Bore or Bores often refer to: *

Boredom In conventional usage, boredom, , or tedium is an emotion characterized by Interest (emotion), uninterest in one's surrounding, often caused by a lack of distractions or occupations. Although, "There is no universally accepted definition of bo ...

Drill A drill is a tool used for making round holes or driving fasteners. It is fitted with a drill bit for making holes, or a screwdriver bit for securing fasteners. Historically, they were powered by hand, and later mains power, but cordless b ...

Relating to holes

Boring (earth) Boring is drilling a hole, tunnel, or well in the Earth. It is used for various applications in geology, agriculture, hydrology, civil engineering, and mineral exploration. Today, most Earth drilling serves one of the following purposes: * return ...

, cutting a hole into the earth *

Boring (manufacturing) In machining, boring is the process of enlarging a hole that has already been drilled (or casting, cast) by means of a Tool bit, single-point cutting tool (or of a boring head containing several such tools), such as in boring a gun barrel or an ...

, a machining process that enlarges a hole **

Bore (engine) In a piston engine, the bore (or cylinder bore) is the diameter of each cylinder. Engine displacement is calculated based on bore, stroke length and the number of cylinders: displacement = The stroke ratio, determined by dividing the bore b ...

, the diameter of a cylinder in a piston engine or a steam locomotive **

Bore (wind instruments) In music, the bore of a wind instrument (including woodwind and brass) is its interior chamber. This defines a flow path through which air travels, which is set into vibration to produce sounds. The shape of the bore has a strong influence on ...

, the interior chamber of a wind instrument **

Gauge (firearms) The gauge (in American English or more commonly referred to as bore in British English) of a firearm is a unit of measurement used to express the inner diameter (bore diameter) and other necessary parameters to define in general a smoothbore Gun b ...

, the inner diameter of the barrel of a firearm **

Nominal bore Nominal Pipe Size (NPS) is a North American set of standard sizes for pipes used for high or low pressures and temperatures. "Nominal" refers to pipe in non-specific terms and identifies the diameter of the hole with a non-dimensional number (fo ...

, a pipe size standard **

Water well A well is an excavation or structure created on the earth by digging, driving, or drilling to access liquid resources, usually water. The oldest and most common kind of well is a water well, to access groundwater in underground aquifers. The ...

, known as a water bore in Australia

Places

* Bore (Aanaa), a district of Ethiopia that includes the town of Bore *

Bore, Emilia-Romagna Bore (Parmigiano: or ; Piacentino: ; locally ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Parma, Emilia-Romagna, central Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. I ...

, a commune in Emilia-Romagna, Italy * Boré, Mali, a village in Dangol Boré commune in the Mopti Region of Mali *

Bore, Norway Bore is a village in Klepp municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The village is located about northwest of the municipal centre of Kleppe. The village lies between the river Figgjoelva, the lake Orrevatnet Orrevatnet is a lake in the muni ...

, a small village in Klepp municipality in Rogaland county, Norway *

Bore Track The Bore Track is a 4WD track in South Australia roughly following the Queensland border from Cameron Corner to Innamincka. It is a narrow, rarely used, scenic alternative to the Strzelecki Track, passing through sand dunes and clay pans of ...

, a track in the South Australian outback *

Bore Valley Bore Valley () is a valley that is long in a north–south direction, extending from Lewis Pass to Grytviken in Cumberland Bay, South Georgia. It was first surveyed and named "Bores Dal" by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE) under Otto N ...

, South Georgia, Antarctica

People

Bore (surname) Bore or Boré is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Albert Bore (born 1946), British nuclear physicist and politician *Etienne de Boré (1741–1820), first mayor of New Orleans *Eugène Boré (1809–1878), Roman Catholic mission ...

Francisco Bores Francisco Bores (Madrid, May 6, 1898 - Paris, May 10, 1972) was an important figure of twentieth-century European art. His presence was important among the second wave of Spanish artists who arrived in Paris in the 1920s, which also included Pablo P ...

(1898–1972), Spanish artist

Maritime shipping

Steamship Company Bore A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move (turn) propellers or paddlewheels. The first steamships c ...

, a Finnish company that operated for a time within

Silja Line Silja Line is a Finnish shipping company and cruiseferry brand owned and operated by the Estonian shipping company AS Tallink Grupp, for car, cargo and passenger traffic between Finland and Sweden. The former company Silja Oy—today Tallink S ...

** , a car-passenger ferry built in 1960 ** SS ''Deneb'', a cargo ship later renamed ''Bore VII''

Other uses

Bore War The Phoney War (; ; ) was an eight-month period at the outset of World War II during which there were virtually no Allied military land operations on the Western Front from roughly September 1939 to May 1940. World War II began on 3 Septembe ...

, a contemporary name for the Phoney War (1939–1940), an early phase of World War II *

Tidal bore A tidal bore, often simply given as bore in context, is a tidal phenomenon in which the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave (or waves) of water that travels up a river or narrow bay, reversing the direction of the river or bay's cu ...

, a type of tidal wave *

Undular bore In meteorology, an undular bore is a wave disturbance in the Earth's atmosphere and can be seen through unique cloud formations. They normally occur within an area of the atmosphere which is stable in the low levels after an outflow boundary or ...

, an atmospheric wave disturbance

Relating to holes

Places

People

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