Bore vs Wet - What's the difference?

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Bore is a related term of wet.

As nouns the difference between bore and wet

is that bore is farmer while wet is liquid or moisture.

As an adjective wet is

of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.

As a verb wet is

to cover or impregnate with liquid.

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)

(senseid)To inspire boredom in somebody.

* Shakespeare

He bores me with some trick.

* Carlyle

used to come and bore me at rare intervals.

(senseid)To make a hole through something.

* Shakespeare

I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored .

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 bore for water or oil

An insect bores into a tree.

To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.

to bore''' a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to '''bore a hole

* T. W. Harris

short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood

To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.

to bore one's way through a crowd

* John Gay

What bustling crowds I bored .

To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.

This timber does not bore well.

To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

* Dryden

They take their flight boring to the west.

(of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.

(Crabb)

(obsolete) To fool; to trick.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, / Baffled and bored , it seems.

Antonyms

* interest

Synonyms

* See

Noun

(en noun)

A hole drilled or milled through something.

the bore of a cannon

* Francis Bacon

the bores of wind instruments

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

It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.

Calibre; importance.

* Shakespeare

Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.

Synonyms

* See also

Etymology 2

Compare Icelandic word for "wave".

Noun

(en noun)

A sudden and rapid flow of tide in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave; an eagre.

Etymology 3

Verb

(head)

(bear)

Anagrams

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wet

English

Adjective

(wetter)

Of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.

I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet .

Of weather or a time period, rainy.

It’s going to be wet tomorrow.

* Milton

wet October's torrent flood

Made up of liquid or moisture.

Water is wet .

(informal) Of a person, ineffectual.

Don't be so wet .

(slang) Of a woman or girl, sexually aroused.

He got me all wet .

(slang, of a person) Inexperienced in a task or profession; having the characteristics of a rookie.

That guy's wet ; after all, he just started yesterday.

(of a scientist or laboratory) Working with chemical or biological matter.

(chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.

the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed

Permitting alcoholic beverages, as during Prohibition.

* 1995 , Richard F. Hamm, Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment

The wet states would be "the greatest beneficiaries" because the amendment would root out the liquor traffic within their cities.

(fountain pens and calligraphy) Depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.

* This pen's a wet writer, so it'll feather on this cheap paper.

(slang, archaic) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.

(Prior)

Covered in a sauce.

* 2000 , Robert Allen Palmatier, Food: a dictionary of literal and nonliteral terms , page 372

A chimichanga (MWCD: 1982) is a burrito that is deep-fried, rather than baked, and is served in the fashion of a wet burrito.

* 2005 , Restaurant business , Volume 104, Issues 1-10

The new item is its first "wet ," or sauce-topped, burrito.

* 2011 , J. Gabriel Gates, Charlene Keel, Dark Territory , page 13

But I'm getting the wet burrito.” Ignacio looked down at some sort of a tomato sauce–covered tortilla tube.

Synonyms

* (covered with liquid) damp, saturated, soaked * (of weather or a day) damp, raining, rainy * (sexually aroused) horny * (made up of liquid) wetting * (ineffectual) feeble, hopeless, useless * (inexperienced) green, wet behind the ears * (burrito) chimichanga

Antonyms

* (covered with liquid) dry * (of weather or a day) dry * (of a scientist or lab) dry

Derived terms

* all wet * wet bar * wet behind the ears * wet blanket * wetland * wet-look * wetware * wetwork

Noun

(en noun)

Liquid or moisture.

* Milton

Now the sun, with more effectual beams, / Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet / From drooping plant.

Rainy weather.

Don't go out in the wet .

(British, pejorative) A moderate Conservative.

(colloquial) An alcoholic drink.

* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, page 60:

‘A pity,’ said Jim, ‘I thought we was going to have a free wet .’

Verb

To cover or impregnate with liquid.

To urinate accidentally in or on.

Johnny wets the bed several times a week.

To become wet

Derived terms

* wet oneself * wet one's beak * wet one's whistle * wet the baby's head * wetten * wetting