| bore | | |
| n. (person) | 1. bore, dullard | a person who evokes boredom. |
| ~ disagreeable person, unpleasant person | a person who is not pleasant or agreeable. |
| ~ gasbag, windbag | a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics. |
| ~ nudnick, nudnik | (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest. |
| ~ platitudinarian | a bore who makes excessive use of platitudes. |
| ~ stuffed shirt | a bore who is extremely formal, pompous, and old-fashioned. |
| n. (event) | 2. aegir, bore, eager, eagre, tidal bore | a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary). |
| ~ tidal current, tidal flow | the water current caused by the tides. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. bore, caliber, calibre, gauge | diameter of a tube or gun barrel. |
| ~ diam, diameter | the 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 hole | a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes. |
| ~ mining, excavation | the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth. |
| ~ excavation | a hole in the ground made by excavating. |
| ~ shot hole | drill hole for a charge of an explosive. |
| v. (emotion) | 5. bore, tire | cause to be bored. |
| v. (contact) | 6. bore, drill | make 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" |
| ~ spud | initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum.; "The well was spudded in April" |
| ~ counter-drill | drill in an opposite direction. |
| ~ trepan | cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery. |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| sumo | | |
| n. (act) | 1. sumo | a Japanese form of wrestling; you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the ground. |
| ~ sport | the occupation of athletes who compete for pay. |
| ~ rassling, grappling, wrestling | the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down. |
| ~ nihon, nippon, japan | a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building. |
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