borehole
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- noun
- /ˈbɔrˌhoʊl/
- Specialized
- Engineers drilled a new borehole to test the soil for environmental contamination.
- drill a borehole
- borehole imaging
- borehole wall
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Examples
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The air quality readings from the borehole indicated high levels of pollution underground.
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The depth of boreholes in the study area is between 150 m and 200 m.
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And with the construction of this borehole, clean water, for each and every home.
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The borehole has provided itself with a very solid cap, like concrete.
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You're getting a picture of what the core left behind, the open borehole and the rock formation.
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Whatever the cause of the contamination was, the change from borehole to public supply seems to have resolved the problem.
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Each year, the permafrost temperature at this borehole gets measured.
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Fast fluid samplers wait to be lowered into a borehole shortly after assembly in the Core Lab.
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The Germans even drilled boreholes for the Steinkopf community to secure water supplies for the wagon trains.
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The acoustic televiewer creates an image of the topography or roughness of the borehole wall using reflected acoustic waves.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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1.0
An opening in something, often made by people or nature
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2.0
A deep hole or space that holds water
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6.0
A hole made by drilling, often the inside of a pipe or tube
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A deep hole drilled in the ground to get oil, gas, or water
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A hole made with a drill to take samples or put instruments into rock
A small hole made in the ground to take samples or test soil
A hole made by drilling into rock or under the ground using a machine
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Etymology
The word borehole comes from the verb bore, which means 'to make a hole', and hole, which means 'an opening'. So a borehole is simply a narrow hole drilled into the ground for water, oil, or to take samples.