Definitions for drill
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Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. drillnoun

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

2. drill, Mandrillus leucophaeusnoun

   similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored

3. exercise, practice, drill, practice session, recitationnoun

   systematic training by multiple repetitions

   "practice makes perfect"

4. drillverb

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

5. bore, drillverb

   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. drillverb

   train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons

7. drill, exercise, practice, practiseverb

   learn by repetition

   "We drilled French verbs every day"; "Pianists practice scales"

8. drillverb

   teach by repetition

9. drillverb

   undergo military training or do military exercises

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Drillnoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. An instrument with which holes are bored. It is pressed hard against the thing bored, and turned round with a bow and string.

   The way of tempering steel to make gravers, drills, and mechanical instruments, we have taught artificers. Boyle.

   Drills are used for the making such holes as punches will not conveniently serve for; as a piece of work that hath already its shape, and must have an hole or more made in it. Joseph Moxon, Mech. Exer.

   2. An ape; a baboon.

   Shall the difference of hair be a mark of a different internal specifick constitution between a changeling and a drill, when they agree in shape and want of reason? John Locke.

   3. A small dribbling brook. This I have found no where else, and suspect it should be rill.

   Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills,
   Which snake-like glide between the bordering hills. George Sandys.

2. To DRILLverb

   Etymology: drillen, Dutch; þirlian, Saxon, from þurgh, through.

   1. To pierce any thing with a drill.

   The drill-plate is only a piece of flat iron, fixed upon a flat board, which iron hath an hole punched a little way into it, to set the blunt end of the shank of the drill in, when you drill a hole. Joseph Moxon, Mech. Exer.

   2. To perforate; to bore; to pierce.

   My body through and through he drill’d,
   And Whacum by my side lay kill’d. Hudibras, p. ii. can. 3.

   Tell, what could drill and perforate the poles,
   And to th’ attractive rays adapt their holes? Richard Blackmore, Creat.

   3. To make a hole.

   When a hole is drilled in a piece of metal, they hold the drill-bone in their right hand; but when they turn small work they hold the drill-bone in their left hand. Joseph Moxon, Mech. Ex.

   4. To delay; to put off: in low phrase.

   She has bubbled him out of his youth; she drilled him on to five and fifty, and she will drop him in his old age. Addison.

   5. To draw from step to step. A low phrase.

   When by such insinuations they have once got within him, and are able to drill him on from one lewdness to another, by the same arts they corrupt and squeeze him. Robert South, Sermons.

   6. To drain; to draw slowly. This sense wants better authority.

   Drill’d through the sandy stratum every way,
   The waters with the sandy stratum rise. James Thomson, Autumn.

   7. To range troops. An old cant word.

   The foe appear’d drawn up and drill’d,
   Ready to charge them in the field. Hudibras, p. i. cant. 3.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Drillverb

   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

2. Drillverb

   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

3. Drillverb

   to practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self

4. Drillnoun

   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

5. Drillnoun

   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

6. Drillnoun

   any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar

7. Drillnoun

   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

8. Drillverb

   to cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum

9. Drillverb

   to sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water

10. Drillverb

    to entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on

11. Drillverb

    to cause to slip or waste away by degrees

12. Drillverb

    to trickle

13. Drillverb

    to sow in drills

14. Drillnoun

    a small trickling stream; a rill

15. Drillnoun

    an implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made

16. Drillnoun

    a light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing

17. Drillnoun

    a row of seed sown in a furrow

18. Drillnoun

    a large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus)

19. Drillnoun

    same as Drilling

20. Etymology: [Usually in pl.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Drill

   A drill is a tool fitted with a cutting tool attachment or driving tool attachment, usually a drill bit or driver bit, used for drilling holes in various materials or fastening various materials together with the use of fasteners. The attachment is gripped by a chuck at one end of the drill and rotated while pressed against the target material. The tip, and sometimes edges, of the cutting tool does the work of cutting into the target material. This may be slicing off thin shavings, grinding off small particles, crushing and removing pieces of the workpiece, countersinking, counterboring, or other operations. Drills are commonly used in woodworking, metalworking, construction and do-it-yourself projects. Specially designed drills are also used in medicine, space missions and other applications. Drills are available with a wide variety of performance characteristics, such as power and capacity.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Drill

   dril, v.t. to bore, pierce: to make with a drill: to exercise soldiers, pupils, &c.—to sow seeds, &c., in rows.—n. an instrument for boring stone, metal, teeth, or hard substances (not wood), actuated by a kind of bow, by a brace, or otherwise: a large boring instrument used in mining: a ridge with seed or growing plants on it (turnips, potatoes, &c.): the plants in such a row: the machine for sowing the seed in drill-husbandry.—ns. Drill′-bar′row, a grain-drill driven by hand; Drill′-har′row, a harrow for working between drills; Drill′-hus′bandry, the method of sowing seed in drills or rows; Drill′ing-machine′, Drill′ing-lathe, Drill′-press, machines for boring with a drill or drills; Drill′-mas′ter, one who teaches drill, one who trains in anything, esp. in a mechanical manner; Drill′-plough, a plough for sowing grain in drills; Drill′-ser′geant, a sergeant who drills soldiers. [Prob. borrowed from Dut. drillen, to bore; dril, drille, a borer.]

2. Drill

   dril, n. a species of baboon found in Western Africa, resembling the mandrill, but smaller. [A contr. of mandrill.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. drill

   Systematized instruction in the practice of all military exercises.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. drill

   Is a general name for the exercises through which soldiers and sailors are passed, to qualify them for their duties. There are many varieties of drill,—that of the cavalry, infantry, and artillery,—all have different drills conformable to their different organizations.

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   • Tool
   • Train

British National Corpus

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   Rank popularity for the word 'drill' in Nouns Frequency: #2925

2. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'drill' in Verbs Frequency: #1062

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of drill in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of drill in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of drill in a Sentence

1. Ineke van Gent:

   We are very concerned that the gas drilling will damage the area, we also believe that there is no need to drill [ for ] new gas at all and that we should invest much more in renewable energy.

2. Kate Andersen Brower:

   I think [ Be Best ] is well-intentioned, and it showcases how well the first lady does when she interacts with children, but I think it's too broad and unfocused, if President Trump could drill down on one part of it, like opioid addiction and babies born to mothers who are addicted, it would be more successful. Being single-mindedly focused would also serve to help people see President Trump contributions to this administration, which I think get lost amid the turbulence.

3. Halvor Molland:

   Even if we have a fire drill and we use diesel to set a small fire we have to calculate the amounts, these are chemical reactions so we know that if you set fire to one liter of diesel you know how much carbon will come out.

4. Talia Pan:

   Because of (a) drinking water shortage in the southwestern coastal area in the 1960s, (residents) had to drill deep wells to get drinking water. Because of arsenic in the water, there were cases of Blackfoot disease ... (which if) severe, the only option to save a life is to amputate both legs, because of this, a lot of women lost the opportunity to walk into marriage, walk into a new life chapter on high-heeled shoes ... Because of that history, we hope to create a place in Chiayi County, where people can get married, invoking the fairy tale of Cinderella.

5. Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy:

   The withdrawal in Afghanistan looked like a ferret fire drill!

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