Muzzle vs Bore - What's the difference?
muzzle | bore |
The protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout
The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from as opposed to the breech.
A device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
(chiefly, Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached; bridle
(obsolete, historical) An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.
To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxv. 4
(figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); gag, silence, censor.
* 1919 , :
(obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.
(obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
* (rfdate) Sir R. L'Estrange
(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.
(bear)
In transitive terms the difference between muzzle and bore
is that muzzle is to bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting while bore is to make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.In intransitive terms the difference between muzzle and bore
is that muzzle is to bring the muzzle or mouth near while bore is to push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.muzzle
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(wikipedia)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* muzzle blast * muzzle brake * muzzle compensator * muzzle energy * muzzleloader * muzzleloading * muzzle velocityVerb
(muzzl)- Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
- Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled , masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.
- The bear muzzles and smells to him.
Derived terms
* muzzlerReferences
* *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.