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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.
- 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
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
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