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| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Stop nuclear test boring : fight back : let's bore Westminster. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| 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 sondagem (pump). (various references) sondeo (canvass, feeler, overture, probe, probing, reconnaissance, sounding), sonda (blowpipe, bore, catheter, lead, pathfinder, Plumb, plummet, probang, probe, searcher, sound). (various references) sondering (boring, observation, ozone observation, ozone sounding, probing, prospecting by borings or trial pits, sounding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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| 1. Images: Photo Album 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Bibliography |
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