drill

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
2. (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
3. (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
4. (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
5. (figuratively, intransitive) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
6. (transitive) 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, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
9. (slang) To shoot; to kill by shooting.

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. (uncountable) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
7. (countable) A single performance of drill music.

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

winch

shackle

thrust propeller

thruster machinery compartment

maneuvering device

bow

🙇

saw

🪚

gimlet

propeller

thruster

televisor

rudder

coach

punch

👊

awl

borer

bit

rehearse

rehearsal

puncture

discipline

perforator

penetrate

tap

review

teach

culture

wimble

educate

drilling

instruct

seeder

prick

prepare

excavate

tutor

broach

lance

exercises

sink

strike

Translations

bohren

perceuse

Bohrer

forer

trapano

perforar

perfurar

furar

boren

Drill

percer

horadar

exercice

perforar

trapanare

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɹɪl/

Etymology

Cognate with German: trillen

In summary

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

Sentences

The invention of the seed drill dramatically improved germination .