What is "boring"

Bore \Bore\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bored; p. pr. & vb. n. Boring.] [OE. borien, AS. borian; akin to Icel. bora, Dan. bore, D. boren, OHG. por?n, G. bohren, L. forare, Gr. ? to plow, Zend bar. [root]9

1. ] 1. 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.
   --Shak.

2. 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.
   --T. W. Harris.

3. 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. ``What bustling crowds I bored.''
   --Gay.

4. To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.

   He bores me with some trick.
   --Shak.

   Used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
   --Carlyle.

5. To befool; to trick. [Obs.]

   I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, Baffled and bored, it seems.
   --Beau. & Fl.

Boring \Bor"ing\, n.

1. The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.

   One of the most important applications of boring is in the formation of artesian wells.
   --Tomlinson.

2. A hole made by boring.

3. pl. The chips or fragments made by boring.

   Boring bar, a revolving or stationary bar, carrying one or more cutting tools for dressing round holes.

   Boring tool (Metal Working), a cutting tool placed in a cutter head to dress round holes.
   --Knight.

mid-15c., "action of piercing," from bore (v.). From 1853 in reference to animals that bore; 1840 in the sense "wearying, causing ennui."

1. Causing boredom. n. 1 A pit or hole which has been bore#Verbd. 2 Fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled. v

2. (present participle of bore English)

adj. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome]

1. n. the act of drilling [syn: drilling]

2. the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum [syn: drilling, oil production]

Boring often refers to anything that causes a state in an individual without anything in particular to do, and not interested in their surroundings.

Boring may also refer to:

• Boring (earth), the drilling of holes or tunnels in the earth
  • Tunnel boring machine (TBM) machine used in boring tunnels or shafts
  • Microtunnel boring machine (MTBM), machine used in boring small tunnels or shafts
• Boring (manufacturing), a specific type of hole drilling in manufactured products
• Earth-boring dung beetle, a family of beetles that excavate burrows in which to lay their eggs
• An excavation made by an organism in a hard substrate through the process of bioerosion

• Boring, Maryland, United States
• Boring, Oregon, United States
  • Boring Lava Field
• Boring, Tennessee

In arts and entertainment:

• "Boring" (The Young Ones), an episode of The Young Ones
• David Boring, the title character of Daniel Clowes's graphic novel of the same name
• "Boring (It's Too Late)", a song by Medina from Forever

• Boring (surname)

Boring is a surname. Notable people with that surname include:

• Edwin G. Boring (18861968), American experimental psychologist
• Floyd Boring (19152008), American Secret Service agent
• Mel Boring (AKA Melvin Lyle Boring, born 1939), American children's author, father of Jeremy Boring Davies
• Wayne Boring (190587), American comic book artist best known for his work on Superman in the 1940s and 1950s
• William A. Boring (18591937), American architect who co-designed the Immigration Station at Ellis Island in New York harbor

Boring was the third episode of The Young Ones, a British sitcom. It was written by Ben Elton, Rik Mayall, and Lise Mayer, and directed by Paul Jackson. It was first aired on BBC2 on 23 November 1982.

This episode is rarely repeated on television because of its racial content, including two uses of "coon", one use of " sambo", and one use of " nigger". All three words are spoken in a scene by a Caucasian policeman in sunglasses unaware that his interlocutor is white until he removes them, satirising the severe racial issues that affected the police at this time. When it is shown on television, it is edited to remove these references.

In machining, boring is the process of enlarging a hole that has already been drilled (or cast), by means of a single-point cutting tool (or of a boring head containing several such tools), for example as in boring a gun barrel or an engine cylinder. Boring is used to achieve greater accuracy of the diameter of a hole, and can be used to cut a tapered hole. Boring can be viewed as the internal-diameter counterpart to turning, which cuts external diameters.

There are various types of boring. The boring bar may be supported on both ends (which only works if the existing hole is a through hole), or it may be supported at one end (which works for both through holes and blind holes). Lineboring (line boring, line-boring) implies the former. Backboring (back boring, back-boring) is the process of reaching through an existing hole and then boring on the "back" side of the workpiece (relative to the machine headstock).

Because of the limitations on tooling design imposed by the fact that the workpiece mostly surrounds the tool, boring is inherently somewhat more challenging than turning, in terms of decreased toolholding rigidity, increased clearance angle requirements (limiting the amount of support that can be given to the cutting edge), and difficulty of inspection of the resulting surface (size, form, surface roughness). These are the reasons why boring is viewed as an area of machining practice in its own right, separate from turning, with its own tips, tricks, challenges, and body of expertise, despite the fact that they are in some ways identical.

The first boring machine tool was invented by John Wilkinson in 1775.

Boring and turning have abrasive counterparts in internal and external cylindrical grinding. Each process is chosen based on the requirements and parameter values of a particular application.

Boring is drilling a hole, tunnel, or well in the earth. Boring is used for a various applications in geology, agriculture, hydrology, civil engineering, and mineral exploration. Today, most earth drilling serves one of the following purposes:

• return samples of the soil and/or rock through which the drill passes
• access rocks from which material can be extracted
• access rocks which can then be measured
• provide access to rock for purposes of providing engineering support

Unlike drilling in other materials where the aim is to create a hole for some purpose, often the case of drilling or coring is to get an understanding of the ground/lithology. This may be done for prospecting to identify and quantify an ore body for mining, or to determining the type of foundations needed for a building or raised structure, or for underground structures, including tunnels and deep basements where an understanding of the ground is vital to determining how to excavate and the support philosophy. Drilling is also used in vertical and inclined shaft construction.