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Opening vs Bore - What's the difference?

opening | bore |

As verbs the difference between opening and bore

is that opening is present participle of lang=en while bore is (to inspire boredom) To inspire boredom in somebody.

As nouns the difference between opening and bore

is that opening is an act or instance of making or becoming open while bore is a hole drilled or milled through something.

As an adjective opening

is describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing a batsman who opens the innings or a bowler who opens the attack

opening

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or instance of making or becoming open.
    • The daily openings of the day lily bloom gives it its name.
    He remembered fondly the Christmas morning opening of presents.
  • Something that is open.
    • A salamander darted out of an opening in the rocks.
    He slipped through an opening in the crowd.
  • An act or instance of beginning.
    • There have been few factory and store openings in the US lately.
    Their opening of the concert with ''Brass in Pocket'' always fires up the crowd.
  • Something that is a beginning.
  • # The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
  • They were disappointed at the turnout for their opening , but hoped that word would spread.
  • # The initial period a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening.
  • # The first few measures of a musical composition.
  • # (chess) The first few moves in a game of chess.
  • John spends two hours a day studying openings , and another two hours studying endgames.
  • A vacant position, especially in an array.
    • Are there likely to be any openings on the Supreme Court in the next four years?
  • # A time available in a schedule.
  • If you'd like to make a booking with us, we have an opening at twelve o'clock.
  • The only two-hour openings for the hockey rink are between 1AM and 5AM.
  • # An unoccupied employment position.
  • We have an opening in our marketing department.
  • An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards. }}

    Synonyms

    * (something that is open) hole, gap, crevice * (available time) availability, slot * See also

    Coordinate terms

    * (opening of an art show) vernissage

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (cricket)

    • Derived terms

    * grand opening * market opening * opening batsman * opening ceremony * opening credits * opening day * opening fire * opening hours * opening of an envelope * soft opening ----

    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)
  • (senseid)To inspire boredom in somebody.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He bores me with some trick.
  • * Carlyle
    • used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
  • (senseid)To make a hole through something.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored .
  • 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 bore for water or oil
    An insect bores into a tree.
  • To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
    • to bore''' a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to '''bore a hole
  • * T. W. Harris
    • short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood
  • To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
    • to bore one's way through a crowd
  • * John Gay
    • What bustling crowds I bored .
  • To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
    • This timber does not bore well.
  • To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
  • * Dryden
    • They take their flight boring to the west.
  • (of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.
    • (Crabb)
  • (obsolete) To fool; to trick.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, / Baffled and bored , it seems.
    Antonyms
    * interest
    Synonyms
    * See
    Related terms
    * (to make a hole) borer * (to inspire boredom) bored, boredom, boring

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hole drilled or milled through something.
    • the bore of a cannon
  • * Francis Bacon
    • the bores of wind instruments
  • 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
    • It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.
  • Calibre; importance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
    Synonyms
    * See also

    Etymology 2

    Compare Icelandic word for "wave".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sudden and rapid flow of tide in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave; an eagre.

    • Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bear)

    • Anagrams

    * * * English irregular simple past forms English terms with multiple etymologies ----