Definitions
Etymologies
- bore + hole (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A borehole is a small diameter hole drilled from the land surface to collecting soil samples.”
“It would be the first mining project in Minnesota to use something called borehole extraction.”
“A listening device is due to be lowered down a borehole, which is being drilled.”
“This kind of blowout likely was due to forces at work down in the borehole, meaning that the problem was thousands of feet below the surface of the ocean, where one would not even know a hurricane was present.”
“Indirect indicators, such as borehole temperatures and glacier shrinkage, provide independent support for the observed warming.”
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“Indirect indicators of warming such as borehole temperatures, snow cover, and glacier recession data, are in substantial agreement with the more direct indicators of recent warmth.”
“Incidentally, an analogy with ice cores comes up here, once the borehole is drilled, it is open to air and water circulation from the surface, these must surely introduce more variability in the walls of the borehole which is where you measure the temperature!”
“A borehole is a deep and narrow shaft in the ground used for abstraction of fluid or gas reserves below the earth’s surface.”
“My only worry is that we have only one borehole which is the only source of water in our village.”
“In fact this year we have got an allocation of one borehole which is supposed to be put in Olusai village.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘borehole’.
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Coal Mining Terms
Coal mining has engendered fascinating subcultures in industry, labor, music, folklore, environment and energy. It has a rich vocabulary as well, and I've encountered some gorgeous mining words. I...
firedamp, scrip, bituminous, anthracite, company store, blackdamp, brattice, bug dust, tipple, whitedamp, float dust, fly ash and 136 more...
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Hydrocarbon Energy Exploration/Extrac...
A list of terms encountered in the jargon of hydrocarbon exploration, mapping, and extraction.
hydrofracking, hydraulic fracturing, drilling, borehole, rig, formation, shale, coal, marl, seismic, horizontal drilling, unconventional ga... and 77 more...
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words/phrases I wish I could find mor...
puttin' on the dog, smarty, smarty ha..., murgatroyd, treshstra, puissance, corpuscle, socker kaka, peckish, hullabaloo, salvo, holy guacamole, b..., cascade and 112 more...
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Zamboni Palin
My imaginary lexicon for future megastar and visionary Zamboni Palin.
strewth, curple, speshly, ugly tree, whupping, nar'n, swain, sneezeweed, sciencey, snarleyyow, jackpudding, squanch and 304 more...
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Holes
judas, judas-hole, hole, creephole, pinhole, spy-eye, blowhole, breathing-hole, spiracle, touchhole, mouth, cakehole and 166 more...
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Geology Words
The descriptive science described.
earth, lithosphere, mineral, convection, heat flow, ore, deep time, fossil, formation, rock, tectonics, extinction and 281 more...
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Environmental Words
Words dealing with environmental science, climate change, and the like.
co2e, cde, hypermiling, microdiesel, carbon footprint, feed-in tariff, sox, nox, oxyfuel, polygeneration, mw, egr and 93 more...
Tweets
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dontcry HA! This is right up there with padded face hole.
"Shut yer borehole, Fred. Yer puttin' everyone ta sleep." Apr 21, 2009
frindley This makes me think of the term "organ bore", which seems to me to have a double meaning… (one of which should only be used with the utmost affection and indulgence). Apr 21, 2009
bilby lolz! Apr 21, 2009
Prolagus I could've made a dozen today, then. *Yawns* Apr 21, 2009
ecbrenner "A hole made by boring." --Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary Apr 21, 2009