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Bore or Bores often refer to:
Relating to holes
- Boring (manufacturing), a machining process that enlarges a hole
- Bore (engine), the diameter of a cylinder in a piston engine or a steam locomotive
- Bore (wind instruments), the interior chamber of a wind instrument
- Gauge (firearms), the inner diameter of the barrel of a firearm
- Nominal bore, a pipe size standard
- Water well, known as a bore in Australia
Places
- Bore (woreda), a district of Ethiopia that includes the town of Bore
- Bore, Emilia-Romagna, a commune in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- Boré, Mali, a village in Dangol Boré commune in the Mopti Region of Mali
- Bore, Norway, a small village in Klepp municipality in Rogaland county, Norway
- Bore Track, a track in the South Australian outback
- Bore Valley, South Georgia, Antarctica
People
- Bore (surname)
- Francisco Bores (1898–1972), Spanish artist
Maritime shipping
- Steamship Company Bore, a Finnish company that operated for a time within Silja Line
Other uses
- Bore War, a contemporary name for the Phoney War (1939–1940), an early phase of World War II
- Tidal bore, a type of tidal wave
- Undular bore, an atmospheric wave disturbance