drill

Meaning

Verb

1. To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
2. To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
3. To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
4. To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
5. To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
6. To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power.
7. To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
8. (slang) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
9. (slang) To shoot; to kill.

Noun

1. A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
2. The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
3. An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
4. A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
5. Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx and others, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that make holes in the shells of their prey.
6. A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.

Noun

1. An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
2. A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
3. A row of seed sown in a furrow.

Noun

A small trickling stream; a rill.

Noun

An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.

Noun

A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.

Synonyms

bore

exercise

practice

train

🚋

training

auger

pierce

practise

perforate

shackle

gimlet

thrust propeller

thruster machinery compartment

televisor

winch

bow

🙇

thruster

maneuvering device

saw

🪚

propeller

rudder

coach

awl

punch

👊

borer

bit

rehearse

puncture

rehearsal

discipline

penetrate

perforator

educate

tap

teach

instruct

drilling

culture

review

wimble

prepare

excavate

prick

seeder

tutor

lance

exercises

broach

bore a hole

bur

strike

driller

instill

trephine

work out

make a hole

practice session

guide

march

ream

recitation

augur

Mandrillus leucophaeus

parade

sink

pick

⛏️

dig

school

🏫

scoop

screw

scrimmage

shunt

spear

spin

stake

stave

stick

sting

stope

stuff

successive

tailspin

temper

test

thrust

traineeship

transact

trepan

wear

wield

workout

bitstock

drill bit

drilling rig

pierce through

stave in

military exercise

be true to

education

terebrate

be in constant drill

be well-trained

march in formation

drawbore

lanch

immediate reaction drill

immediate action drill

auger bit

straight bit

paper tape punch

drill head

drilling string

oil-drilling rig

drillship

excercise oneself

try to to cultivate

subula

drill points

stop drill

solid borer

holodeck

accustom

dental drilling machine

activity

baboon

beat in

bodkin

bone

🦴

boring machine

brace and bit

break in

break through

burr

chisel

condition

continuous

cut

dance

💃

delve

develop

din

distributor

enter

example

exert

fid

forge

furrow

gouge out

grooming

ground

handshaking

hit

hollow

impale

inculcate

jab

keypunch

lesson

line up

military training

mine

nail

nurture

oil rig

open

physical exercise

physical exercises

piercer

planter

plow

plug

ply

poke

preparation

pricker

probe

prong

prospect

puncher

pursue

put on

quarry

riddle

rig

rip

riveter

root

run-through

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɹɪl/

Etymology

From Middle Dutch drillen (“bore, move in a circle”).

Sentences

The invention of the seed drill dramatically improved germination .