Bore (imp.) of Bear |
Bore (v. t.) To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument |
Bore (v. t.) To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus |
Bore (v. t.) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring |
Bore (v. t.) To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness |
Bore (v. t.) To befool |
Bore (v. i.) To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument |
Bore (v. i.) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns |
Bore (v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort. |
Bore (v. i.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air |
Bore (n.) A hole made by boring |
Bore (n.) The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. |
Bore (n.) The size of a hole |
Bore (n.) A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger. |
Bore (n.) Caliber |
Bore (n.) A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness |
Bore (n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China. |
Bore (n.) Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel. |
Bore () imp. of 1st & 2d Bear. |
Cylinder (n.) A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides |
Cylinder (n.) The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length. |
Cylinder (n.) Any hollow body of cylindrical form |
Cylinder (n.) The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam. |
Cylinder (n.) The barrel of an air or other pump. |
Cylinder (n.) The revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press. |
Cylinder (n.) The bore of a gun |
Cylinder (n.) The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom. |
Diameter (n.) Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries |
Diameter (n.) A diametral plane. |
Diameter (n.) The length of a straight line through the center of an object from side to side |
Diameter (n.) The distance through the lower part of the shaft of a column, used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. See Module. |