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What (who) is drill - definition

TOOL THAT MAKES HOLES

Drills; Drill press; Drill Press; Drill (tool); Craniotome (tool); Electric drill; Drilling machine; Power drill; Rotary drill; Breast drill; Mill drill; Mill-drill; Drill presses; Cordless drill; Pillar drill; Rotary drilling; Cordless Power Drills; Drill motor; Drilling capacity; Cordless drills; Portable drill; Drill Machine; Radial arm drill press; Geared head drill press; Draft:Cranial Drill; Drll

drill

I. n.

1.

Borer, boring-tool.

2.

Military training, exercise in tactics.

3.

Training, discipline.

4.

Furrow, channel, trench (for planting).

5.

Planting-machine.

II. v. a.

1.

Pierce, perforate, bore.

2.

Exercise in tactics, train in martial exercises.

3.

Instruct, exercise, teach, train.

drill

drill¹

¦ noun

1. a tool or machine with a rotating or reciprocating cutting tip, used for boring holes.

2. training in military exercises.

instruction by means of repeated exercises.

(the drill) informal the correct or recognized procedure.

3. a predatory mollusc that bores into the shells of other molluscs. [Urosalpinx cinerea (oyster drill, America) and other species.]

¦ verb

1. bore (a hole) in something with a drill.

sink a borehole.

2. subject to military training or other intensive instruction.

3. informal (in sport) hit (a shot) hard and in a straight line.

4. (drill down) Computing access data in a lower level of a hierarchically structured database.

Derivatives

driller noun

Origin

C17: from MDu. drillen 'bore, turn in a circle'.

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drill²

¦ noun a machine which makes small furrows, sows seed in them, and then covers the sown seed.

?a small furrow made by a drill.

¦ verb sow with a drill.

Origin

C18: perh. from drill¹.

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drill³

¦ noun a West African baboon with a naked blue or purple rump. [Mandrillus leucophaeus.]

Origin

C17: prob. a local word; cf. mandrill.

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drill⁴

¦ noun a coarse twilled cotton or linen fabric.

Origin

C18: abbrev. of earlier drilling, from Ger. Drillich, from L. trilix 'triple-twilled', from tri- 'three' + licium 'thread'.

drill

I

n.

boring tool

1) to operate, use a drill

2) an electric, power; hand; rotary drill

exercise

3) to conduct a drill

4) (mil.) close-order drill

5) an air-raid; evacuation; fire drill

II

v.

1) (D; intr.) ('to prospect') to drill for (to drill for oil)

2) (D; tr.) ('to train') to drill in (to drill students in pronunciation)

3) (d; tr.) ('to instill') to drill into (to drill discipline into cadets)

Wikipedia

Drill

A drill is a tool used for making round holes or driving fasteners. It is fitted with a bit, either a drill or driverchuck. Hand-operated types are dramatically decreasing in popularity and cordless battery-powered ones proliferating due to increased efficiency and ease of use.

Drills are commonly used in woodworking, metalworking, construction, machine tool fabrication, construction and utility projects. Specially designed versions are made for miniature applications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill

Examples of use of drill

1. "The Bush administration‘s drill, drill, drill philosophy is really upsetting many traditional recreationalists in the West," Richardson said.

2. "The fact is, we have to drill here and we have to drill now and we have to drill immediately," McCain said, repeating a now–common refrain.

3. "My opponent‘s only solution is drill here, drill now," Warner said.

4. But "drill, drill, drill" is not a slogan that can carry McCain through November, given the range of the electorate‘s economic discontents.

5. "We do not believe in the president‘s theory, the Republicans‘ theory: Drill, drill, drill, more of the same," Harry Reid (D–Nev.), the Senate majority leader, taunted.