Bore vs Carried - What's the difference?
bore | carried |
(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.
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(lb) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
*1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) Ch.23:
*:"By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
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, title= To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
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To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
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To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet.
*(Bible), (w) xxxi.18
*:He carried away all his cattle.
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:Passion and revenge will carry them too far.
(lb) To stock or supply (something).
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(lb) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
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(lb) To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly; as, to carry a motion.
In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
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(lb) To have or maintain (something).
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(lb) To be transmitted; to travel.
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*1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Ch.1:
*:It might seem easy to hit the head of a barrel at that distance, but either the lads were not expert enough or else the snowballs, being of irregular shapes and rather light, did not carry well. Whatever the cause, the fact remained that the barrel received only a few scattering shots and these on the outer edges of the head.
To insult, to diss.
To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
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, title= (lb) To have on one's "person" (see examples).
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, title= To have propulsive power; to propel.
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To hold the head; said of a horse.
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(lb) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
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To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:The greater part carries it.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*:the carrying of our main point
(lb) To get possession of by force; to capture.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:The town would have been carried in the end.
To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply.
*(Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
*:He thought it carried something of argument in it.
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:It carries too great an imputation of ignorance.
(lb) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
* (1609-1674)
*:He carried himself so insolently in the house, and out of the house, to all persons, that he became odious.
To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
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A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
(computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition.
As verbs the difference between bore and carried
is that bore is (to inspire boredom) To inspire boredom in somebody while carried is past tense of carry.As a noun bore
is a hole drilled or milled through something.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)carried
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*carry
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Verb
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Fulham 0-5 Man Utd, passage=Nani collected the ball on the halfway line, drifted past Bryan Ruiz, and carried the ball unchallenged 50 yards down the left before picking out Welbeck for a crisp finish from seven yards.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.}}
Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
Synonyms
* (lift and bring to somewhere else) bear, move, transport * (stock, supply ): have, keep, stock, supply * (adopt) adopt, take on, take over * (have, maintain ): have, maintain * (be transmitted, travel ): be transmitted, travelAntonyms
* (in arithmetic) borrow (the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of subtraction)Derived terms
* carrier * carry a torch for * carry a tune * carry away * carry back * carry coals to Newcastle * carrycot * carry forward * carriable * carrier * carry off * carry on * carry oneself * carry one's heart on one's sleeve * carry one's weight * carry out * carry over * carry someone's water * carry the ball * carry the bat * carry the can * carry the day * carry the mail * carry the message to Garcia * carry the torch * carry through * carry water for * cash-and-carry * headcarry * speak softly and carry a big stickNoun
(carries)- Adjust your carry from time to time so that you don't tire too quickly.