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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB drill ▪ If we drill a borehole into the aquifer the groundwater will be under sufficient pressure to overflow from the borehole. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An inventory of boreholes is to be compiled and a survey of dug ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A hole bored into the ground to collect samples for analysis or to extract oil or water.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A borehole is a narrow shaft bored in the ground, either vertically or horizontally. A borehole may be constructed for many different purposes, including the extraction of water , other liquids (such as petroleum ) or gases (such as natural gas ), as part ...
Usage examples of borehole.
Americans will drive down the ice-choked ramparts of Chasma Boreale and take samples from their boreholes.
He tells Mariella that he wants to change the plan, go straight to the borehole the Chinese expedition has already drilled and left behind.
She can make rough estimates of some of these from analyses of the Martian water, but it was almost certainly contaminated when the borehole was drilled, and change in one variable can easily affect others.
Martian water, but it was almost certainly contaminated when the borehole was drilled, and change in one variable can easily affect others.
A dozen moles would be dropped down defunct oil boreholes to begin the construction of an interconnected network, spreading out through hydrate strata, chattering to each other through sonar and other comms channels, and closing the complex loops around which the liquid nitrogen would flow.
And it seems that every scientist on Earth wants to know what was found at the Chinese borehole, and whether it can provide clues to how the slicks can be destroyed.
Hayward could hear Miller directing other officers to drop their canisters down the boreholes that dotted the floor of the tunnel.
The narrow boreholes of explosive drills lined the walls like the work of disorderly termites.
After the formation of the chambers, materials necessary for atmosphere would have been pumped into Psyche through the boreholes while motors increased her natural spin to create artificial gravity inside.
The main computer and the systems board indicated the transport system through the boreholes was no longer operative.
The one I think more highly of is to get in line-of-sight of your boreholes and relay the proper coded signals to the charges in your interior.
The particle shock waves streamed out through the boreholes, now pressure release valves, and formed a long neck and tail of flame and ionized particles that grew steadily for a thousand kilometers, then faded.
He would not, however, deprive Shadrach of an opportunity to show off his bargaining skill, nor insult him by trying to hasten the proceedings, so these were extended over the next two days while Craig reroofed the old guest cottage with a sheet of heavy canvas, replaced the looted pump with a Lister diesel to raise water from the borehole and set up his new camp-bed in the bare bedroom of the cottage.
Satisfied the only life within his immediate area was a red diamondback rattler sunning itself on a rock and a black tailed jackrabbit that hopped up to him, took one look, and leaped away, he rose from his lawn chair and ambled down the slope of the borehole to the pool.
The girls' musical graftings shone: cobalt boreholes in their spines, glinting stops and keys made of brass and ivory that ran along their fluted frames and contained a hundred possible instruments within the structure of their bodies.