Bore
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Bore may refer to:
- Bore (wind instruments), the hole down the middle of a wind instrument
- Bore (engines), the drilled diameter of a cylinder in a piston engine.
- Tidal bore, a wave in a river caused by an incoming tide
- Bore Steamship Company, a Finnish shipping company
- Bore, Italy, a city in the province of Parma in Italy.
- Bore (woreda), a district in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia; and
- Bore, Ethiopia, a town in the woreda of Bore.
- Bore, the Dark One's prison in the Wheel of Time books.
"Bore" may also be used as a synonym for:
- The action of boring out a hole
- A borehole, as in an oil well or water well
- The tool creating this hole, i.e. a drill bit, especially in precision work
- The inner diameter of a pipe or tube
- The caliber of a gun; as a measurement it is generally used to refer to smoothbore guns such as shotguns and muskets and is generally used as equivalent to gauge which is the number of balls per pound of lead, later expressed in inches or millimeters; this use is generally archaic, though still used in British English. The exception is the .410 bore, which is .410 inches.
- A person who is boring
[edit] Homophones
- boar (the animal)
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