Canadian French Meaning of bore

ennuyant

Other Canadian French words related to ennuyant

Definitions and Meaning of bore in English

Wordnet

bore (n)

a person who evokes boredom

a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

diameter of a tube or gun barrel

a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes

Wordnet

bore (v)

cause to be bored

make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool

Webster

bore (imp.)

of Bear

Webster

bore (v. t.)

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.

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.

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.

To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.

To befool; to trick.

Webster

bore (v. i.)

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).

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.

To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.

Webster

bore (n.)

A hole made by boring; a perforation.

The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.

The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.

A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.

Caliber; importance.

A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.

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.

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.

Webster

bore ()

imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.

FAQs About the word bore

ennuyant

a person who evokes boredom, a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary), diameter of a tube or g

Exercice,percer,coup de poing,couper,trou,perforer,piquer,piqûre,Énigme,Robinet

remplir,patch,prise,phoque

bordure => bordure, bordraging => non disponible, bordrag => conférence, bordman => contrôleur, bordlode => Cargaison,