Tra từ bore - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bore...malice (=did not feel any malice towards her)
▪ James bore her no malice .
bore...the stamp of (=had)
▪ The speech borethe stamp of authority.
full bore
▪ Kate took a huge slice and was going at it full bore.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
down
▪ The Wolf of Kabul bore down upon him.
▪ His eyes bore down on me out of a somewhat hawklike face, and I immediately became flustered.
▪ An icy wind howled and a great wall of snow bore down upon them.
▪ Her great white face bore down on mine.
▪ She bore down on the hybrids and, with her claws, she killed them almost before they realized.
▪ He bore down again, pressed himself against my back.
▪ Five or six men, horsed, masked and well-armed, burst from a clump of trees and bore down on them.
▪ How Linda fell on to the track and he tried to pick her up just as the train bore down on them.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bore sb silly
bore/scare etc the pants off sb
▪ He wasn't interested in the heavy political stuff which bored the pants off most people.
▪ It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage, with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary.
▪ Lovely people who scared the pants off him.
▪ The tests scare the pants off many managers.
▪ Though, mind you, it scares the pants off poor old Crumwallis.
bored/scared/worried stiff
▪ And I was scared stiff about having lied to Mel about being single when he hired me.
▪ Cis, who knew about it, was scared stiff.
▪ He was scared stiff, thought a ghastly mistake had been made.
▪ He was very naturally scared stiff of using up all his remaining petrol and making a bad landing.
▪ Mabel was by now scared stiff and frozen cold.
▪ Poor kid, thought Alice, he's scared stiff.
▪ We looked at each other, scared stiff, but we followed Mrs Bullivant upstairs.
crashing bore
▪ At worst, a crashing bore.
deadly serious/dull/boring etc
▪ And at a time which - surely it was obvious - was deadly serious.
▪ He's a deadly dull little man as far as I can see.
▪ He was deadly serious and I knew it.
▪ His companion chuckled at the jest, but Gravelet, whose stage name was Blondin, was deadly serious.
▪ It was now clear, however, that the position was becoming deadly serious.
▪ Suppose, for example, you regularly attend a weekly meeting which tends to be deadly dull.
▪ The noise level was high in both languages; all faces were deadly serious.
▪ The primary indicator is Attempts to be deadly serious invariably result in unintended comedy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Am I boring you?
▪ Being alone with a baby all day bored her to tears.
▪ He bores everyone with his stories about his girlfriends.
▪ Poetry bores me.
▪ The machine they used to bore the tunnel is the size of a two storey house.
▪ The mining company bored a 5000 foot hole.
▪ They had to bore through solid rock.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And it is not true that a girl decides in junior high that math is, like, so boring.
▪ I will tell you frankly the word Marxism is very boring to me.
▪ It bore out the warnings received from MI6.
▪ Not just resistant to the pitter patter of bored kiddie feet but immune to assaults from the outside as well.
▪ There would be nothing more boring than the landslide that everyone predicted.
▪ Those with earnings just above the tax threshold bore the heaviest burden of the flat rate tax as a proportion of income.
▪ Twin towers bore the arms of the railway companies emblazoned upon them.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bore sb silly
bore/scare etc the pants off sb
▪ He wasn't interested in the heavy political stuff which bored the pants off most people.
▪ It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage, with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary.
▪ Lovely people who scared the pants off him.
▪ The tests scare the pants off many managers.
▪ Though, mind you, it scares the pants off poor old Crumwallis.
bored/scared/worried stiff
▪ And I was scared stiff about having lied to Mel about being single when he hired me.
▪ Cis, who knew about it, was scared stiff.
▪ He was scared stiff, thought a ghastly mistake had been made.
▪ He was very naturally scared stiff of using up all his remaining petrol and making a bad landing.
▪ Mabel was by now scared stiff and frozen cold.
▪ Poor kid, thought Alice, he's scared stiff.
▪ We looked at each other, scared stiff, but we followed Mrs Bullivant upstairs.
deadly serious/dull/boring etc
▪ And at a time which - surely it was obvious - was deadly serious.
▪ He's a deadly dull little man as far as I can see.
▪ He was deadly serious and I knew it.
▪ His companion chuckled at the jest, but Gravelet, whose stage name was Blondin, was deadly serious.
▪ It was now clear, however, that the position was becoming deadly serious.
▪ Suppose, for example, you regularly attend a weekly meeting which tends to be deadly dull.
▪ The noise level was high in both languages; all faces were deadly serious.
▪ The primary indicator is Attempts to be deadly serious invariably result in unintended comedy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And it is not true that a girl decides in junior high that math is, like, so boring.
▪ Not just resistant to the pitter patter of bored kiddie feet but immune to assaults from the outside as well.
▪ There would be nothing more boring than the landslide that everyone predicted.
▪ Those with earnings just above the tax threshold bore the heaviest burden of the flat rate tax as a proportion of income.
▪ Twin towers bore the arms of the railway companies emblazoned upon them.
III. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
big
▪ But she can also be the biggest bore when she piles on endless details about her childhood stomping grounds.
▪ Power will be provided by a big-bore V-twin.
▪ Whereupon the media, denied the excitements that they had trumpeted, declared the whole event a big, irrelevant bore.
wide
▪ This process can be hastened by gentle pipetting of the egg masses through a wide bore glass mouth pipette.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a 12-bore shotgun
▪ At parties she always gets stuck with some bore who wants to tell her the story of his life.
▪ Washing the dishes is a bore.
▪ Winston is such a bore!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gluck was armed with an incredibly heavy musket, a single-shot museum piece with an octagonal barrel and a smooth bore.
▪ It was in the direction of Temple Bar Creek and the Mereenie water bores.
▪ Solitons are solitary waves; the Severn bore is a good example.
▪ Whereupon the media, denied the excitements that they had trumpeted, declared the whole event a big, irrelevant bore.

bore

I. bore¹ /bɔː $ bɔːr/
the past tense of bear

II. bore² verb
1. [TRANSITIVE]
to make someone feel bored, especially by talking too much about something they are not interested in:
　 ▪ He’s the sort of person who bores you at parties.
　 ▪ a film that will bore its young audience
bore somebody with something
　 ▪ I won’t bore you with all the technical details.
bore somebody to death/tears (=make them very bored)

2. [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE]
to make a deep round hole in a hard surface
bore something through/into/in something
　 ▪ The machine bores a hole through the cards.
bore through/into
　 ▪ To build the tunnel they had to bore through solid rock.

3. [INTRANSITIVE + INTO]
if someone’s eyes bore into you, they look at you in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable
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THESAURUS
▪dig to make a hole in the ground using your hands, a tool, or a machine :
　 ▪ Some workmen were digging a trench at the side of the road.
　 ▪ In Africa, the people know where to dig for water.
▪make a hole to dig a hole in the ground, using your hands or a tool :
　 ▪ Make a hole just big enough for the plant’s roots.
▪burrow /ˈbʌrəʊ $ ˈbɜːroʊ/ if an animal burrows, it makes a hole or a passage in the ground by digging the earth with its feet, nose etc :
　 ▪ The rabbits had burrowed a hole under the fence.
▪plough British English, plow American English /plaʊ/ to turn over the soil using a machine or a tool pulled by animals, to prepare the soil for planting seeds :
　 ▪ The farmers here still plough their fields using buffaloes.
▪excavate /ˈekskəveɪt/ formal to dig a large hole in the ground, especially as a preparation for building something :
　 ▪ The men began excavating the hole for the pool.
▪bore to make a deep round hole in the ground using a special machine, especially in order to look for oil or water :
　 ▪ Companies need a special licence to bore for oil.

III. bore³ noun
[Word Family: noun: bore, boredom; adjective: bored, boring; verb: bore; adverb: boringly]
1. [SINGULAR]
something that is not interesting to you or that annoys you:
　 ▪ Waiting is a bore.
　 ▪ You’ll find it’s a terrible bore.

2. [COUNTABLE]
someone who is boring, especially because they talk too much about themselves or about things that do not interest you:
　 ▪ He turned out to be a crashing bore (=used to emphasize that someone is very boring).

3. [SINGULAR]
the measurement of the width of the inside of a long hollow object such as a pipe or the barrel of a gun:
　 ▪ Take a length of piping with a bore of about 15 mm.
12-/16-/20- etc bore
　 ▪ a 12-bore shotgun
wide-/narrow-/fine- bore
　 ▪ a fine-bore tube

4. [SINGULAR]
a wave of water that moves quickly along a river from the sea at particular times of the year:
　 ▪ the Severn bore

5. [COUNTABLE]
a borehole
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THESAURUS
to make a hole in something
▪make a hole in something to cause a hole to appear in something :
　 ▪ Make a hole in the bottom of the can using a hammer and nail.
▪pierce to make a small hole in or through something, using a pointed object :
　 ▪ The dog's teeth had pierced her skin.
　 ▪ Shelley wanted to have her ears pierced (=for earrings).
▪prick to make a very small hole in the surface of something, using a pointed object :
　 ▪ Prick the potatoes before baking them.
　 ▪ My finger was bleeding where the needle had pricked it.
▪punch to make a hole through paper or flat material using a metal tool or other sharp object :
　 ▪ I bought one of those things for punching holes in paper.
　 ▪ You have to get your ticket punched before you get on the train.
▪puncture to make a small hole in something, especially something where skin or a wall surrounds a softer or hollow inside part :
　 ▪ The bullet had punctured his lung.
▪perforate formal to make a hole or holes in something :
　 ▪ Fragments of the bullet had perforated his intestines.
▪drill to make a hole using a special tool, often one which turns round and round very quickly :
　 ▪ The dentist started drilling a hole in my tooth.
　 ▪ They won a contract to drill for oil in the area.
▪bore to make a deep round hole through a rock, into the ground etc :
　 ▪ They had to bore through solid rock.
　 ▪ The men were boring a hole for the tunnel.