Bore

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Bore or Bores may refer to:

• Drill

Relating to holes

• A hole drilled or milled by boring (manufacturing), especially a large hole:
  • Bore (engine), the diameter of a cylinder in a piston engine
  • Bore (wind instruments), the interior chamber of a wind instrument
  • Gauge (bore diameter), the inner diameter of the barrel of a firearm
  • Nominal Pipe Size, a pipe size standard.
  • Water well, known as a bore in Australia

Places

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

People

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

Maritime shipping

• Steamship Company Bore, a Finnish company
  • MS Bore, a car-passenger ferry built in 1960 for Steamship Company Bore
  • SS Deneb, a cargo ship later sold to Steamship Company Bore and renamed Bore VII

Other uses

• Bore, a metaphysical concept associated with the Dark One in the Wheel of Time book series
• 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 atmosperic wave disturbance
• A person who causes boredom

See also

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