Bore or Bores often refer to:

  • Boredom
  • Drill

Relating to holes

  • Boring (earth), cutting a hole into the earth
  • 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
  • Nominal bore, a pipe size standard
  • Water well, known as a water bore in Australia
  • The hollow lumen of a gun barrel
  • Gauge (firearms), the inner diameter of the barrel of a firearm

Places

  • Bore (Aanaa), 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
  • , 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
  • Bores, one of the dogs that tore apart Actaeon

See also

  • Boar (disambiguation)
  • Boer
  • Bohr (disambiguation)
  • Boor (disambiguation)
  • Bored (disambiguation)
  • Boredom (disambiguation)
  • Boring (disambiguation)
  • Drill (disambiguation)