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drill
/dɹɪl/
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What does drill mean?
verb
- To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
- To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
- To cause to drill (practice); to train, especially in military arts.
More meanings (24)
verb
- To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
- (figuratively) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
- To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power.
- To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
- (slang) To shoot; to kill by shooting.
- To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
- To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
- (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
- (obsolete) To protract, lengthen out; fritter away, spend (time) aimlessly.
- (obsolete) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.
- (obsolete) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
noun
- 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.
- The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
- An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
- A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
- 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.
- A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
- A single performance of drill music.
- An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
- A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
- A row of seed sown in a furrow.
- An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
- A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
- (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɹɪl/
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It is squad drill and hazing that so successfully mould the coarser characters who come to West Point into officers and gentlemen.
The LAKEKUT Is a musical drill in which the dancers stamp on the planks of the floor in time to the music.
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The seed drill is already a very useful implement and is rapidly being made to meet the special requirements of the dry-farmer.
This was found to transmit the requisite rotary motion to the drill at the end of the spiral with perfect and faithful efficiency.
For example, if the speed of a drill or the strokes of a punch press were multiplied, the increase would be easily recognized.