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drill definition
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This page has 28 definitions of drill with English translations in 4 languages. Drill is a verb and noun. Examples of how to use drill in a sentence are shown. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .
English drill definition
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch drillen (“bore, move in a circle”).
Verb
drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)
- (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
- Synonyms: excavate, bore, gouge; see also Thesaurus:make a hole
- Drill a small hole to start the screw in the right direction.
- (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
- They drilled daily to learn the routine exactly.
- 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in the Guardian[1]:
- On his return the team that faced Hull City had been reconfigured. Moses wasn’t overly drilled, just told he would be playing right wing-back, that Conte had seen enough to know.
- (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
- The sergeant was up by 6:00 every morning, drilling his troops.
- 1859, Thomas Macaulay, Life of Frederick the Great
- He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers.
- (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
- The instructor drilled into us the importance of reading the instructions.
- (intransitive) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
- Drill deeper and you may find the underlying assumptions faulty.
- (transitive) To hit or kick with a lot of power.
- 2006, Coon, Joe, The Perfect Game:
- He did get their attention when he drilled the ball dead center into the hole for an opening birdie.
- 2007, Cowell, Craig, Muddy Sunday:
- Without compromising he drilled the ball home, leaving Dynamos' ill-fated keeper diving for fresh air.
- 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC[2]:
- Bolton were then just inches from taking the lead, but the dangerous-looking Taylor drilled just wide after picking up a loose ball following Jose Bosingwa's poor attempted clearance.
- (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
- (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
- Synonyms: plow, poke, root, shaft; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- 2010, MasseMord (lyrics and music), “Masshealing Masskilling”:
- Everytime when I rape your daughter. Your beautiful faces expressing how it hurts. Always while I drill her c*nt. I want to see you dead.
- 2012, SwizZz (lyrics and music), “Flu Shot”:
- Guess I'll be drilling her butt
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Noun
drill (plural drills)
- A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
- Wear safety glasses when operating an electric drill.
- The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
- Use a drill with a wire brush to remove any rust or buildup.
- An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Regular fire drills can ensure that everyone knows how to exit safely in an emergency.
- Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills.
- Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that drill holes in the shells of other animals.
- (uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:drill.
Derived terms
- Brooklyn drill
- dental drill
- dentist's drill
- drill bow
- drill sergeant
- hand drill
- Irish drill
- New York drill
- UK drill
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Etymology 2
Perhaps the same as Etymology 3; compare German Rille which can also mean "small furrow".
Noun
drill (plural drills)
- An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
- 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
- I found down at the side of the house the remains of what must have once been a kitchen garden. Everything was choked with weeds and scutch grass, but the outlines of bed and drill were still there.
- A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
- A row of seed sown in a furrow.
Derived terms
- drill barrow
- drill harrow
- drill plough, drill plow
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Verb
drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)
- (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
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Etymology 3
Uncertain. Compare the same sense of trill, and German trillen, drillen. Attestation predates Etymology 1.
Noun
drill (plural drills)
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Verb
drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)
- (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
- 1615, George Sandys, “(please specify the page)”, in The Relation of a Journey Begun An. Dom. 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, OCLC 25923553:
- Now it is a great square profunditie ; greene , and uneven at the bottome : into which a barren spring doch drill from betweene the stones of the North - ward wall
- waters drilled through a sandy stratum
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Etymology 4
From Middle English drillen, origin unknown.
Verb
drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)
- (transitive, obsolete) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.
- 1711 June 12, Addison, Joseph, The Spectator, number 89; republished in The Works of Joseph Addison, volume 1, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1842, page 142:
- He tells me with great passion that she has bubbled him out of his youth; that she drilled him on to five and fifty [years old], and that he verily believes she will drop him in his old age, if she can find her account in another.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
- August 28, 1731, letter by Jonathan Swift to John Gay and Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry
- This cursed accident hath drilled away the whole summer.
- August 28, 1731, letter by Jonathan Swift to John Gay and Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry
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Etymology 5
Probably of African origin; compare mandrill.
Noun
drill (plural drills)
- An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
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Further reading
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Mandrillus leucophaeus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia -
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Etymology 6
From German Drillich (“denim, canvas, drill”).
Noun
drill (countable and uncountable, plural drills)
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French drill definition
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
drill m (plural drills)
- drill (tool)
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Further reading
- “drill”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German drill definition
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drill
Norwegian Bokmål drill definition
Verb
drill
- imperative of drille
Westrobothnian drill definition
Etymology
From Middle Low German drein (“bore, turn in a circle”).
Verb
drill (preterite drillä)
- (transitive) twist, turn