"borehole" meaning in English

See borehole in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-borehole.wav [US] Forms: boreholes [plural]
Etymology: bore + hole Etymology templates: {{compound|en|bore|hole}} bore + hole Head templates: {{en-noun}} borehole (plural boreholes)
  1. A hole bored into the ground to collect samples for analysis or to extract oil or water. Translations (hole bored into the ground): свідраві́на (svidravína) [feminine] (Belarusian), puurauk (Estonian), porausreikä (Finnish), дупнатина (dupnatina) [feminine] (Macedonian), കുഴൽക്കിണർ (kuḻalkkiṇaṟ) (Malayalam), otwór wiertniczy [masculine] (Polish), сква́жина (skvážina) [feminine] (Russian), бурова́я сква́жина (burovája skvážina) [feminine] (Russian), borrhål [neuter] (Swedish), свердлови́на (sverdlovýna) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-borehole-en-noun-eUMJD7uE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 67 33

Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-borehole.wav [US] Forms: boreholes [present, singular, third-person], boreholing [participle, present], boreholed [participle, past], boreholed [past]
Etymology: bore + hole Etymology templates: {{compound|en|bore|hole}} bore + hole Head templates: {{en-verb}} borehole (third-person singular simple present boreholes, present participle boreholing, simple past and past participle boreholed)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To bore a hole of this kind (in). Tags: intransitive, transitive
    Sense id: en-borehole-en-verb-TvThQ4Mg

Inflected forms

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