different between boring vs dryasdust

English

Etymology

From Middle English boryng (“making a hole”); equivalent to bore +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?????/
• Rhymes: -?????

Noun

boring (plural borings)

1. A pit or hole which has been bored.
   • 1992, J. Patrick Powers, Construction dewatering: new methods and applications, p. 191:

     It is common in urban areas that a great many borings exist from prior construction work.

2. Fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
3. Any organism that bores into a hard surface

Verb

boring

1. present participle of bore

Derived terms

• tunnel boring machine

Adjective

boring (comparative more boring, superlative most boring)

1. Causing boredom or tiredness; making you to feel tired and impatient.

   What a boring film that was! I almost fell asleep.

2. Used, or designed to be used, to drill holes.

   boring equipment

3. Capable of penetrating; piercing.

Synonyms

• dull, mind-numbing (colloquial), tedious
• See also Thesaurus:boring

Derived terms

• boringly
• boringness

Related terms

• bore
• bored
• boredom

Translations

Anagrams

• orbing, robing

Danish

Etymology

From the verb bore (“drill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?o???e?]

Noun

boring c (singular definite boringen, plural indefinite boringer)

1. drill hole
2. drilling

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

From boren +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bo?.r??/
• (Belgium)
• Hyphenation: bo?ring
• Rhymes: -o?r??

Noun

boring f (plural boringen, diminutive borinkje n)

1. drilling

   offshoreboring — offshore drilling

2. bore of a car's cylinder or canon

English

Etymology

From the fictitious character Jonas Dryasdust, created by Sir Walter Scott, from dry as dust.

Noun

dryasdust (plural dryasdusts)

1. A dull, boring or pedantic speaker or writer.
   • 1897: Thomas Carlyle

     ... how can Dryasdust interpret such things, the dark chaotic dullard, who knows the meaning of nothing cosmic or noble, nor ever will know?

Adjective

dryasdust (not comparable)

1. Having the qualities of a dryasdust.
   • 2006: Paula Marantz Cohen in The American Scholar

     ... Casaubon, the dryasdust scholar in Middlemarch, is said to woo his bride with a “frigid rhetoric . . . as sincere as the bark of a dog, or the cawing of an amorous rook.”