Bore 740676 217497920 2008-06-06T08:49:55Z Tassedethe 7098284 add cleanup tag {{Wiktionarypar|bore}} '''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) {{disambig-cleanup}} [[Category:Dutch loanwords]] [[Category:Firearm components]] [[fr:Bore (homonymie)]] [[sv:Bore]]