different between bore vs burden

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /bo(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /bo?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: boar, Bohr, boor (accents with the pour–poor merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English boren, from Old English borian (“to pierce”), from Proto-Germanic *bur?n?. Compare Danish bore, Norwegian Bokmål bore, Dutch boren, German bohren, Old Norse bora. Cognate with Latin for? (“to bore, to pierce”), Latin feri? (“strike, cut”) and Albanian birë (“hole”). Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; compare German drillen.

Verb

bore (third-person singular simple present bores, present participle boring, simple past and past participle bored)

2. (transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
   • 1881, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences

     […] used to come and bore me at rare intervals.

4. (transitive) To make a hole through something.
5. (intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.

6. (transitive) To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
   • 1862, Thaddeus William Harris, A Treatise on Some of the Insects Injurious to Vegetation

     short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore […] a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood

7. (transitive) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
8. (intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.

9. (intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

   • They take their flight […] boring to the west.

10. (of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Crabb to this entry?)

11. (obsolete) To fool; to trick.

Synonyms

• (make a hole through something): see also Thesaurus:make a hole

Antonyms

• interest

Related terms

• (to make a hole): borer
• (to inspire boredom): bored, boredom, boring

Translations

Noun

bore (plural bores)

1. A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
2. The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
3. A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
4. A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
5. One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.

6. Something dull or uninteresting
   • 1871, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks

     It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.

7. Calibre; importance.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:bore

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English *bore, bare, a borrowing from Old Norse bára (“billow, wave”). Cognate with Icelandic bára, Faroese bára.

Noun

bore (plural bores)

1. A sudden and rapid flow of tide occuring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.

Synonyms

• eagre

Translations

Etymology 3

Verb

bore

1. simple past tense of bear
2. (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of bear

Anagrams

• Bero, Boer, Ebor, Ebro, robe

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *b?regos (“morning”). Compare Breton beure, Old Irish báireach and Old Irish bárach, whence i mbáireach and i mbárach (“tomorrow”), modern Irish amáireach (Munster, Connaught) and Irish amárach (Donegal).

Noun

bore m

1. morning

Mutation

Czech

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bor?/
• Rhymes: -or?
• Hyphenation: bo?re

Noun

bore

1. vocative singular of bor ("pine wood"):

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo?r?/
• Rhymes: -o?r?
• Hyphenation: bo?re

Noun

bore

1. vocative singular of bor ("boron"):

Anagrams

• oreb, robe

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

bore

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of boren

Anagrams

• boer, Ebro, robe, ober

French

Etymology

Coined by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis Jacques Thénard in 1808, from the same root but independently of English boron.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??/

Noun

bore m (uncountable)

1. boron

Further reading

• “bore” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• orbe, robe, robé

Middle English

Etymology 1

A back-formation from boren; reinforced by Old Norse bora.

Alternative forms

• boore

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??r(?)/

Noun

bore (plural bores)

1. A bore, hole, puncture or indentation.
2. A gap, cavity or piercing.
3. (rare, euphemistic) The anus; the asshole.

Descendants

• English: bore
• Scots: bore, boir

References

• “b?re, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.

Etymology 2

Verb

bore

1. Alternative form of boryn

Etymology 3

Noun

bore

1. Alternative form of bor

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse bora

Verb

bore (imperative bor, present tense borer, simple past and past participle bora or boret, present participle borende)

1. to bore or drill (make a hole through something)

Derived terms

• borerigg

References

• “bore” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

bore

1. past participle of bera

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *b?regos (“morning”). Compare Breton beure, Old Irish bárach (whence i mbárach (“tomorrow”), modern Irish amáireach and amárach).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /?b?r?/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /?b?ra/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?bo?r?/, /?b?r?/

Noun

bore m (plural boreau)

1. morning

Derived terms

• bore da (“good morning”)
• bore coffi (“coffee morning”)

Related terms

• yfory

Mutation

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English burden, birden, burthen, birthen, byrthen, from Old English byrden, byrþen, from Proto-West Germanic *burþini, from *burþ?, from Proto-Germanic *burþ??, from Proto-Indo-European *b?er- (“to carry, bear”).

Alternative forms

• burthen (archaic)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??dn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?dn/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?n

Noun

burden (plural burdens)

1. A heavy load.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     There were four or five men in the vault already, and I could hear more coming down the passage, and guessed from their heavy footsteps that they were carrying burdens.

2. A responsibility, onus.
3. A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
   • c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift, The Dean's Complaint Translated and Answered

     Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, / To all my friends a burden grown.

4. The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.

   a ship of a hundred tons burden

5. (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
6. (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
7. A fixed quantity of certain commodities.

8. (obsolete, rare) A birth.

   […] that bore thee at a burden two fair sons.

9. (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

burden (third-person singular simple present burdens, present participle burdening, simple past and past participle burdened)

1. (transitive) To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.
2. (transitive) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).

Derived terms

• burden basket
• burdensome
• beast of burden

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French bordon. See bourdon.

Noun

burden (plural burdens)

2. (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2

     Foot it featly here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.

   • 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Philosophy of Composition

     As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only is limited to lyric verse, but depends for its impression upon the force of monotone - both in sound and thought.

3. The drone of a bagpipe.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ruddiman to this entry?)

4. Theme, core idea.

References

Anagrams

• bunder, burned, unbred

Middle English

Etymology 1

From bord +? -en (“adjectival ending”)

Adjective

burden

1. Alternative form of borden

Etymology 2

From burde +? -en (“plural ending”)

Noun

burden

1. plural of burde

West Frisian

Noun

burden

1. plural of burd