A drill is a power tool that's used for making narrow holes or sometimes for pushing screws into wood or other hard material. The word is also a verb to describe the action a drill performs. For example, a dentist might drill into your tooth if you have a cavity.
To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate;
Noun
(military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms
Noun
systematic training by multiple repetitions; "practice makes perfect"
Noun
similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored
Noun
a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)
Verb
train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons
Verb
undergo military training or do military exercises
Verb
learn by repetition; "We drilled French verbs every day"; "Pianists practice scales"
Verb
teach by repetition
Verb
make a hole 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"
v. t.
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.
v. t.
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.
v. i.
To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's
self.
n.
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.
n.
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.
n.
Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity
and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.
n.
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.
v. t.
To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to
drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.
v. t.
To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in
a row, like a trickling rill of water.
v. t.
To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.
v. t.
To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
v. i.
To trickle.
v. i.
To sow in drills.
n.
A small trickling stream; a rill.
n.
An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes
so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
n.
A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.
n.
A row of seed sown in a furrow.
n.
A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).
n.
Same as Drilling.
Drill
He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers.
Drill
Drill
Drill
See drilled him on to five-fifty.4.
This accident hath drilled away the whole summer.
Drill
Drill
Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills.2.
Drill
Drill
To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate;
To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
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.
To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling;
To trickle.
A small trickling stream; a rill.
A large African baboon (
Same as
Usage Examples
Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates outstanding, well motivated privates.
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Misspelled Formdrill, sdrill, edrill, fdrill, xdrill, cdrill, srill, erill, frill, xrill, crill, dsrill, derill, dfrill, dxrill, dcrill, derill, d4rill, d5rill, dtrill, dfrill, deill, d4ill, d5ill, dtill, dfill, dreill, dr4ill, dr5ill, drtill, drfill, druill, dr8ill, dr9ill, droill, drjill, drkill, drull, dr8ll, dr9ll, droll, drjll, drkll, driull, dri8ll, dri9ll, drioll, drijll, drikll, drikll, drioll, dripll, dri:ll, drikl, driol, dripl, dri:l, drilkl, drilol, drilpl, dril:l, drilkl, drilol, drilpl, dril:l, drilk, drilo, drilp, dril:, drillk, drillo, drillp, drill:.
Other Usage ExamplesThe combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.
Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.