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boreable en · ADJ

Etymology

From bore + -able.

Meanings

1. Capable of being bored or drilled into.
   • One commercially available form of this type of bearing has a boreable 0.010 in.-thick lining of acetal copolymer, while another form has a thinner, 0.004 in.-thick, lining of the homopolymer. 1967, Eric Reeves Braithwaite, Lubrication and lubricants, page 409:
2. Capable of being bored, or made to lose interest in something.
   • Some factory workers are intolerably bored by monotonous tasks; others prefer them. The boreable, on the other hand, develop on occasion the most furious initiative in their efforts to escape boredom. 1948, Henry Hatfield, The Inventor and His World, page 32:

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