Boring

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.	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.

Noun	1.	boring - the act of drilling Synonyms: drilling
	2.	boring - the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum Synonyms: oil production, drilling
Adj.	1.	boring - 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" Synonyms: deadening, ho-hum, irksome, tedious, tiresome, wearisome, dull, slow

acupunctuation, acupuncture, arid, bore, boresome, broach, drab, dreary, drill hole, drudging, dry, empiercement, exhausting, fatiguing, fixing, goring, gray, humdrum, impalement, irksome, lancing, long-drawn-out, penetration, perforation, piercing, pricking, prolix, punching, puncture, puncturing, repetitious, repetitive, same, samely, skewering, soporific, stale, stupefyingly boring, stuporific, terebration, tired, tiresome, tiring, transfixation, transfixion, transforation, trepanning, trephining, unending, unexciting, uninteresting, unrelieved, weariful, wearing, wearying, wordy, yawny

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