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
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Chore
A routine or minor duty or task.
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Bore
(of an athlete or racehorse) push another competitor out of the way.
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Chore
An unpleasant or burdensome task
What a chore it was cleaning out the garage.
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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.
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Bore
The hollow part inside a gun barrel or other tube.
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Chore
To do chores.
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Bore
Short for borehole
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Chore
To steal.
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Bore
A person whose talk or behaviour is dull and uninteresting
He can be a crashing bore
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Chore
A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.
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Bore
A steep-fronted wave caused by the meeting of two tides or by the constriction of a tide rushing up a narrow estuary.
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Chore
A choir or chorus.
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Bore
To make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill.
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Chore
To do chores.
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Bore
To form (a tunnel, for example) by drilling, digging, or burrowing.
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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
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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).
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Bore
To proceed or advance steadily or laboriously
A destroyer boring through heavy seas.
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Bore
To make weary by being dull, repetitive, or tedious
The movie bored us.
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Bore
Past tense of bear1.
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Bore
A hole or passage made by or as if by use of a drill.
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Bore
A hollow, usually cylindrical chamber or barrel, as of a firearm.
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Bore
The interior diameter of a hole, tube, or cylinder.
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Bore
The caliber of a firearm.
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Bore
A drilling tool.
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Bore
One that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious.
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Bore
See tidal bore.
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Bore
(transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
Reading books really bores me, films are much more exciting.
Bore someone to death
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Bore
(transitive) To make a hole through something.
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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.
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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
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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
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Bore
(intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
This timber does not bore well.
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Bore
(intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
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Bore
(obsolete) To fool; to trick.
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Bore
A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
The bore of a cannon
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Bore
The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
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Bore
A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
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Bore
A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
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Bore
The place where such a well exists.
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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.
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Bore
Something dull or uninteresting.
What a bore that movie was! There was no action, and the dialogue was totally uncreative.
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Bore
Calibre; importance.
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Bore
A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Bore
To befool; to trick.
I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned,Baffled and bored, it seems.
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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).
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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.
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Bore
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
They take their flight . . . boring to the west.
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Bore
To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; - said of a horse.
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Bore
A hole made by boring; a perforation.
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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.
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Bore
The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
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Bore
A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
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Bore
Caliber; importance.
Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
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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.
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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.
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Bore
A person who evokes boredom
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Bore
A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
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Bore
Diameter of a tube or gun barrel
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Bore
A hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes
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Bore
Cause to be bored
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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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