Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large monkey (Mandrillus leucophaeus) of west-central African forests, having an olive brown body and a brightly colored face and resembling the mandrill.
- noun An implement with cutting edges or a pointed end for boring holes in hard materials, usually by a rotating abrasion or repeated blows; a bit.
- noun The hand-operated or hand-powered holder for this implement.
- noun A loud, harsh noise made by or as if by a powered tool of this kind.
- noun Disciplined, repetitious exercise as a means of teaching and perfecting a skill or procedure.
- noun A task or exercise for teaching a skill or procedure by repetition.
- noun The training of soldiers in marching and the manual of arms.
- noun Any of various marine gastropod mollusks, chiefly of the genus Urosalpinx, that bore holes into the shells of bivalve mollusks. U. cinera is destructive to oysters.
- intransitive verb To make a hole in (a hard material) with a drill.
- intransitive verb To make (a hole) with or as if with a drill.
- intransitive verb To strike or hit sharply.
- intransitive verb To instruct thoroughly by repetition in a skill or procedure.
- intransitive verb To infuse knowledge of or skill in by repetitious instruction: synonym: teach.
- intransitive verb To train (soldiers) in marching and the manual of arms.
- intransitive verb To make a hole with or as if with a drill.
- intransitive verb To perform a training exercise.
- noun Durable cotton or linen twill of varying weights, generally used for work clothes.
- noun A shallow trench or furrow in which seeds are planted.
- noun A row of planted seeds.
- noun A machine or implement for planting seeds in holes or furrows.
- transitive verb To sow (seeds) in rows.
- transitive verb To plant (a field) in drills.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To trill; trickle; flow gently.
- To drain; draw off in drains or streams: as, water drilled through a boggy soil.
- noun A trade-name for drilling: often used in the plural.
- noun A sip, as of water.
- noun A rill.
- noun An apparatus used with a boring-tool which cuts on its end and is fed into the hole by a gimlet point, or with a tool such as is ordinarily turned by hand.
- To pierce or make a hole in with a drill or a similar tool, or as if with a drill.
- To make with a drill: as, to
drill a hole. - 3 To wear away or waste slowly.
- To instruct and exercise in military tactics and the use of arms; hence, to train in anything with the practical thoroughness characteristic of military training.
- On American railroads, to shift (cars or locomotives) about, or run them back and forth, at a terminus or station, in order to get them into the desired position.
- 6 To draw on; entice; decoy.
- [⟨ drill, n., 4.] In agri.: To sow in rows, drills, or channels: as, to
drill wheat. - To sow with seed in drills: as, the field was drilled, not sown broadcast.
- To go through exercises in military tactics.
- To sow seed in drills.
- noun In zoology, a baboon.
- noun Specifically, Mormon or Cynocephalus leucophæus, a baboon of western Africa, closely related to the mandrill, but smaller, with a black visage, and a stumpy erect tail scarcely two inches long.
- noun A tool for boring holes in metal, stone, or other hard substance; specifically, a steel cutting-tool fixed to a drill-stock, bow-lathe, or drilling-machine. See cuts under bow-drill, brace-drill, and cramp-drill.
- noun In mining, a borer: the more common term in the United States.
- noun In agriculture, a machine for planting seeds, as of grasses, wheat, oats, corn, etc., by dropping them in rows and covering them with earth.
- noun A row of seeds deposited in the earth.
- noun The trench or channel in which the seeds are deposited.
- noun A shell-fish which is destructive to oyster-beds by boring into the shells of young oysters.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Simran Sethi: Congress Weans Us Off the Teat of Foreign Oil with Concessions to Offshore Drilling
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Today when they finished drilling this large hole the first thing they did was they actually started banging on that -- what they call a drill steel that goes all the way down there.
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Today when they finished drilling this large hole the first thing they did was they actually started banging on that -- what they call a drill steel that goes all the way down there.
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Moynihan is against what she calls the drill and kill'' approach, and thinks math should count as fun.
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Sarah Palin, the woman who made the phrase "drill, baby, drill" popular, does the same thing in
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"Drill, baby, drill" is the only energy solution for McCain and Palin; for the Democrats, it is a stop gap measure on the way to a long term solution.
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What about the song "Drill, baby, drill" is that going out the window also?
hernesheir commented on the word drill
To drill a man on, to decoy or flatter a man into any thing; also to amuse with delays. --old term from the south of England cited in Grose's A Provincial Dictionary, 1787.
You get the drill.
May 5, 2011