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Bore vs. Chore — What's the Difference?

Bore vs. Chore — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Bore and Chore

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Bore

Make (a hole) in something with a tool or by digging
The drill can bore through rock
Bore a hole in the wall to pass the cable through
His eyes bored into hers

Chore

A routine or minor duty or task.

Bore

(of an athlete or racehorse) push another competitor out of the way.

Chore

An unpleasant or burdensome task
What a chore it was cleaning out the garage.

Bore

Cause (someone) to feel weary and uninterested by dull talk or behaviour
Timid women quickly bore her silly
She is too polite to bore us with anecdotes
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Chore

A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.
Washing dishes is a chore, but we cannot just stop eating.
The children were made to do their daily chores before being allowed to play games.
I used to enjoy being self-employed, but it's become a bit of a chore recently.

Bore

The hollow part inside a gun barrel or other tube.

Chore

To do chores.

Bore

Short for borehole

Chore

To steal.

Bore

A person whose talk or behaviour is dull and uninteresting
He can be a crashing bore

Chore

A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.

Bore

A steep-fronted wave caused by the meeting of two tides or by the constriction of a tide rushing up a narrow estuary.

Chore

A choir or chorus.

Bore

To make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill.

Chore

To do chores.

Bore

To form (a tunnel, for example) by drilling, digging, or burrowing.

Chore

A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee;
Estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars
The job of repairing the engine took several hours
The endless task of classifying the samples
The farmer's morning chores

Bore

To make a hole in or through something with or as if with a drill
"three types of protein that enable the cells to bore in and out of blood vessels" (Elisabeth Rosenthal).

Bore

To proceed or advance steadily or laboriously
A destroyer boring through heavy seas.

Bore

To make weary by being dull, repetitive, or tedious
The movie bored us.

Bore

Past tense of bear1.

Bore

A hole or passage made by or as if by use of a drill.

Bore

A hollow, usually cylindrical chamber or barrel, as of a firearm.

Bore

The interior diameter of a hole, tube, or cylinder.

Bore

The caliber of a firearm.

Bore

A drilling tool.

Bore

One that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious.

Bore

See tidal bore.

Bore

(transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
Reading books really bores me, films are much more exciting.
Bore someone to death

Bore

(transitive) To make a hole through something.

Bore

(intransitive) 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.

Bore

(transitive) 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

Bore

(transitive) 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

Bore

(intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
This timber does not bore well.

Bore

(intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

Bore

(obsolete) To fool; to trick.

Bore

A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
The bore of a cannon

Bore

The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.

Bore

A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.

Bore

A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.

Bore

The place where such a well exists.

Bore

One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
My neighbour is such a bore when he talks about his coin collection.

Bore

Something dull or uninteresting.
What a bore that movie was! There was no action, and the dialogue was totally uncreative.

Bore

Calibre; importance.

Bore

A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.

Bore

To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.
I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored.

Bore

To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, 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, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood.

Bore

To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.

Bore

To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
He bores me with some trick.
Used to come and bore me at rare intervals.

Bore

To befool; to trick.
I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned,Baffled and bored, it seems.

Bore

To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).

Bore

To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.

Bore

To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
They take their flight . . . boring to the west.

Bore

To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; - said of a horse.

Bore

A hole made by boring; a perforation.

Bore

The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
The bores of wind instruments.
Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing.

Bore

The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.

Bore

A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.

Bore

Caliber; importance.
Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.

Bore

A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.

Bore

A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.

Bore

A person who evokes boredom

Bore

A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

Bore

Diameter of a tube or gun barrel

Bore

A hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes

Bore

Cause to be bored

Bore

Make a hole with a pointed power or hand tool;
Don't drill here, there's a gas pipe
Drill a hole into the wall
Drill for oil

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