bore

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɔː(ɹ)/
• SAMPA: /bO:(r)/

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Homophones

• boar
• Boer
• boor

Verb

Plain form (yanzu) bore

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) bores

Past tense (ya wuce) bored

Past participle (ya wuce) bored

Present participle (ana cikin yi) boring

A machine boring a tunnel

1. (transitive) If you bore somebody, you make them feel that they want to do something else because it is not interesting. <> rashin bada nishadantarwa.

   I hate tennis; it bores me.

2. (transitive & intransitive) If you bore a hole, you make a round hole by turning something round and round. <> huda.

   You need to bore a hole in the wood to put the wire through.

3. past tense of bear <> wato dauriya da hakuri.
4. gajiyadda mutum kan yi wa wani da magana <> a person whose talk or behavior is dull and uninteresting.

Verb 2

Infinitive bear

Third person singular bears

Simple past bore

Past participle born or borne

Present participle bearing

1. The past tense of bear. <> haifa, haifi

   She bore 6 children <> Ta haifi 'ya'ya shida.

Noun

Singular bore

Plural bores

Bore of a Krupp 38 cm gun at Batterie Vara / Møvik Fort, Norway.

1. A sudden and rapid flow of tide in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave; an eagre. [1]
2. A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.

   the bore of a cannon

   • Francis Bacon

     the bores of wind instruments

3. The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
4. A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
5. A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
6. One who inspires boredom or lack of interest.
7. Something that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome affair.
   • Hawthorne

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

8. Calibre; importance.
   • Shakespeare

     Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.

Hausa

Pronounced "bo-ree"

1. rebel, rebellion, sedition, strike <> zanga-zanga
   1. 'Yan tasin Uber sun yi bore a Kenya [2] <> Kenya Uber drivers on strike
   2. The Arab Spring <> Boren Larabawa --parallel_text/Operation_Al_Aqsa_Flood

Google translation of bore

Haifa, huda.

1. (verb) huda <> pierce, bore;