Boring (medicine) and map 1, noun (oh)

Boring (medicine)

boring

1. The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks. "One of the most important applications of boring is in the formation of artesian wells." (Tomlinson)

2. A hole made by boring.

3. The chips or fragments made by boring. Boring bar, a revolving or stationary bar, carrying one or more cutting tools for dressing round holes.

<chemistry> Boring tool, a cutting tool placed in a cutter head to dress round holes.

Source: Websters Dictionary

map 1, noun (oh)

[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Medieval Latin; Origin: mappa, from Latin, 'cloth, towel']
a drawing of a particular area for example a city or country, which shows its main features, such as its roads, rivers, mountains etc
::According to the map we should turn left.
::I'll draw a map of where we live.
on a map
::I'm just trying to find Vancouver Island on the map.
map of
::a large-scale map of Mexico City
street/road/route map
::a full colour street map of Amsterdam
::Do you know how to read a map (=understand the information it gives) ?
a drawing of an area showing some kind of special feature, for example the type of rocks, weather, population etc
-synonym chart chart
::an archaeological map of the area
::the colour weather map in the newspaper
political map
(=one showing where political parties have power, or where countries are)
put sth on the map
to make a place famous
::It was the Olympic Games that really put Seoul on the map.
off the map
informal a long way from any large town
::It's a small place in Nebraska. Right off the map.
-see also wipe sth off the map at wipe 1 (8)

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