Bore or Bores often refer to:
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Boredom
In conventional usage, boredom, ennui, or tedium is an emotional and occasionally psychological state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, is listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occu ...
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Drill
A drill is a tool used for making round holes or driving fasteners. It is fitted with a bit, either a drill or driverchuck. Hand-operated types are dramatically decreasing in popularity and cordless battery-powered ones proliferating due to ...
Relating to holes
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Boring (manufacturing)
In machining, boring is the process of enlarging a hole that has already been drilled (or cast) by means of a single-point cutting tool (or of a boring head containing several such tools), such as in boring a gun barrel or an engine cylinder. Bor ...
, a machining process that enlarges a hole
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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 by ...
, the diameter of a cylinder in a piston engine or a steam locomotive
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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 t ...
, the interior chamber of a wind instrument
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Gauge (firearms)
The gauge (or commonly bore in British English) of a firearm is a unit of measurement used to express the inner diameter (bore diameter) of the barrel.
Gauge is determined from the weight of a solid sphere of lead that will fit the bore of the f ...
, the inner diameter of the barrel of a firearm
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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 (for ...
, a pipe size standard
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Water well
A well is an excavation or structure created in the ground 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. Th ...
, known as a bore in Australia
Places
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Bore (woreda)
Bore ( Oromo: ''Booree'') is one of the Aanaas in the Oromia of Ethiopia. Part of the Guji Zone, Bore is bordered on the south by Ana Sora, on the west by the Uraga, and on the north and east by the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples R ...
, a district of Ethiopia that includes the town of Bore
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Bore, Emilia-Romagna
Bore (Parmigiano: or ; Piacentino: ; locally ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Parma, Emilia-Romagna, central Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It ...
, a commune in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Boré, Mali, a village in Dangol Boré commune in the Mopti Region of Mali
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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, and the seashore. Bore Church sit ...
, a small village in Klepp municipality in Rogaland county, Norway
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Bore Track
The Bore Track is a 4WD track in South Australia roughly following the Queensland border from Cameron Corner, Queensland, Cameron Corner to Innamincka, South Australia, Innamincka. It is a narrow, rarely used, scenic alternative to the Strzele ...
, a track in the South Australian outback
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Bore Valley
Bore Valley () is a valley that is long in a north–south direction, extending from Lewis Pass (Antarctica), Lewis Pass to Grytviken in Cumberland Bay, South Georgia Island, South Georgia. It was first surveyed and named "Bores Dal" by the Swedis ...
, South Georgia, Antarctica
People
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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 missi ...
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Francisco Bores Francisco Bores (Madrid, May 6, 1898 - Paris, May 10, 1972) was an important figure of twentieth-century European art. His presence was fundamental in the second wave of Spanish artists who arrived in Paris in the 1920s, in which he included Pablo P ...
(1898–1972), Spanish artist
Maritime shipping
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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 ca ...
, a Finnish company that operated for a time within
Silja Line
Silja Line is a Swedish-Finnish cruiseferry brand operated by the Estonian ferry company AS Tallink Grupp, for car, cargo and passenger traffic between Finland and Sweden.
The former company Silja Oy—today Tallink Silja Oy—is a subsidiary ...
** , a car-passenger ferry built in 1960
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SS ''Deneb'', a cargo ship later renamed ''Bore VII''
Other uses
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Bore War
The Phoney War (french: Drôle de guerre; german: Sitzkrieg) was an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there was only one limited military land operation on the Western Front, when French troops invaded Germ ...
, a contemporary name for the Phoney War (1939–1940), an early phase of World War II
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Tidal bore
Tidal is the adjectival form of tide.
Tidal may also refer to:
* ''Tidal'' (album), a 1996 album by Fiona Apple
* Tidal (king), a king involved in the Battle of the Vale of Siddim
* TidalCycles, a live coding environment for music
* Tidal (servic ...
, a type of tidal wave
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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
See also
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Boar (disambiguation)
Boar may refer to:
Animals
*Wild boar
*Boar, adult male domestic pig
*Boar, adult male of several other species; see List of animal names
* Iron Age pig, a pseudo-primitive breed of boar
*Razorback, hybrid boar in North America
*Boar, adult male ...
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Boer
Boers ( ; af, Boere ()) are the descendants of the Dutch-speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Cape Colony, Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. From 1652 to 1795, the Dutch East India Company controll ...
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Bohr (disambiguation) Bohr most often refers to:
* Niels Bohr (1885–1962), Danish atomic physicist, Nobel Prize in physics 1922
Bohr may also refer to:
People
* Aage Bohr (1922–2009), Danish nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize in physics 1975, son of Niels Bohr
* Chris ...
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Boor (disambiguation)
Boor may refer to:
*boor, a peasant or uncultured person; one who lacks in education, knowledge, refinement and social graces
** bur, defined by the Rambam (Maimonides). A bur is a person having neither (ethical) Torah education nor virtues of ma ...
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Bored (disambiguation)
Bored refers to a state of boredom.
Bored may also refer to:
* Bored (band), Australian punk rock band
* "Bored" (song), a 2017 song by Billie Eilish from the soundtrack album of ''13 Reasons Why''
* "Bored", a song by Death Angel from the alb ...
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Boredom (disambiguation)
Boredom, tedium, ennui, is an emotional or psychological state of mind.
Boredom may also refer to:
* Boredoms, a Japanese rock band
* Wolf W-11 Boredom Fighter, a 1979 biplane designed to resemble WWI fighters
* '' The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiy ...
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Boring (disambiguation)
Boring may refer to:
*Something that causes boredom
Engineering and science
* Boring (earth), drilling a hole, tunnel, or well in the earth
** Tunnel boring machine, a machine used in boring tunnels
* Boring (manufacturing), enlarging a hole th ...
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Drill (disambiguation)
A drill is a tool or machine for cutting holes in a material.
Drill may also refer to:
Animals
* Drill (animal), a type of African primate
* Oyster drill, a type of snail
Military
* Military exercise
* Foot drill, the movements performed on a ...
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