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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 (engine)|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 (mechanical)|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 (material)|pipe]] or [[tubing (material)|tube]]
*The [[caliber]] of a gun; as a measurement it is generally used to refer to [[smoothbore]] guns such as [[shotgun]]s and [[musket]]s and is generally used as equivalent to [[Gauge (bore diameter)|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. The exception is the [[.410 bore]], which is .410 inches.
*A person who is [[boredom|boring]]
===Homophones===
*[[boar]] (the animal)
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