Well (disambiguation)

A well is an artificial excavation, hole or structure for the purpose of withdrawing an underground resource, usually water

Well may also refer to:

Structures

Used for resource extraction

• Castle well, providing a protected source of drinking water
• Oil well, a hole drilled through the Earth's surface for the purpose of extracting petroleum oil
• Salt well, or brine well, used to mine salt
• Well drainage of agricultural land by pumped wells

Other structures

• Air well (condenser), a structure or device designed to promote the condensation of atmospheric moisture
• Clootie well, a place of pilgrimage in Celtic areas
• Holy well, often pagan sacred sites that were later Christianized
• Jacob's Well, of religious significance in the West Bank
• Lightwell, in architecture, an unroofed space designed to allow sunlight to reach interior areas
• Wishing well, a term from European folklore

Places

• Well, Hampshire, England
• Well, Lincolnshire, a village in England
• Well, North Yorkshire, a village in England
• Well, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Well, Limburg, a village in the Netherlands
• Well (Chinese constellation)

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

• Well..., 1994 album by Katey Sagal
• ...Well?, 1991 album by Swell
• "Well", song by Little Richard from his 1967 album The Explosive Little Richard
• "Well", song by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band from their 1969 album Trout Mask Replica
• "Well", song by The Olympics

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Well (play), 2004 play by Lisa Kron
• Well (film), 2016 Hungarian film

Science and technology

• Well, the condition of having a high level of well-being
• Well, good health
• Gravity well or gravitational, a conceptual model of the gravitational field surrounding a body in space
• Potential well, a concept used in physics related to kinetic energy
• Quantum well, a potential well with only discrete energy values
• Well, a microtiter plate, used in chemistry and biochemistry

Other uses

• "Well,..." a catchphrase often used by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan
• Well drink, an alcoholic beverage made with liquor from a bartender's well
• Well Pharmacy, a British pharmacy chain
• The WELL, originally Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, a virtual community
• "The Well", a nickname for the Scottish football team Motherwell F.C.
• The well of the court, part of the courtroom in some countries

See also

• The Well (disambiguation)
• Wellness (disambiguation)
• WELL (disambiguation)
• Wells (disambiguation)