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Borer vs Bored - What's the difference?

borer | bored |

As a noun borer

is a person who is boring.

As a verb bored is

past tense of bore.

As an adjective bored is

suffering from boredom.

borer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who is boring
  • A person who bores, who drills.
  • A tool used for drilling.
  • An insect or insect larva that bores into wood.
  • One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock.
  • The hagfish (Myxine ).
    • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * apple borer * borer bomb * cork-borer * corn borer * instep borer * jig borer * rock-borer * moth-borer * raise borer * squash vine borer * stone-borer * sugar cane borer * sugar-maple borer * twig borer * vine borer * well-borer * wood-borer, woodborer

    Verb

    (head)
    • ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

  • drill bit
  • drill

    • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun , borer, boreri , borera, borera , boreru, borerima , borer, borere , boreru, boreri , boreru, borerima , borerom, borerima }}

    Synonyms

    * (drill bit) (l) * (drill)

    References

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    bored

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bore)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • suffering from boredom
  • uninterested, without attention
    • The piano teacher's bored look betrayed he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's boringly stereotype rendition of the brilliantly composed etudes
  • perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)

    • Related terms

    * bore * boredom * boring

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