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TEST BORING

Specialty Definition: TEST BORING

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Geography

Method of driving probe into soil or rock and of measuring resistance to ramming down or torsion in order to estimate the position and thickness of soil layers, the relative strength and composition of soil, and also brittleness and quality of rock. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

As used by foundation engineers, the act or process of sinking holes into the overburden (sometimes to considerable depth into bedrock) with rotary or drive sampling equipment for the purpose of recovering samples from which information on the physical characteristics of the materials penetrated can be obtained; also applied to the sample or samples soobtained. Syn:borehole; drill hole; drilling. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: TEST BORING

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Stop nuclear test boring : fight back : let's bore Westminster. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Modern Translation: TEST BORING

Language Translations for "TEST BORING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

sondering (boring, exploring drilling, probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding), boring (bore, boring, conduit, drilled well, probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding), boreprofil (boring, probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

sondering (boring, probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding), grondboring (boring, probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

puikotus (boring, probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding), koekairaus (boring, probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding). (various references)

   

French

  

sondage. (various references)

   

German

  

Sondierung (exploration, probing), Pellen (Peel, skin), Bohren (bore, boring, drill, drive, gnaw, keep on, pick, sink). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βυθομέτρηση (sounding), ανιχνευτική γεώτρηση (boring, probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sondaggio (poll, probing, sounding, survey), scandaglio (fathoming, plumb line, sounding). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

esttay oringbay

   

Portuguese

  

sondagem (pump). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sondeo (canvass, feeler, overture, probe, probing, reconnaissance, sounding), sonda (blowpipe, bore, catheter, lead, pathfinder, Plumb, plummet, probang, probe, searcher, sound). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sondering (boring, observation, ozone observation, ozone sounding, probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TEST BORING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-g-i-n-o-r-s-t-t"

-1 letter: besotting, obtesting.

-2 letters: bitterns, bornites, genitors, gitterns, snottier, sobering, tenorist, tritones.

-3 letters: besting, betting, bettors, bingers, biogens, bistort, bittern, bitters, boniest, borings, bornite, egotist, eringos, genitor, gittern, goiters, goitres, goriest, ignores, intorts, norites, oestrin, orbiest, orients, regions, resting, retints, retting, rotting, setting, signore, sorbent, sorbing, sorting, stentor, stinger, stinter, stonier, storing, testing, tinters.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-g-i-n-o-r-s-t-t"
 

+3 letters: letterboxings.

 

+5 letters: overabstracting, troubleshooting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Images: Photo Album
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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