Boring
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Boring
often refers to anything that causes boredom.
Boring may also refer to:
Making holes
Places
In arts and entertainment:
People with the surname Boring
Boring
Boring often refers to anything that causes boredom.Boring may also refer to:Making holes*Boring , the drilling of holes or tunnels in the earth**Tunnel boring machine machine used in boring tunnels or shafts...
often refers to anything that causes boredom.
Boring may also refer to:
Making holes
- Boring (earth)Boring (earth)Boring is drilling a hole, tunnel, or well in the earth.-Earth boring:Boring is used for a wide variety of applications in geology, agriculture, hydrology, civil engineering, and oil and natural gas industries...
, the drilling of holes or tunnels in the earth- Tunnel boring machineTunnel boring machineA tunnel boring machine also known as a "mole", is a machine used to excavate tunnels with a circular cross section through a variety of soil and rock strata. They can bore through anything from hard rock to sand. Tunnel diameters can range from a metre to almost 16 metres to date...
(TBM) machine used in boring tunnels or shafts - Microtunnel boring machine (MTBM), machine used in boring small tunnels or shafts
- Tunnel boring machine
- Boring (manufacturing), a specific type of hole drilling in manufactured products
- Earth-boring dung beetleEarth-boring dung beetleGeotrupidae is a family of beetles in the order Coleoptera. They are commonly called dor beetles or earth-boring dung beetles. Most excavate burrows in which to lay their eggs...
, a family of beetles that excavate burrows in which to lay their eggs - An excavation made by an organism in a hard substrate through the process of bioerosionBioerosionBioerosion describes the erosion of hard ocean substrates – and less often terrestrial substrates – by living organisms. Marine bioerosion can be caused by mollusks, polychaete worms, phoronids, sponges, crustaceans, echinoids, and fish; it can occur on coastlines, on coral reefs, and...
Places
- Boring, MarylandBoring, MarylandBoring is an unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, at the intersection of Old Hanover Road and Pleasant Grove Road, about 5 miles north of Reisterstown...
, United States - Boring, OregonBoring, OregonBoring is an unincorporated community located in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, on Oregon Route 212. It is approximately eight miles south of Gresham and about the same distance from Clackamas, both suburbs of Portland. The town is roughly twenty-two miles southeast from downtown...
, United States- Boring Lava FieldBoring Lava FieldThe Boring Lava Field is an extinct Plio-Pleistocene volcanic field zone with at least 32 cinder cones and small shield volcanoes lying within a radius of 13 miles of Kelly Butte, which is approximately 4 miles east of downtown Portland, Oregon, in the United States...
- Boring Lava Field
In arts and entertainment:
- "Boring" (The Young Ones), an episode of The Young Ones
- David BoringDavid BoringDavid Boring is a comic series and graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. It was originally serialized as issues #19 through 21 of the comic book Eightball before being published in collected form by Pantheon Books in 2000...
, the title character of Daniel Clowes's graphic novel of the same name
People with the surname Boring
- Edwin G. BoringEdwin G. BoringEdwin Garrigues Boring was an experimental psychologist who later became one of the first historians of psychology. He was born on October 23, 1886 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in a Quaker family dominated by women; he was the youngest and only son in a family of four...
, one of the first historians of psychology - Wayne BoringWayne BoringWayne Boring was an American comic book artist best known for his work on Superman from the late 1940s to 1950s. He occasionally used the pseudonym Jack Harmon....
, comic book artist best known for Superman in the 1940s and 1950s - William Boring, an American architect who codesigned the Immigration Station at Ellis Island in New York harbor.