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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
borehole
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 wells will be made.
▪ But although test boreholes were successfully sunk at Altnabreac in Caithness in November 1975, the programme quickly ran into opposition elsewhere.
▪ Geological maps have been digitised together with the lithology and stratigraphy derived from over 1250 boreholes and geophysical logs from over 70 boreholes.
▪ If we drill a borehole into the aquifer the groundwater will be under sufficient pressure to overflow from the borehole.
▪ No gas fields occur in the Bramsche and Vlotho Massifs, although in the past many boreholes have been drilled there.
▪ Resistivity methods have been developed for investigating fracturing in boreholes.
▪ They are large, and hence the chances of recovering complete specimens from all boreholes is relatively low.
▪ Welds split because of continual use, and poorly constructed boreholes let sand and grit into the well water.
Wiktionary
borehole

n. A hole bored into the ground to collect samples for analysis or to extract oil or water.

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Borehole

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 of a geotechnical investigation, environmental site assessment, mineral exploration, temperature measurement, as a pilot hole for installing piers or underground utilities, for geothermal installations, or for underground storage of unwanted substances, e.g. in Carbon capture and storage.

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.