borehole
borehole noun: a hole bored into the ground to collect samples for analysis or to extract oil or water.
Noun
borehole (plural boreholes)
- A hole bored into the ground to collect samples for analysis or to extract oil or water.
- Near-synonym: well
- The state of the groundwater is monitored at various boreholes in the area.
- Synonyms:
- well
- Any other hole that has been bored into something.
- There were little boreholes in the oak beam, indicating that insects had once taken some interest in it.
- Synonyms:
- bore
Verb
borehole (third-person singular simple present boreholes, present participle boreholing, simple past and past participle boreholed)
- To bore a hole of this kind (in).
borehole meaning in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam
borehole in Tamil
- துளைக்குழி
borehole in Telugu
- borehole
- గొట్టపుబావి goṭṭapubāvi
borehole in Malayalam
- hole bored into the ground
- കുഴൽക്കിണർ kuḻalkkiṇaṟ
Synonyms of borehole
Forms of borehole
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | boreholes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | boreholes |
| present participle | boreholing |
| past participle | boreholed |
| past | boreholed |
Origin of borehole
From bore + hole.
Questions about borehole
- What does borehole mean?
- Borehole means a hole bored into the ground to collect samples for analysis or to extract oil or water.
- What is borehole in Tamil?
- Borehole in Tamil is துளைக்குழி. See Borehole meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is borehole?
- Borehole can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of borehole?
- The plural of borehole is boreholes.
Words near borehole in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: borehole (page history and authors); borehole (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); గొట్టపుబావి (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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