Borehole and Shaft

Borehole

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Shaft and borehole are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shaft" instead a noun "Borehole".

Shaft

Shaft noun - A narrow sharply defined line of light radiating from an object.
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Synonyms for Shaft

Borehole and shaft are semantically related. You can use "Borehole" instead a noun "Shaft".

Nearby Word: shafting

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  • Video Game / Tales from the Borderlands Wacky Racing: Bossanova's bandits engage in Chariot Race-like derbies in a circular track around the top of an old Atlas borehole mine shaft, complete with custom built vehicles smashing into each other.
  • Dug Too Deep An Indonesian oil and gas company, PT Lapindo Brantas, in its search for natural gas in East Java, created a "Borehole" (a narrow shaft) into the Earth, digging more then 10,000 meters into the ground (a depth no natural gas has ever been found at before).
    Source: Dug Too Deep
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