Bore

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Bore or Bores often refer to:

• Boredom
• Drill

Relating to holes

• Boring (earth), cutting a hole into the earth
• Boring (manufacturing), a machining process that enlarges a hole
  • Bore (engine), the diameter of a cylinder in a piston engine or a steam locomotive
  • Bore (wind instruments), the interior chamber of a wind instrument
  • Nominal bore, a pipe size standard
  • Water well, known as a water bore in Australia
• The hollow lumen of a gun barrel
  • Gauge (firearms), the inner diameter of the barrel of a firearm

Places

• Bore (Aanaa), a district of Ethiopia that includes the town of Bore
• Bore, Emilia-Romagna, a commune in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
• Boré, Mali, a village in Dangol Boré commune in the Mopti Region of Mali
• Bore, Norway, a small village in Klepp municipality in Rogaland county, Norway
• Bore Track, a track in the South Australian outback
• Bore Valley, South Georgia, Antarctica

People

• Bore (surname)
• Francisco Bores (1898–1972), Spanish artist

Maritime shipping

• Steamship Company Bore, a Finnish company that operated for a time within Silja Line
  • MS Bore, a car-passenger ferry built in 1960
  • SS Deneb, a cargo ship later renamed Bore VII

Other uses

• Bore War, a contemporary name for the Phoney War (1939–1940), an early phase of World War II
• Tidal bore, a type of tidal wave
• Undular bore, an atmospheric wave disturbance
• Bores, one of the dogs that tore apart Actaeon

See also

• Boar (disambiguation)
• Boer
• Bohr (disambiguation)
• Boor (disambiguation)
• Bored (disambiguation)
• Boredom (disambiguation)
• Boring (disambiguation)
• Drill (disambiguation)

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