As nouns the difference between boring and lathe
is that
boring is a pit or hole which has been d while
lathe is (obsolete) an administrative division of the county of kent, in england, from the anglo-saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century or
lathe can be a machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
As verbs the difference between boring and lathe
is that
boring is while
lathe is to invite; bid; ask or
lathe can be to shape with a lathe.
As an adjective boring
is causing boredom.
boring English
Noun
( en noun)
A pit or hole which has been d.
* 1992 , J. Patrick Powers, Construction dewatering: new methods and applications , p. 191:
- It is common in urban areas that a great many borings exist from prior construction work.
Fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
Verb
(head)
Adjective
( en adjective)
Causing boredom.
- What a boring film that was!
Synonyms
* dull, mind-numbing (colloquial), tedious
* See also
Derived terms
*
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Related terms
* bore
* bored
* boredom
Anagrams
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lathe Etymology 1
From (etyl) lathen, from (etyl) .
Alternative forms
* (l)
Verb
To invite; bid; ask.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) *.
Alternative forms
* (l)
Noun
( en noun)
(obsolete) An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century.
Etymology 3
(etyl) . More at lade.
Noun
( en noun)
A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
- He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe .
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- Of the windows of the village there was one yet more often occupied; for on Sundays from morning to night, and every morning when the weather was bright, one could see at the dormer-window of the garret the profile of Monsieur Binet bending over his lathe , whose monotonous humming could be heard at the Lion d'Or.
The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; a lay, or batten.
(obsolete) A granary; a barn.
- (Chaucer)
Verb
(lath)
To shape with a lathe.
(computer graphics) To produce a 3D model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
See also
* lath
* turner
Anagrams
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