different between boring vs bloodless

English

Etymology

From Middle English boryng (“making a hole”); equivalent to bore +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?????/
• Rhymes: -?????

Noun

boring (plural borings)

1. A pit or hole which has been bored.
   • 1992, J. Patrick Powers, Construction dewatering: new methods and applications, p. 191:

     It is common in urban areas that a great many borings exist from prior construction work.

2. Fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
3. Any organism that bores into a hard surface

Verb

boring

1. present participle of bore

Derived terms

• tunnel boring machine

Adjective

boring (comparative more boring, superlative most boring)

1. Causing boredom or tiredness; making you to feel tired and impatient.

   What a boring film that was! I almost fell asleep.

2. Used, or designed to be used, to drill holes.

   boring equipment

3. Capable of penetrating; piercing.

Synonyms

• dull, mind-numbing (colloquial), tedious
• See also Thesaurus:boring

Derived terms

• boringly
• boringness

Related terms

• bore
• bored
• boredom

Translations

Anagrams

• orbing, robing

Danish

Etymology

From the verb bore (“drill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?o???e?]

Noun

boring c (singular definite boringen, plural indefinite boringer)

1. drill hole
2. drilling

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

From boren +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bo?.r??/
• (Belgium)
• Hyphenation: bo?ring
• Rhymes: -o?r??

Noun

boring f (plural boringen, diminutive borinkje n)

1. drilling

   offshoreboring — offshore drilling

2. bore of a car's cylinder or canon

English

Alternative forms

• bloudless (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English blodles, from Old English bl?dl?as (“bloodless”), equivalent to blood +? -less. Cognate with Dutch bloedeloos (“bloodless”), German blutlos (“bloodless”), Danish blodløs (“bloodless”), Swedish blodlös (“bloodless”), Icelandic blóðlaus (“bloodless”).

Adjective

bloodless (comparative more bloodless, superlative most bloodless)

1. Lacking blood; ashen, anaemic.
   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act III, Scene 1,^[1]

     Thou dost not slumber: see, thy two sons’ heads,

     Thy warlike hand, thy mangled daughter here:

     Thy other banish’d son, with this dear sight

     Struck pale and bloodless; and thy brother, I,

     Even like a stony image, cold and numb.

   • 1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Penguin, 2001, Part One, Chapter 2,

     The face was white and thoroughly bloodless with some kind of foundation cream; it stank of powder and a gardenia-like perfume.

2. Taking place without loss of blood.

   a bloodless conquest; a bloodless coup d'état; a bloodless revolution; a bloodless victory

3. Lacking emotion, passion or vivacity.
   • 1937, “No. 1 Rumanian,” Time, 8 February, 1937,^[2]

     Those Philharmonic subscribers who considered Guest Conductor Igor Stravinsky too bloodless and ascetic […] last week found his successor, Georges Enesco, more to their taste.

Derived terms

• bloodlessly
• bloodlessness

Translations