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Definition: Boring |
BoringAdjective1. 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". Noun1. The act of drilling. 2. The act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "boring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references) |
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Geography | Method of driving probe into soil or rock and of measuring resistance to ramming down or torsion in order to estimate the position and thickness of soil layers, the relative strength and composition of soil, and also brittleness and quality of rock. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Enlarging a previously produced hole to a larger diameter. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Increasing the diameter of a hole over its full length or depth. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Enlarging a bore on a lathe with rotating workpiece and non rotating axially moved tool. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A hole or well drilled or bored principally by mechanical means in order to explore geological conditions and/or to tap oil deposits. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Holes or bores that are drilled in the ground. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A. The cutting or drilling of a hole for blasting, water infusion, exploration, or water or combustible gases drainage. See also:percussive boring; rotary boring. b. The drilling of deep holes for the exploitation or exploration of oilfields. The term "drilling" is used similarly in connection withmetalliferous deposits. (references) | |
Multilingual Slang | Russian (zlo'ebuchy ). (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Boring is the formation of a cylindrical hole in a solid material.
The boring for a tunnel or shaft is done by a highly specialized tunnel boring machine (TBM). Machines for boring holes in engineering materials such as metal and concrete are usually called drills or drilling machines.
For boredom see Suffering.
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Suffering is any unwanted condition and the corrresponding negative emotion. It is usually associated with pain and unhappiness, but any condition can be suffering if it is unwanted. Antonyms include happiness or pleasure.In a phrase like "suffering from a disease" emphasis is on having the disease, less on the unhappiness it causes.
Related terms are sadness, sorrow and grief. Some view anger as a type of suffering.
Boredom, or ennui (a French word, from Old French enui) is a reactive state to wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious stimuli: suffering from a lack of interesting things to see, hear, etc., or do (physically or intellectually), while not in the mood of "doing nothing". Temporarily being in a situation of boredom may also be felt as a waste of time, but then it is usually considered worse than just that. Alternatively one may have the feeling that boredom is caused by having too much time.
Buddhism
In Buddhism, suffering is called dukkha. The fundamental principles of Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths, describe dukkha and a method of ending it.
Law
The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1984 defines "torture" as involving "suffering":
Similarly, the Rome statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998, defines "torture" as a crime against humanity as involving "suffering":
- "...the term "torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions. "
- ""Torture" means the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, upon a person in the custody or under the control of the accused; except that torture shall not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions."
Christianity
"Suffering belongs to the discipline of all Christ's followers (Romans 8:17; 2 Corinthians 1:7; Galatians 3:4; Philippians 3:10; 1 Thessalonians 2:2; 2 Thessalonians 1:5; 2 Timothy 2:12; 2 Timothy 3:12; James 5:10; 1 Peter 2:20 f.; 1 Peter 3:14, 1 Peter 3:17; 1 Peter 4:1, 1 Peter 4:13, 1 Peter 4:16; 1 Peter 5:10). Such suffering is called a suffering for God's or Christ's sake (Jeremiah 15:15; Acts 9:16; Philippians 1:29; 2 Timothy 1:12). This fellowship in suffering unites us with the saints of God in all times (James 5:10), and is indeed a fellowship with the Lord Himself (Philippians 3:10), who uses this discipline to mold us more and more according to His character."1
Language
An alternative meaning of "suffer" is "to allow".
Related topics
- Utopia
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Synonyms: BoringSynonyms: deadening (adj), dull (adj), ho-hum (adj), irksome (adj), slow (adj), tedious (adj), tiresome (adj), wearisome (adj), drilling (n), oil production (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dullness | Phrase: davus sum non Aedipus; deadly dull and boring, DDB. |
Boring, tiresome, tedious. | |
Frequency | Old-hat, boring, well-known, trivial. |
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Screenplays | Boring conversation anyway (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas) Confess, don't be boring, say yes, don't be dull, a fact you're ignoring, it's better to lose your skull cap than your skull (History of the World Part 1; writing credit: Mel Brooks) It's all so boring here, Margo -- there's nothing but playboys and tennis pros (The Living Daylights; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) There's no guilt in baseball, and it's never boring, which makes it like sex. (Bull Durham; writing credit: Ron Shelton.) Boring, Sidney, Boring (Sid and Nancy; writing credit: Alex Cox; Abbe Wool) | |
Lyrics | Life is all to short to spend on doing boring things, (We Live; performing artist: Bosson) Love can be so boring (Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning); performing artist: Vertical Horizon) | |
Clever | Boredom sets into boring minds. (references; author: unknown) Relationships can be boring, not people! (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Deadly Boring (2001) My Dad's a Boring Nerd (1997) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Rock boring sea urchin. Credit: Sanctuaries. |  | Foresters are boring a tree. Credit: Terry Tuttle. |
 | WAVES Aviation Metalsmiths and Aviation Machinist's Mates (AMM) working on an SBD "Dauntless" aircraft in the air station's Assembly and Repair Department, 24 July 1943. Working on the wing, at left, are Seaman 1st Class (AMM) Annia Marie Garman and Seaman 1st Class Frances O. Culpepper. On and inside the plane are (left to right) AMM 3rd Class Audrey Anderson, AMM 3rd Class Jane Carlisle, AMM 3rd Class Betty Jo Visson, Seaman 1st Class Mary Jane Boring and Seaman 1st Class (AMM) Clara R. Bumgarner. Credit: NAVY. |  | Military railroad operations in northern Virginia(?): two men boring holes in bridge trestles and man with Haupt's Torpedo. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Boring 48 holes at once. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Production. 155mm shells. Boring the burster tube recess of 155mm shell on a Denver lathe in a converted auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Vertical drill boring hole for blasting, Mahoning pit. Hibbing, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sheaffer fountain pen factory, Ft. Madison, Iowa. Boring holes. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Maytag Washing Machine Company. Profiller by which boring is done. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | I say, do suggest something new. This is becoming too boring. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Dockland Apartments" by Aaron Gardner Commentary: "Not sure if this is a little too boring, but it's here in case anyone finds use for it :)." | "Bar 2" by Annette Gulick Commentary: "A boring looking airport bar." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Baudelaire | Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. |
Elias Canetti | Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. |
Sidney J. Harris | Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring. |
Tori Amos | Women must understand that simply attacking or hating all men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power. All it will do is make her puke eventually. Rather than say--all men are bastards-- let's say--all men are infants, until they decide to be men--Calling them bastards is boring at this stage. |
Voltaire | Every style that is not boring is a good one. |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Beautiful, charming, devastatingly intelligent, at last I'd got her to myself for a bit and was plying her with a bit of talk when this friend of yours barges up and says 'Hey doll, is this guy boring you |
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Health | Experts say that if you feel drowsy during the day, even during boring activities, you haven’t had enough sleep. (references) | |
Individuals affected with the disorder describe the sensations as pulling, drawing, crawling, wormy, boring, tingling, pins and needles, prickly, and sometimes painful sensations that are usually accompanied by an overwhelming urge to move the legs. Sudden muscle jerks may also occur. (references) | ||
Business | Key ship building projects and modernization of shipyards will require advanced plate and tube processing and welding equipment; five-axis machine centers, double housing machining centers, and numerical controlled boring and milling machines. (references) | |
Economic History | Indonesia | American suppliers are particularly strong for the following equipment: tools for drilling (not rock drilling), pile-drivers and pile-extractors, self propelled boring and sinking machinery, parts of boring/sinking machinery, drill pipe of a kind used in drilling for oil and gas, other line pipe of a kind used for oil and gas pipelines, and floating or submersible drilling or production platforms. (references) |
Indonesia | In 2000 (preliminary figures), the import value increased to $353 million, but US products' share decreased to 30%. American suppliers are particularly strong in the following areas: front end shovel loaders; pile-drivers and pile-extractors; coal or rock cutters and tunneling machinery; other continuous-action elevators; bulldozers; other bulldozers and angledozers; self-propelled boring or sinking machinery; buckets, shovels, grabs and gribs; other buckets, shovels, grabs and gribs of heading No. 84.29; parts of boring and sinking machinery; crushing and grinding machines for stones; and other crushing or grinding machines for stones. (references) | |
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Jodie Foster | Don't ask me. I don't know. I don't know. But as I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive. |
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| "Boring" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.54% of the time. "Boring" is used about 1,443 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.54% | 1,394 | 5,750 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 3.46% | 50 | 48,117 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,443 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "boring" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Boring | Last name | 1,000 | 7,696 |
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| Japan | Koken Boring Machine Co., Ltd. |
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1. Boring, OR |
Expressions using "boring": be boring ♦ Boring bar ♦ boring event ♦ boring journal ♦ boring machine ♦ boring mashine ♦ boring mill ♦ boring person ♦ Boring tool ♦ California method of boring ♦ deadly boring ♦ deadly dull and boring ♦ test boring ♦ turning and boring mill ♦ vertical boring mill ♦ very boring ♦ well boring. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "boring": boring-but-sometimes-funny, boring-my, boring-set, boring-sounding. | |
Ending with "boring": wood-boring. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "boring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vervelig (stodgy, tiresome). (various references) | |
Albanian | shpues (penetrating, perforator, punch, puncher), shpimi, shpim (drilling, jab, perforation, poke, prick, pricking, puncture, sinking, tingle), i mërzitshëm (annoying, bothersome, corny, dead alive, depressing, dissatisfactory, dreary, dry, dull, fatiguing, fierce, pesky, plaguesome, pragmatical, slow, tedious, tiresome, weariful, wearisome, weary). (various references) | |
Arabic | ممل (dreary, dull, humdrum, irksome, iterative, monotonous, mundane, ponderous, slow, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, uninteresting, vapid, weariful, wearisome, weary), مضجر (annoying, dim, dull, humdrum, irksome, iterative, pest, ponderous, prosy, slow, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, vapid, weariful, wearisome, weary), المثقب بمثقب, ثقيل (cumbersome, dully, heaver, heavy, hefty, hulking, leaden, lumbering, massive, oppressive, ponderous, stodgy, uninteresting, unwieldy, weighty), ثاقب (acute, hand drill, keen, penetrating, perforator, piercing, sagacious, sharp), بارد (bleak, chilly, cold, coldish, cool, coolly, dank, distant, flat, glacial, meaningless, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, raw, silly, unfriendly, wintry). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сондажен отвор (bore), който пробива, отегчителен (moldy, pesky, pestilent, prolix, prosy, provoking, tiresome, weary, wearying), пробиване (break, drilling, perforation, pricking, puncture, rupture), досаден (aggravating, annoying, bothersome, importunate, intrusive, irksome, irritating, lengthy, long winded, monotonous, mundane, obtrusive, officious, pain in the neck, painful, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, plaguesome, plaguy, ponderous, prolix, provoking, tedious, tiresome, tiring, vexatious, weariful, wearisome, weary). (various references) | |
Chinese | 不耐烦 (Bored, impatient). (various references) | |
Czech | nudný (dreary, dull, humdrum, jejune, prosy, slow, stuffy, tedious, tiresome). (various references) | |
Danish | boring (bore, conduit, drilled well, probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding, test boring), boreprofil (probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding, test boring), borehuller (drilling), udboring (counterboring, internal turning), sondering (exploring drilling, probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding, test boring), gennemsænkning. (various references) | |
Dutch | vervelend (bleak, bothersome, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty, stodgy, tiresome, weary). (various references) | |
Esperanto | teda (stodgy, tiresome), enuiga (stodgy), enua (weary). (various references) | |
Finnish | väljentäminen, puikotus (probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding, test boring), poraus (bore), porareikä (drilling), poraaminen (internal turning), pitkästyttävä, koekairaus (probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding, test boring), kairausreikä (drilling, structural test hole, structure hole, well), ikävystyttävä (dull, tiresome), avartaminen (counterboring, flaring). (various references) | |
French | ennuyeux (bothersome), forage (bore, bore hole, borehole). (various references) | |
German | langweilig (dead, dreary, dry, insipidly, lackluster, lacklustre, lifeless, pedestrian, prosy, slow, stuffily, stuffy, tedious, tediously, unamusing), bohrung (bore, borehole, drill-hole, drilling, sinking), bohrloch (bore, borehole, drill-hole, well), bohren (bore, drill, drive, gnaw, keep on, pick, sink). (various references) | |
Greek | γεωτρήματα (drilling), βυθομέτρηση (sounding), βαρετός (dull), ερευνητική γεώτρηση (bore, bore hole, drill hole, hole, new-pool wildcat, well), ανιχνευτική γεώτρηση (probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding, test boring), ανιαρόσ (borer, drab, dull, irksome, prosaic, prosaical, prosy, stodgy, tedious, uninteresting, wearisome, weary), τόρνευση διάνοιξης (internal turning), οπαί γεωτρήσεων (drilling), ολική διάτρηση διεύρυνσης οπών, διάτρηση διεύρυνσης (counterboring). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משעמם (drab, dry, dull, humdrum, logy, monotonous, mundane, tedious, tiresome, uneventful), קדיחה (drilling). (various references) | |
Hungarian | talajfúrás (drill-hole). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bosan (be bored, blase, tired of), penggurdian (drilling), membosankan (arid, bore, drab, monotonous, tedious). (various references) | |
Italian | bucatura (holing, puncturing), barenatura, uggioso, trivellazione (bore, bore hole, drill hole, hole, well), trapanazione (drilling), tedioso (irksome, tedious, wearisome), sondaggio (poll, probing, sounding, survey), seccante (annoying, bothersome, irksome, pesky, tiresome), scandaglio (fathoming, plumb line, sounding), perforazione di sondaggio (bore, bore hole, drill hole, hole, well), perforazione (drilling, perforation), noioso (annoying, dull, humdrum, onerous, pesky, prosy, slow, stodgy, tame, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, workaday, worrisome), alesatura. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 辛気臭い (fretful, irritating), 詰らない (insignificant, trifling), 鑽孔 (punching), ボーデの法則 (ball, ball bearing, ball-point pen, baudon, bawling, board, board-level, boardsailing, boat neck, boat people, Bode's law, bold, bonus, Borden, Boulder, bowl, bowling, count of balls and strikes, rowing boat, vaudeville, vaudevillian), うわの空 (absent-mindedness, being fed up with, dirty, er...., inattention, let me see, nasty, rat-tailed anchovy, ray, stringray, tedious, uh huh, vulgar, well, yeah, yes), 中刳り . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ボーリング (bawling, bowling), なかぐり, しんきくさい (fretful, irritating), さんこう (consultation, dead of night, midnight, midnight to 2 a.m., proceeding to, punching, reference, scattered light, the small hours, the third of five night watches, third proof), うんざり (being fed up with, tedious), つまらない (insignificant, trifling). (various references) | |
Korean | 도려냄. (various references) | |
Manx | towley (bore, broach, drilling, hole, transfix, undermine), towl (aperture, bore, bore of gun, bung hole, burrow, cavity, crater, den, den of fox, earth, eyehole, hole, hollow, leak, penetration, perforation, port, pothole, shaft, vent, vent-hole, water supply), dree (drab, dreary, dull, humdrum, painful, tedious). (various references) | |
Norwegian | kjedelig (drag, dreary, dull, humdrum, stodgy, tiresome). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oringbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | perfuração (bore, caliber, calibre, cutting, drilling, perforation, puncture, rapierthrust), enfadonho (arid, barren, bothersome, difficult, disagreeable, drab, dull, fastidious, humdrum, insipid, lengthy, monotone, monotonous, muzzy, pesky, preachy, prolix, prosy, repetitious, soporific, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, untoward, vapid, vexing, wearisome, weary), aborrecido (annoyed, beastly, bothersome, damnable, disgusted, drab, dreary, dull, dullish, grouchy, horrid, irksome, jaded, meddler, morose, mumpish, outworn, pernickety, pesky, prose, provoking, soporific, stodgy, sulky, tedious, tired, tiresome, tiring, troublesome, unpleasant, vexed, vexing, wearisome, weary, worn-out, worried, worrisome). (various references) | |
Romanian | sondaj (borehole, sound, sounding), sfredelitor, sfredelire, plictisitor (boringly, dead, dreadful, dry, dull, dully, flat, heavy, irksome, jejune, languorous, long winded, long-spun, monotonous, monotonously, pedestrian, pesky, pestersome, pestiferous, repetitious, repetitive, sententious, slow, tedious, tediously, tiresome, trying, weary), plicticos (bothersome, dryasdust, dull, humdrum, lifeless, musty, ponderous, stodgy, tedious, toilsome, vapid, wearisome), foraj (bore, drilling). (various references) | |
Russian | скучный (drab, dry, dull, dull beggar, flat, heartbreaking, inanimate, insipid, irksome, jejune, languid, long, long winded, longspun, monotone, ponderous, prolix, tedious, trying, uninspiring, uninteresting, weariful, yawnful), сверлящий (gnawing), сверление, расточка, надоедливый (annoying, bothersome, irksome, meddlesome, molestful, pain in the neck, pesky, pestiferous, plaguesome, tiresome), буровой, бурение. (various references) | |
Scottish | dethein (a heated boring iron: *déthéine). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bušotina (bore, drill-hole), bušenje (drilling), dosadno (annoyingly, tiresome), dosadan (acerbate, annoying, bothersome, drear, dreary, grinding, humdrum, incommodious, long-spun, pain in the neck, pesky, poky, repetitious, slow, stodgy, stuffy, teasing, tedious, tiresome, undiverted, vexatious). (various references) | |
Spanish | aburrido (bored, dry, dull, humdrum, prosy, slow, stodgy, tame, tired, tiresome, wearisome, weary), perforación (drilling, perforation, piercing, puncture). (various references) | |
Swedish | tråkig (disagreable, drab, dull, dusty, humdrum, irksome, jejune, pedestrian, prosy, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, unpleasant, vapid). (various references) | |
Thai | น่าเบื่อ (arid, banal, dull, humdrum, jejune, tasteless, tired), การเจาะ, การขุดน้ำมัน. (various references) | |
Turkish | sıkıcı (arid, bald, burdensome, constringent, cut and dried, damnable, dead alive, disconcerting, ditch water, ditchwater, drab, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, gaunt, gloomy, grave, grotty, humdrum, inanimate, insipid, irksome, oppressive, poky, ponderous, prose, prosy, slow, sluggish, soul-destroying, soulless, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, trying, uncongenial, unexeciting, unpleasant, unreadable, unsensational, vapid, waste, watery, wearisome), delme (drilling, fenestration, penetration, perforation, piercing, puncture), can sıkıcı (aggravating, annoying, bothersome, chippy, disagreeable, displeasing, embarrassing, painful, provoking, soul-destroying, soulless, sullen, tedious, unexeciting, vexatious, worrisome, worrying). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gyzyksiz. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | свердлячий, свердління (drilling), отвір (air gap, aperture, bore, breach, break, canal, clearance, embrasure, gape, hole, mesh, mouth, open, opening, orifice, ostiole, perforation, port, ventage, window), надокучливий (busy, interfering, intrusive, officious, shrill, tiresome, wearisome), буріння (piercing), бурові роботи. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự khoan (perforation). (various references) | |
Welsh | diflas (insipid). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | insulsum, odiosa, odiosae, odiosam, odiosum, odiosus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "boring": boringly, boringness, boringnesses, borings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "boring": belaboring, harboring, laboring, mislaboring, neighboring, overlaboring, reboring, taboring. (additional references) | |
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"Boring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: berang, Berengo, berign, bering, Beringia, Bieringa, bireing, Bjoerling, Bjorling, Blorenge, bloring, boaring, boeing, boer-ing, Boeringer, boign, boiing, boing, booring, boran, borange, bording, boreing, bori, borine, borning, borongaj, Borrani, borring, Borrins, borting, boying, Broin, broing, broming, brrring, buring, Buringh. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "boring" (pronounced bô"ring) |
| 4 | -ô" r i ng | adoring, deploring, exploring, flooring, Goring, ignoring, imploring, outpouring, poring, pouring, restoring, roaring, scoring, shoring, snoring, soaring, storing, underscoring, warring. |
| 3 | -r i ng | appearing, acquiring, adhering, admiring, airing, alluring, aspiring, assuring, baring, barring, bearing, bioengineering, blaring, caring, chairing, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, comparing, conspiring, curing, daring, declaring, despairing, disappearing, domineering, during, earring, electioneering, endearing, enduring, engineering, ensuring, expiring, fearing, firing, flaring, gearing, glaring, haring, hearing, herring, hiring, impairing, inspiring, insuring, interfering, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, nearing, obscuring, overbearing, overhearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, perspiring, pioneering, premiering, preparing, procuring, profiteering, quiring, racketeering, rearing, reassuring, reengineering, rehearing, rehiring, repairing, retiring, scaring, scarring, searing, securing, sharing, shearing, smearing, snaring, sneering, sparing, sparring, Spearing, squaring, staring, starring, steering, stevedoring, swearing, tarring, tearing, tiring, touring, uncaring, uninspiring, unsparing, veering, volunteering, Waring, wearing, wiring. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: orbing, robing. | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-i-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: bingo, boing, bring, giron, groin, robin. | |
-2 letters: bong, born, brig, brin, brio, girn, giro, grin, inro, iron, noir, nori, ring. | |
-3 letters: big, bin, bio, bog, bro, gib, gin, gob, gor, ion, nib, nob, nog, nor, obi, orb, rib, rig, rin, rob. | |
-4 letters: bi, bo, go, in, no, on, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-i-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: bighorn, borings, broking, probing, robbing, sorbing. | |
+2 letters: aborning, aborting, bigaroon, bighorns, birdsong, boarding, borating, boringly, bowering, bravoing, broiling, brokings, bronzing, brooding, brooking, brooming, browning, browsing, enrobing, highborn, laboring, neighbor, orbiting, reboring, ringbolt, ringbone, sobering, songbird, taboring, unrobing. | |
+3 letters: abhorring, aborigine, absorbing, adsorbing, beworming, bigaroons, bioregion, birdsongs, boardings, bordering, borrowing, bothering, bowstring, bringdown, broaching, brocading, brokering, bromating, bromizing, bronzings, burrowing, corbeling, desorbing, disrobing, forboding, harboring, ignorable, labouring, neighbors, neighbour, obscuring, observing, obtruding, obverting, probating, rebodying, reboiling, rebooking, rebooting, recombing, reprobing, resorbing, ribboning, ringbolts, ringbones, signboard, songbirds, springbok, suborning, subregion, tabouring, throbbing, troubling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Frequency 15. Names: Company Usage 16. Cities | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Bibliography |
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