drill
Other forms: drilled; drills
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.
A carpenter's drill can be held in one hand, while an oil drill is a large rig that hollows out holes in rock through which oil can flow. To drill is to bore holes in a hard surface, and it's also to teach something by repeating facts over and over: "I hate math, because my teacher just drills multiplication tables." Drill has a Dutch root, drillen, "to bore a hole, turn around, or whirl."
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a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)types:brace and bita drill consisting of a bit and a brace to hold and turn itbreast drilla portable drill with a plate that is pressed against the chest to force the drill point into the workcore drilla drill that removes a cylindrical core from the drill holepower drilla power tool for drilling holes into hard materialsreamera drill that is used to shape or enlarge holestrepana drill for cutting circular holes around a centercross bita rock drill having cruciform cutting edges; used in miningelectric drilla rotating power drill powered by an electric motorpneumatic drilla power drill powered by compressed airstar drilla steel rock drill with a star-shaped point that is used for making holes in stones or masonry; it is operated by hitting the end with a hammer while rotating it between blowstype of:toolan implement used in the practice of a vocation
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systematic training by multiple repetitionssynonyms: exercise, practice, practice session, recitationtypes:fire drillan exercise intended to train people in duties and escape procedures to be followed in case of firemilitary drilltraining in marching and the use of weaponsrehearsal(psychology) a form of practice; repetition of information (silently or aloud) in order to keep it in short-term memorydry run, rehearsala practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert)scrimmage(American football) practice play between a football team's squadsshadowboxingsparring with an imaginary opponent (for exercise or training)target practicepractice in shooting at targetsclose-order drill(military) military drill of troops in standard marching (shoulder-to-shoulder)square-bashingdrill on a barracks squaredress rehearsala full uninterrupted rehearsal in costumes shortly before the first performancerun-throughan uninterrupted rehearsalwalk-througha first perfunctory rehearsal of a theatrical production in which actors read their lines from the script and move as directedrub upa review that refreshes your memorytype of:
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(military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms
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make a hole, especially 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”synonyms: boretypes:spudinitiate drilling operations, as for petroleumcounter-drilldrill in an opposite directiontrepancut a hole with a trepan, as in surgerytype of:cutseparate with or as if with an instrument
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teach by repetition
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learn by repetition
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undergo military training or do military exercises
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train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons
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similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly coloredsynonyms: Mandrillus leucophaeustype of:baboonlarge terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles
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