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Boring   /bˈɔrɪŋ/   Listen
Boring

adjective
1.
So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness.  Synonyms: deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome.  "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" , "Tedious days on the train" , "The tiresome chirping of a cricket" , "Other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
noun
1.
The act of drilling.  Synonym: drilling.
2.
The act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum.  Synonyms: drilling, oil production.



Bore

verb
(past & past part. bored; pres. part. boring)
1.
Cause to be bored.  Synonym: tire.
2.
Make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool.  Synonym: drill.  "Drill a hole into the wall" , "Drill for oil" , "Carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall"



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"Boring" Quotes from Famous Books



... drill, which is a tool of substantial proportions, is adapted not only for ordinary drilling work, but also for turning the ends of boiler shells, for cutting out of flue holes tube boring, etc. As will be seen from our engraving, the pillar which supports the radial arm is mounted on a massive baseplate, which also carries a circular table 6 ft. in diameter, this table having a worm-wheel cast on it as shown. This table ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 • Various

... two with my favorite, I made my way across the valley, boring and wallowing through the drifts, to learn as definitely as possible how the other birds were spending their time. The Yosemite birds are easily found during the winter because all of them excepting the Ouzel are restricted to ...
— The Mountains of California • John Muir

... Jesse watched, working his fly to where he saw a heavy fish moving. An instant and he struck, the reel screeching as the fish made its run. This time the fish did not jump, but played deep, boring and surging, but at last John conquered it and Jesse slipped the ...
— The Young Alaskans on the Missouri • Emerson Hough

... scene, first builder of iron boats, and a leading iron-founder of his day, an original Captain of Industry of the embryonic type, who began working in a forge for three dollars a week. He cast a cylinder eighteen inches in diameter, and invented a boring machine which bored it accurately, thus remedying one of Watt's principal difficulties. This cylinder was substituted for the tin-lined cylinder of the triumphant Kinneil engine. Satisfactory as were the results of the engine ...
— James Watt • Andrew Carnegie

... diameter vertical boring-mill was the first machine used in making these experiments, and large locomotive tires, made out of hard steel of uniform quality, were day after day cut up into chips in gradually learning how to make, shape, and use the ...
— The Principles of Scientific Management • Frederick Winslow Taylor


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