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Fatigue vs Bored - What's the difference?

fatigue | bored |

As verbs the difference between fatigue and bored

is that fatigue is while bored is (bore).

As adjectives the difference between fatigue and bored

is that fatigue is tired while bored is suffering from boredom.

fatigue

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=December 29 , author=Paul Doyle , title=Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=Alan Pardew finished by far the most frustrated man at the Emirates, blaming fatigue for the fact that Arsenal were able to kill his team off in the dying minutes.}}
  • A menial task, especially in the military.
  • (engineering) A mechanism of material failure involving of crack growth caused by low-stress cyclic loading.
  • * 2013 , N. Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials , page 399
  • Mechanical failures due to fatigue have been the subject of engineering efforts for more than 150 years.

    Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * fatigues (military work clothing)

    Verb

    (fatigu)
  • to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion
  • to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted
  • (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
  • 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)
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