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| Domain | Definition |
Environment | Hole made with drilling equipment. (references) |
Mining | A hole with a drill, auger or other tools for exploring strata in search of minerals, for water supply, for blasting purposes, for proving the position of old workings, faults, and for releasing accumulations of gas or water. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. A hole with a drill, auger, or other tools for exploring strata in search of minerals, for water supply, for blasting purposes, for proving the position of old workings and faults, and for releasing accumulations of gas or water. b. A circular hole made by boring; esp. a deep hole of small diameter, such as an oil well or a water well. Also called well bore.See also:hole. (references) | |
Weather | Any exploratory hole drilled into the Earth or ice to gather geophysical data. Climate researchers often take ice core samples, a type of borehole, to predict atmospheric composition in earlier years. See ice core. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A well tends to be shallower and wider than a borehole.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Borehole."
Crosswords: BOREHOLE |
| Specialty definitions using "BOREHOLE": blind borehole process, borehole cable, borehole casing, borehole logging, borehole pressure, borehole sealing, borehole surveying ♦ cross-measure borehole ♦ designed borehole deflection ♦ gelatin borehole tube ♦ inclined borehole ♦ Owen's borehole surveying instrument ♦ photographic borehole survey, photomagnetic borehole surveying. (references) |
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| "BOREHOLE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BOREHOLE" is used about 105 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 105 | 31,781 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BOREHOLE": borehole-flow. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
borehole | 9 |
borehole pump | 9 |
borehole pump submersible | 4 |
borehole gamma logging natural | 3 |
borehole image processing system | 3 |
borehole seismic | 3 |
borehole geophysics software | 3 |
borehole camera | 3 |
borehole geophysics | 3 |
borehole video | 2 |
borehole logging | 2 |
borehole drilling | 2 |
borehole casing | 2 |
borehole televiewer | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BOREHOLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | borehullet blev plomberet med en selvvirkende spuns, roerlagt og taetnet med cement (and was then cased and cemented, the borehole was closed by an auto-sealing- plug), tilstedevaerelsen af stoerre dog-legs i et borehul skaber problemer som f.eks.brud som foelge af traethed paa boreudstyr og vaegtroerenes samlinger,slid paa samleled og boreroer,dannelse af key-seats,af render eller af vinduer i foringsroerene (and wear of tool joints and of drill pipes, gullies or windows in the casing, key seats, the existence of excessive dog legs in a borehole leads to such troubles as fatigue fracture of drill pipes and drill collar joints), kraftige pumper sproejter borevaesken ind i borestrengens inderste hulrum;den traenger ud gennem borekronens straalehuler og stiger derefter op gennem ringrummet mellem roer og borevaeg (returning to the surface up the annular space between the drill-string and the sides of the borehole, the drilling mud is forced by powerful pumps into the drill string and out of the nozzles of the bit), formaalet med at udfoere logging i borehullet er altid i sidste ende at udvinde olie,men resultaterne af kortla egningen af borehullet er nyttige paa mange maader,baade direkte og indirekte (but the results of borehole surveys are useful in a variety of ways both direct and indirect, the ultimate purpose of well logging is always that of winning oil), foringsroer er de tyndvaeggede staalroer,der benyttes til at fore borehullet (casing is the thin-walled steel pipe used to line the borehole), at sikre spraenghullets fordaemning, hvorved det kan modstaa virkningen fra spraengningen (to seal the infusion borehole well enough to withstand the effects of shotfiring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | boorgat (bore, bore hole, boring, drill hole, drilled hole, hole, shot hole, trial pit, well), mijngat (shot hole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | porakaivo (bore hole, drilled well, tubewell, tubular well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | trou de sonde (bore), trou de mine, sondage de reconnaissance, forage (boring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | bohrloch (bore, boring, drill-hole, well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γεώτρηση (drilling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | furat (bore, caliber, calibre, mortice, mortise), fúrólyuk (auger-hole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sondaggio di prova, foro da mina (shot hole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oreholebay furo (bore, boring, flat, hole, hub, loophole, orifice, perforation, puncture, rapierthrust). (various references) sondaj (boring, sound, sounding). (various references) barreno (blast, blast hole, bore). (various references) borrhål (drill-hole). (various references) หลุมลึกที่เจาะลง"ินเพื่อหาน้ำหรือน้ำมัน. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BOREHOLE": boreholes. (additional references) | |
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"BOREHOLE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Barenholz, Berthollet, Bertholt, Boerevolk, borehold, Borrobol, Borsholder, Buenhope, Burnholme, Cotehele, oberhofen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| 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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