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Definition of 'Drill'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) drill
a shaftlike tool with two or more cutting edges for making holes in firm materials, esp. by rotation.

2.  drill
a tool, esp. a hand tool, for holding and operating such a tool.

3.  drill
Mil.

4.  drill
training in formal marching or other precise military or naval movements.

5.  drill
an exercise in such training.

6.  drill
any practice or exercise in marching.

7.  drill
any strict, methodical, repetitive, or mechanical training, instruction, or exercise:
a spelling drill.

8.  drill
the correct or customary manner of proceeding.

9.  drill
a gastropod mollusk, Urosalpinx cinera, that bores holes in bivalves.

10. (v.t.) drill
to pierce or bore a hole in (something); penetrate or excavate with a drill.

11.  drill
to make (a hole) by boring.

12.  drill
to instruct and exercise (military trainees) in formation marching, in the carrying and handling of arms, etc.

13.  drill
to train or rehearse (any group) in formation marching.

14.  drill
to impart (knowledge) by strict discipline or repetition.

15.  drill
to train or rehearse (a person or group) in a subject, discipline, etc., by guided repetition, quizzing, and other techniques.

16. (v.i.) drill
to pierce, bore, or excavate something with or as if with a drill.

17.  drill
to penetrate deeply beneath the ground or the sea floor with specialized machinery to search for deposits or reservoirs of a natural substance:
to drill for oil.

18.  drill
to go through exercise in military or other training.

19. (n.) drill
a small furrow made in the soil in which to sow seeds.

20.  drill
a row of seeds or plants thus sown.

21.  drill
a machine for sowing in rows and for covering the seeds when sown.

22. (v.t.) drill
to sow (seed) in drills.

23.  drill
to sow or plant (soil, a plot of ground, etc.) in drills.

24. (v.i.) drill
to sow seed in drills.

25. (n.) drill
a strong twilled cotton fabric.

26. (n.) drill
a large baboon, Mandrillus leucophaeus, of W Africa, smaller and less brightly colored than the closely related mandrill.

Etymology: (1635–45; of obscure orig.; cf. mandrill)

Definition of 'Drill'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) drill
a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)

2. (noun) drill, Mandrillus leucophaeus
similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored

3. (noun) exercise, practice, drill, practice session, recitation
systematic training by multiple repetitions
"practice makes perfect"

4. (verb) drill
(military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms

5. (verb) bore, drill
make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
"don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall"

6. (verb) drill
train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons

7. (verb) drill, exercise, practice, practise
learn by repetition
"We drilled French verbs every day"; "Pianists practice scales"

8. (verb) drill
teach by repetition

9. (verb) drill
undergo military training or do military exercises

Definition of 'Drill'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) drill
a tool for making holes in sth
an electric drill

2.  drill
a situation in which you practice what to do in an emergency
a fire drill

3.  drill
a repeated exercise that teaches sth
military drills

4. (verb) drill
to make a hole with a drill
to drill a hole in the floor

5.  drill
to train sb by using repeated exercises
a sergeant drilling his soldiers

Definition of 'Drill'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Drill
an instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press

2. (noun) Drill
the act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill

3. (noun) Drill
any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar

4. (noun) Drill
a marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea

5. (noun) Drill
a small trickling stream; a rill

6. (noun) Drill
an implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made

7. (noun) Drill
a light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing

8. (noun) Drill
a row of seed sown in a furrow

9. (noun) Drill
a large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus)

10. (noun) Drill
same as Drilling

11. (verb) Drill
to pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal

12. (verb) Drill
to train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline

13. (verb) Drill
to practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self

14. (verb) Drill
to cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum

15. (verb) Drill
to sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water

16. (verb) Drill
to entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on

17. (verb) Drill
to cause to slip or waste away by degrees

18. (verb) Drill
to trickle

19. (verb) Drill
to sow in drills

Translation of 'Drill'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to make (a hole) with a drill He drilled holes in the wood; to drill for oil.
Afrikaans: boor	Arabic: يَثْقُب	Bulgarian: пробивам
Brazilian: perfurar	Czech: vrtat	German: bohren
Danish: bore	Greek: ανοίγω τρύπα (με τρυπάνι)	Spanish: taladrar, perforar
Estonian: puurima	Farsi: سوراخ کردن	Finnish: porata
French: percer	Hebrew: לִקדוֹח	Hindi: छेद करना
Croatian: probušiti rupu	Hungarian: (ki)fúr	Indonesian: membor
Icelandic: bora	Italian: trapanare, perforare	Japanese: 穴をあける
Korean: (구멍을) 내다	Lithuanian: gręžti	Latvian: urbt
Malay: gerudi	Dutch: boren	Norwegian: bore
Polish: wiercić	Persian: سوراخ کردن	Pashto: سورى كول
Portuguese: perfurar	Romanian: a găuri, a (per)fora	Russian: сверлить; бурить
Slovak: vŕtať	Slovenian: vrtati	Serbian: bušiti
Swedish: borra	Thai: เจาะ	Turkish: delmek, sondaj yapmak
Taiwanese: 鑽孔	Ukrainian: свердлити, бурити	Urdu: برمے سے چھیدنا
Vietnamese: khoan	Chinese: 钻孔
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