Home

English to Binisaya - Cebuano Dictionary and Thesaurus.

Dictionary Binisaya to EnglishEnglish to BinisayaSense
Word:

 

Word - rootword - affixes
laayan - laay - -an~
la.a.yan. - 3 syllables

-an = laayan
laayan

laayan [la.á.yan.] : bore (v.)
laay [lá.ay.] : boring (adj.)

Derivatives of laay


Glosses:
bore
n. (person)1. bore, dullarda person who evokes boredom.
~ disagreeable person, unpleasant persona person who is not pleasant or agreeable.
~ gasbag, windbaga boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
~ nudnick, nudnik(Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest.
~ platitudinariana bore who makes excessive use of platitudes.
~ stuffed shirta bore who is extremely formal, pompous, and old-fashioned.
n. (event)2. aegir, bore, eager, eagre, tidal borea high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
~ tidal current, tidal flowthe water current caused by the tides.
n. (attribute)3. bore, caliber, calibre, gaugediameter of a tube or gun barrel.
~ diam, diameterthe length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
n. (artifact)4. bore, bore-hole, drill holea hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes.
~ mining, excavationthe act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth.
~ excavationa hole in the ground made by excavating.
~ shot holedrill hole for a charge of an explosive.
v. (emotion)5. bore, tirecause to be bored.
v. (contact)6. bore, drillmake a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool.; "don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall"
~ spudinitiate drilling operations, as for petroleum.; "The well was spudded in April"
~ counter-drilldrill in an opposite direction.
~ trepancut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery.
~ cutseparate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope"