Found 5 items, similar to boring.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: boring membosankan
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: boring bosan, membosankan, penggurdian
Indonesian → English (quick) Definition: bor anger, drill
English → English (WordNet) Definition: boring boring adj : so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; “a boring evening with uninteresting people”; “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”- Edmund Burke; “tedious days on the train”; “the tiresome chirping of a cricket”- Mark Twain; “other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome” [syn: deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome] boring n 1: the act of drilling [syn: drilling] 2: the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum [syn: drilling, oil production]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Boring Bore \Bore\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bored; p. pr. & vb. n. Boring.] [OE. borien, AS. borian; akin to Icel. bora, Dan. bore, D. boren, OHG. por?n, G. bohren, L. forare, Gr. ? to plow, Zend bar. [root]91.] 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. [1913 Webster] I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood. --T. W. Harris. [1913 Webster] 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. “What bustling crowds I bored.” --Gay. [1913 Webster] 4. To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester. [1913 Webster] He bores me with some trick. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Used to come and bore me at rare intervals. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster] 5. To befool; to trick. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, Baffled and bored, it seems. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] Boring \Bor"ing\, n. 1. The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks. [1913 Webster] One of the most important applications of boring is in the formation of artesian wells. --Tomlinson. [1913 Webster] 2. A hole made by boring. [1913 Webster] 3. pl. The chips or fragments made by boring. [1913 Webster] Boring bar, a revolving or stationary bar, carrying one or more cutting tools for dressing round holes. Boring tool (Metal Working), a cutting tool placed in a cutter head to dress round holes. --Knight. [1913 Webster]