Bore vs Pall - What's the difference?
bore | pall |
(senseid)To inspire boredom in somebody.
* Shakespeare
* Carlyle
(senseid)To make a hole through something.
* Shakespeare
To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
* T. W. Harris
To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
* John Gay
To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
* Dryden
(of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.
(obsolete) To fool; to trick.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
A hole drilled or milled through something.
* Francis Bacon
The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired.
A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
One who inspires boredom or lack of interest.
Something that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome affair.
* Hawthorne
Calibre; importance.
* Shakespeare
A sudden and rapid flow of tide in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave; an eagre.
(bear)
(archaic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
(Christianity) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.
(Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice.
(Christianity) A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).
* Fuller
(heraldiccharge) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.
* 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , Canongate (2006), page 150:
An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) nausea
(senseid) A feeling of gloom.
To cloak.
To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
* Atterbury
To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.
* Addison
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
As a noun bore
is farmer.As a proper noun pall is
, cognate to paul.bore
English
(wikipedia bore)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; confer German drillen.Verb
(bor)- He bores me with some trick.
- used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
- I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored .
- to bore for water or oil
- An insect bores into a tree.
- to bore''' a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to '''bore a hole
- short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood
- to bore one's way through a crowd
- What bustling crowds I bored .
- This timber does not bore well.
- They take their flight boring to the west.
- (Crabb)
- I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, / Baffled and bored , it seems.
Antonyms
* interestSynonyms
* SeeNoun
(en noun)- the bore of a cannon
- the bores of wind instruments
- It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.
- Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
Compare Icelandic word for "wave".Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
Verb
(head)pall
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, — the one for London, the other for York.
- Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime,
- His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.
- (Shaftesbury)
- A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored.
- The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.
Derived terms
* cast a pall * pallbearer * tarpaulinSynonyms
* (heraldry) pairleVerb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
from appall. Possibly influenced by the figurative meaning of the unrelated noun.Verb
(en verb)- Reason and reflection pall all his enjoyments.
- The liquor palls .
- Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, / Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.
- We are all becoming accustomed to adventure. It is beginning to pall on us. We suffered no casualties and there was no illness.