Bore

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Bore or Bores may refer to:

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.

Places

Bore (woreda), a district of Ethiopia that includes the town of Bore
Bore, Norway, a village
Boré, Mali, a village
Bore, Emilia-Romagna, a commune in 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

See also

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