bore

«bore» in Mova's school dictionary: To make someone feel tired and uninterested because… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (bore, bores, bored, boring); noun (a bore, bores); verb form (bore — past of bear)

meaning for a pupil

1) To make someone feel tired and uninterested because something is dull. tree →

2) A person or thing that is dull and tiresome, as in «He's such a bore». tree →

3) (informal, UK) A nuisance, as in «What a bore, the bus is late». tree →

4) To make a deep round hole with a drill. tree →

5) The width of the inside of a pipe or gun barrel, or a hole drilled for water (a borehole). tree →

6) The past tense of «bear», as in «she bore the pain» or «the tree bore fruit». tree →

7) A tidal bore: a big wave that rushes up some rivers, like the Severn Bore. tree →

8) To bore a child is to give birth to it. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life «bored» and «boring» are very common: «I'm bored» means I have nothing interesting to do. In design and technology, to bore means to drill a hole. In geography, the Severn Bore in England is a famous tidal wave up a river. In stories, «bore» as the past of «bear» appears in phrases like «bore a child» or «bore the weight».

examples

• Long speeches bore me. tree →
• Uncle Bill can be a bit of a bore at parties. tree →
• Workers bored a hole through the rock. tree →
• Surfers ride the Severn Bore up the river. tree →
• She bore the pain bravely. tree →
• The apple tree bore lots of fruit this year. tree →
• The farmers drink water from a deep bore. (Australia) tree →
• What a bore, we have to wait another hour! tree →
• ‘Little Bright-eyes, little Redskin, Come nurse the child you bore! tree →

note

Trap 1: «I am bored» (how you feel) vs «It is boring» (what makes you feel that way). Trap 2: homophone «boar» (a wild pig) sounds the same as «bore». Trap 3: «bore» can be the past of «bear»: bear, bore, born/borne. Nouns: boredom, borehole.

In the corpora

• Usually the facts are small and boring: a car, a van, an ambulance, a police car for twenty minutes.
• A boy in Ohio was bored at home and climbed onto the garage roof for fun; he slipped off and broke his arm.
• Bored on a dark evening and egged on by older boys, he threw a firecracker at old Mrs Reid's door.
• Three weeks later, bored on a wet afternoon, Ruby did it again with Mum's tablet.
• I'm not playing.» With no race to win, Kieran gets bored of it within a week.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bore» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.