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. The bore of a Wind instrument is its interior chamber that defines a flow path through which air travels and is set into vibration to produce sounds A cylinder is the central working part of a Reciprocating engine, the space in which a Piston travels A reciprocating engine, also often known as a piston engine, is a Heat engine that uses one or more reciprocating Pistons to convert
- 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. A tidal bore (or just bore, or eagre) is a tidal phenomenon in which the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave (or waves of water that travel Bore is a comune with 902 inhabitants in the Province of Parma, 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. The Dark One is a fictional entity and main antagonist of The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. The Wheel of Time (abbreviated by fans to WoT) is a series of epic fantasy novels written by the late American author James Oliver
"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. 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 A borehole is the generalised term for any narrow shaft drilled in the ground either vertically or horizontally 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 and the sport of paintball where smoothbore barrels are standard. For the ficitonal character see Drill Bit (Transformers. Drill bits are cutting tools used to create cylindrical holes A pipe is a tube or hollow cylinder used to convey materials or as a structural component Tubing is a Pipe or hollow cylinder for the conveyance of fluids (liquids or gases The term caliber or calibre designates the interior Diameter of a tube or the exterior diameter of a wire or rod Smoothbore refers to a Firearm or Cannon which does not have a rifled barrel. A shotgun (also known as a scattergun) is a Firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number A musket is a muzzle -loaded Smoothbore Long gun, which is intended to be fired from the shoulder The Gauge or bore of a Shotgun or Rifle is a unit of measurement used to express the Diameter of the barrel. Paintball is a sport in which players eliminate opponents from play by hitting them with dye-filled breakable oil and gelatin paintballs usually shot from a carbon dioxide or compressed-gas The exception is the .410 bore, which is . 410 inches.
- A person who is boring
Homophones
- boar (the animal)
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