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Bore vs Surprise - What's the difference?

bore | surprise |

As nouns the difference between bore and surprise

is that bore is farmer while surprise is something not expected.

As a verb surprise is

to cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted.

As an adjective surprise is

unexpected.

bore

English

(wikipedia bore)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; confer German drillen.

Verb

(bor)
  • (senseid)To inspire boredom in somebody.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He bores me with some trick.
  • * Carlyle
    • used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
  • (senseid)To make a hole through something.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored .
  • 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 bore for water or oil
    An insect bores into a tree.
  • To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
    • to bore''' a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to '''bore a hole
  • * T. W. Harris
    • short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood
  • To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
    • to bore one's way through a crowd
  • * John Gay
    • What bustling crowds I bored .
  • To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
    • This timber does not bore well.
  • To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
  • * Dryden
    • They take their flight boring to the west.
  • (of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.
    • (Crabb)
  • (obsolete) To fool; to trick.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, / Baffled and bored , it seems.
    Antonyms
    * interest
    Synonyms
    * See
    Related terms
    * (to make a hole) borer * (to inspire boredom) bored, boredom, boring

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hole drilled or milled through something.
    • the bore of a cannon
  • * Francis Bacon
    • the bores of wind instruments
  • The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired.
  • A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
  • A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
  • One who inspires boredom or lack of interest.
  • Something that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome affair.
  • * Hawthorne
    • It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.
  • Calibre; importance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
    Synonyms
    * See also

    Etymology 2

    Compare Icelandic word for "wave".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sudden and rapid flow of tide in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave; an eagre.

    • Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bear)

    • Anagrams

    * * * English irregular simple past forms English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    surprise

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (qualifier)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something not expected.
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert’s debut goal gives England victory over Scotland'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/14/england-scotland-international-friendly]
    • They had begun brightly but the opening goal was such a blow to their confidence it almost came as a surprise when Walcott, running through the inside-right channel, beat the offside trap and, checking back on to his left foot, turned a low shot beyond Allan McGregor in the Scotland goal.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Moldova 0-5 England , passage=England were graphically illustrating the huge gulf in class between the sides and it was no surprise when Lampard added the second just before the half hour. Steven Gerrard found his Liverpool team-mate Glen Johnson and Lampard arrived in the area with perfect timing to glide a header beyond Namasco.}}
  • (attributive) Unexpected.
  • The feeling that something unexpected has happened.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
  • (obsolete) A dish covered with a crust of raised pastry, but with no other contents.
    • (King)

    Synonyms

    * unexpected * (feeling) astonishment

    Derived terms

    * take by surprise

    Verb

    (surpris)
  • To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted.
    • It surprises me that I owe twice as much as I thought I did.
  • To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise.
    • He doesn’t know that I’m in the country – I thought I’d turn up at his house and surprise him.
  • To undergo or witness something unexpected.
    • He doesn’t surprise easily.
  • To cause surprise.
  • To attack unexpectedly.
  • To take unawares.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Unexpected.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I??? Why didn’t I telephone??? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”}} 1000 English basic words ----