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| Domain | Definition |
Biology & Biotechnology | A bore hole in wood or bark made by an adult insect or by a larvae. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Any sort of passage, tubular or irregular, made by an organism feeding or excavating, more particularly by insects and marine borers. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A hole or well drilled or bored principally by mechanical means in order to explore geological conditions and/or to tap oil deposits. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BORE HOLE |
| English words defined with "BORE HOLE": Seed bag. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BORE HOLE": AIR-HOLE DRILLER ♦ borer hole, BRIAR CUTTER ♦ insect hole ♦ needle hole ♦ PLUGGING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ Well Plug. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bore hole | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BORE HOLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | borehul (bore, borer hole, burrow, grub, hole, insect hole, needle hole, pin hole, pinworm hole, shot hole, trial pit, tunnel), boregang (bore, borer hole, burrow, grub, hole, tunnel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | buisput (tubewell, tubular well), boring (calibre), boorgat (bore, borehole, boring, drill hole, drilled hole, hole, shot hole, trial pit, well), put (cave, cavity, well), nortonput (tubewell, tubular well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | toukkakäytävä (bore, borer hole, burrow, grub, hole, tunnel), porakaivo (borehole, drilled well, tubewell, tubular well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | trou de sonde (bore), sonde (bore, boring), sondage (bore, boring, prospecting by borings or trial pits, test boring), puits tubulaire, puit (bore, boring), pore hyphal, galerie d'insecte xylophage (bore, borer hole), galerie d'insecte (borer hole), forage (boring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Bohrung (bore, borehole, boring, drill-hole, drilling, sinking), Bohrloch (bore, borehole, boring, drill-hole, well), Bohrgang (borer hole, gallery, insect hole, mine, tunnel), Bohrbrunnen (tubewell, tubular well), Sonde (probe, sonde, tube), Rohrbrunnen (drilled well, tubewell, tubular well), Roehrenbrunnen (tubewell, tubular well), Insektenfrassgang (borer hole, insect hole), Hyphenbohrloch (hyphal hole), Frassgang (borer hole, gallery, insect hole, mine, tunnel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σύραγξ ξυλοφάγου,οπή ξυλοφάγου (bore, borer hole, grub, hole, tunnel), σωληνωτόν ή γεώτρητον φρέαρ (tubewell, tubular well), ερευνητική γεώτρηση (bore, boring, drill hole, hole, new-pool wildcat, well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tunnel (tunnel), trivellazione (bore, boring, drill hole, hole, well), sondaggio (poll, probing, sounding, survey), perforazione di sondaggio (bore, boring, drill hole, hole, well), perforazione di insetto (borer hole, insect hole), perforazione (boring, drilling, perforation), galleria di insetto (borer hole, insect hole), galleria (arcade, balcony, circle, gallery, tunnel), foro ifale (hyphal hole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | towl meainey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orebay olehay sondagem (pump), poro de hifa (hyphal hole), poço tubular (tubewell, tubular well), galeria de inseto (borer hole, insect hole), galeria de insecto xilófago (bore, borer hole, burrow, grub, hole, tunnel). (various references) gaurã de sondã. (various references) шпур (hole), буровая скважина (drillhole, drill-hole, mining hole, mining-hole). (various references) sondeo (canvass, feeler, overture, probe, probing, reconnaissance, sounding), pozo tubular (tubewell, tubular well), perforación hifal (hyphal hole), perforación (boring, drilling, perforation, piercing, puncture), mina de insecto (borer hole, insect hole), galería de insecto xilófago (bore, borer hole, burrow, grub, hole, tunnel), galería de insecto (borer hole, insect hole). (various references) borrbrunn (drilled well, tubewell, tubular well), borrad brunn (drilled well, tubewell, tubular well), rörbrunn (tubewell, tubular well), larvgång (bore, borer hole, grub, hole, tunnel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: borehole. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-h-l-o-o-r" | |
-2 letters: bolero. | |
-3 letters: obole, rebel, roble. | |
-4 letters: beer, bole, bolo, boor, bore, bree, broo, hebe, heel, helo, herb, here, herl, hero, hobo, hoer, hole, leer, lehr, lobe, lobo, lore, oboe, obol, oleo, orle, reel, robe, role. | |
-5 letters: bee, bel, boo, bro, eel, ere, her, hob, hoe, lee, lob, loo, obe, oho, ole, ooh, orb, ore. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-h-l-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: boreholes. | |
+3 letters: rhabdocoele. | |
+4 letters: rhabdocoeles. | |
+5 letters: chlorobenzene, honorableness. | |
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