# boring

Pronunciation: US say "BOR-ing" /ˈboɹ.ɪŋ/; UK say "BAW-ring" /ˈbɔː.ɹɪŋ/

## Adjective

1. Uninteresting in a way that leaves you tired and wanting it to end.
   - Simple: Not interesting, so it makes you feel tired and ready to stop listening.
   - _The lecture was boring, and half the audience was checking their phones._
   - _She dreaded another boring committee meeting full of budget spreadsheets._
5. Used for, designed to be used for, or capable of drilling holes.
   - Simple: Made for drilling holes, or able to drill them.
   - _A massive boring machine carved the subway tunnel beneath the harbor._
   - _The shop keeps a rack of boring bars in graduated sizes._
6. Feeling bored, restless, and mildly annoyed through having nothing to do. *(Manglish)*
   - Simple: Feeling bored and restless because there is nothing to do.
   - _My phone died at the bus stop, so I was so boring, just sitting there watching cars._
   - _Boss on leave, no work coming in, the whole office boring lah._
8. Penetrating or piercing, as if able to pass through whatever it meets.
   - Simple: Seeming to cut or go right through something, like a very sharp look.
   - _The old sergeant studied each recruit with keen, boring eyes that missed nothing._
   - _A boring north wind cut through every layer he wore._

## Verb

2. Present participle and gerund of bore. — present participle and gerund of bore
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of bore. Use this form when the action is happening now or continuing.
   - _Engineers were boring through bedrock to lay the new water line._
   - _He kept boring the guests with stories about his stamp collection._

## Noun

3. The process of making holes with a rotating tool, and also this work as a specialized skill in manufacturing.
   - Simple: The work of drilling holes, especially as a special skill in making machine parts.
   - _Precision boring accounts for most of the shop's machining work._
   - _After the castings cool, they move to a separate station for boring._
4. A pit or hole that has been bored.
   - Simple: A hole that has been made by drilling.
   - _The survey crew sank a boring at each corner of the building site._
   - _Old mine borings dot the hillside above the town._
7. A fragment of material thrown off by a drill or boring tool as it cuts a hole.
   - Simple: A small piece of material that comes out when someone drills a hole.
   - _Brass borings glittered in the tray beneath the lathe._
   - _A single boring lodged in the gears and jammed the whole mechanism._

## Origin

From Middle English boryng, meaning "making a hole", formed from "bore" plus the ending "-ing".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/boring (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).