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The noun "bore" comes from the verb "bore", which had the meaning "[to] be tiresome or dull" first attested [in] 1768, a vogue word c. 1780 –81 according to Grose (1785); possibly a figurative extension of "to move forward slowly and persistently, as a [hole-] boring tool does." [7] A popular misconception is that Charles Dickens coined the ...
PDF was a proprietary format controlled by Adobe until it was released as an open standard on July 1, 2008, and published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 32000-1:2008, [7] [8] at which time control of the specification passed to an ISO Committee of volunteer industry experts.
Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension. The dictionary content is licensed from Oxford University Press's Oxford Languages. [3]
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Boring (earth), drilling a hole, tunnel, or well in the earth Tunnel boring machine, a machine used in boring tunnels; Boring (manufacturing), enlarging a hole that has already been drilled; Drilling, a cutting process that uses a drill bit to cut a hole of circular cross-section; Boring, a mechanism of bioerosion
As the global debt approaches $102 trillion, the United States and China are the top contributors to the increasing debt. According to data from the IMF and Visual Capitalist, in one year, the ...
The son, who the station did not identify, said that the plate should be read as "LOLO-CT-7," referencing the Tagalog word for grandfather, the model of the car and the number of grandchildren the ...
ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. [1] Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). [ 2 ] Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3 , defines the three-letter codes, aiming to cover all known natural ...