Definitions from Wiktionary (drill)
▸ verb: (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
▸ verb: (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
▸ verb: (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
▸ verb: (intransitive, figurative) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
▸ verb: (transitive) To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power.
▸ verb: (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
▸ verb: (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
▸ verb: (slang) To shoot; to kill.
▸ 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.
▸ noun: The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
▸ noun: An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
▸ noun: A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: (uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
▸ noun: An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
▸ noun: A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
▸ noun: A row of seed sown in a furrow.
▸ verb: (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To protract, lengthen out; fritter away, spend (time) aimlessly.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
▸ 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.
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▸ verb: (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
▸ verb: (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
▸ verb: (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
▸ verb: (intransitive, figurative) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
▸ verb: (transitive) To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power.
▸ verb: (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
▸ verb: (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
▸ verb: (slang) To shoot; to kill.
▸ 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.
▸ noun: The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
▸ noun: An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
▸ noun: A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: (uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
▸ noun: An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
▸ noun: A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
▸ noun: A row of seed sown in a furrow.
▸ verb: (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To protract, lengthen out; fritter away, spend (time) aimlessly.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
▸ 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.
▸ Also see drill
Opposite:
Types:
hand drill,
cordless drill,
hammer drill,
impact driver,
right-angle drill,
rotary hammer drill,
magnet drill,
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