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Bore

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Bore or Bores often refer to:

Relating to holes

  • 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
    • Gauge (firearms), the inner diameter of the barrel of a firearm
    • Nominal bore, 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, 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

See also

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