boring

Pluralborings (some meanings)

1. 1
   adjective

   Not interesting, so it makes you feel tired and ready to stop listening.

   Like watching paint dry: nothing happens, and time goes very slowly.

   The movie was so boring that we left early.

   He told a boring story about his vacation.

   Similardull, tedious, uninteresting, monotonous, tiresome

   Oppositeinteresting, exciting, fascinating, gripping

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2. 2
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of bore. Use this form when the action is happening now or continuing.

   The workers are boring a hole through the wall.

   Stop boring your sister with those long stories.

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3. 3
   noununcountable

   The work of drilling holes, especially as a special skill in making machine parts.

   Boring is one of the main jobs at the factory.

   He learned boring while working at his uncle's machine shop.

   Similardrilling

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4. 4
   nouncountable

   A hole that has been made by drilling.

   The workers made a deep boring to look for water.

   We dropped a stone into the old boring and counted until it hit the bottom.

   Similarborehole, hole, shaft

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5. 5
   adjective

   Made for drilling holes, or able to drill them.

   The boring machine cut a huge hole through the rock.

   Dad fitted a boring bit onto the drill to make the hole wider.

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6. 6
   adjectiveManglish

   Feeling bored and restless because there is nothing to do.

   School holiday so long, I very boring at home lah.

   Two hours waiting at the clinic, everybody boring already.

   Similarbored

   Oppositeinterested

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7. 7
   nouncountable

   A small piece of material that comes out when someone drills a hole.

   Like the little crumbs that fall when you cut a loaf of bread.

   A metal boring stuck to the magnet on the workbench.

   We swept up the wood borings under the drill.

   Similarchip

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8. 8
   adjective

   Seeming to cut or go right through something, like a very sharp look.

   Her boring stare seemed to drill right through him.

   The boring wind went straight through my thin coat.

   Similarpiercing, penetrating, biting

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