imperative. of Bear

Transitive verb.

  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.
  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.
  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.
  4. To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
  5. To befool; to trick.

Intransitive verb.

  1. 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).
  2. 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.
  3. To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
  4. To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.

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. Caliber; importance.
  6. A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.