English-Finnish translations for bore

  • ikävystyttääEn halua ikävystyttää itseäni - en edes omilla puheillani. I have no desire to bore myself - not even with my own speeches. En aio ikävystyttää teitä mietinnön kaikkien suositusten yksityiskohdilla. I am not going to bore you with the details of every recommendation in the report. Voisin ikävystyttää teitä niillä, mutta ne kaikki sisältyvät mietinnön perusteluihin ja myös komission kertomukseen. I could bore you with them but they are all contained within the explanatory statement of the report and in the Commission report itself.
  • kairata
  • porataMatti porajaasiellä poraatahan
  • tehdä tylsäksi
  • tylsistyttää

Definition of bore

  • To inspire boredom in somebody
  • To make a hole through something
  • 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 by means of a boring instrument or apparatus
  • To make by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through
  • To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns
  • To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort
  • To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air
  • To fool; to trick
  • A hole drilled or milled through something, or its diameter
  • The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or its diameter
  • A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists
  • Something dull or uninteresting
  • Calibre; importance
  • A sudden and rapid flow of tide occuring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave

Examples

  • 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
  • to bore ones way through a crowd
  • This timber does not bore well.
  • the bore of a cannon

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