different between bore vs pestilence
bore
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)
- (transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
- 1881, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences
- […] used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
- 1881, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences
- (transitive) To make a hole through something.
- (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.
- (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
- 1862, Thaddeus William Harris, A Treatise on Some of the Insects Injurious to Vegetation
- (transitive) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
- (intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
- (intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- They take their flight […] boring to the west.
- (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?)
- (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)
- A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
- The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
- A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
- A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
- One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
- 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.
- 1871, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks
- 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)
- 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
- simple past tense of bear
- (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
- morning
Mutation
Czech
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bor?/
- Rhymes: -or?
- Hyphenation: bo?re
Noun
bore
- vocative singular of bor ("pine wood"):
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bo?r?/
- Rhymes: -o?r?
- Hyphenation: bo?re
Noun
bore
- vocative singular of bor ("boron"):
Anagrams
- oreb, robe
References
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
bore
- (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)
- 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)
- A bore, hole, puncture or indentation.
- A gap, cavity or piercing.
- (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
- Alternative form of boryn
Etymology 3
Noun
bore
- 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)
- to bore or drill (make a hole through something)
Derived terms
- borerigg
References
- “bore” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
bore
- 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)
- morning
Derived terms
- bore da (“good morning”)
- bore coffi (“coffee morning”)
Related terms
- yfory
Mutation
bore From the web:
- what bores holes in wood
- what bore means
- what boredom means
- what bores holes in trees
- what bore snake for 556
- what bores holes in pine trees
- what bore is a 383 stroker
- what bores holes in the ground
pestilence
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pestilentia (“plague”), from pestilens (“infected, unwholesome, noxious”); see pestilent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?st?l?n(t)s/, /?p?st?l?n(t)s/, /?p?stl?n(t)s/
Noun
pestilence (countable and uncountable, plural pestilences)
- Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 2, chapter 2
- "Take it, Christian dogs? take the palaces, the gardens, the mosques, the abode of our fathers - take plague with them; pestilence is the enemy we fly; if she be your friend, hug her to your bosoms. The curse of Allah is on Stamboul, share ye her fate?"
- 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
- The snowshoe-rabbits build up through the years until they reach a climax when they seem to be everywhere; then with dramatic suddenness their pestilence falls upon them.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 2, chapter 2
- (archaic) Anything harmful to morals or public order.
Related terms
- pest
- pesticide
- pestilent
Translations
Further reading
- pestilence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- pestilence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
From Old French pestilence, borrowed from Latin pestilentia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?s.ti.l??s/
Noun
pestilence f (plural pestilences)
- (archaic or literary) pest epidemic; pestilence
- extremely foul smell
- Synonyms: infection, puanteur
Derived terms
- pestilentiel
References
- “pestilence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Noun
pestilence f (oblique plural pestilences, nominative singular pestilence, nominative plural pestilences)
- pestilence (epidemic disease)
pestilence From the web:
- what pestilence mean
- what's pestilence in the bible
- what's pestilence in spanish
- pestilence what does it mean
- what does pestilence mean in the bible
- what does pestilence mean in psalms 91
- what do pestilence mean
- what causes pestilence
you may also like
- bore vs pestilence
- contemplate vs conjecture
- slit vs mince
- hook vs wind
- fling vs adventure
- forerunner vs original
- discharge vs plenty
- representation vs daguerreotype
- trustworthy vs steady
- appoint vs prescribe
- promoter vs propagandist
- goad vs elbow
- dauntless vs lionhearted
- title vs boon
- stormy vs conspicuous
- commendatory vs praising
- sickly vs disabled
- pain vs chafe
- repugnant vs unseemly
- breach vs separation