DRILL
\dɹˈɪl], \dɹˈɪl], \d_ɹ_ˈɪ_l]\
Definitions of DRILL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a rotating power drill powered by an electric motor
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undergo military training or do military exercises
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teach by repetition
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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 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"
By Princeton University
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a rotating power drill powered by an electric motor
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undergo military training or do military exercises
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teach by repetition
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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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.
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To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
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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.
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Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.
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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.
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To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.
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To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.
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To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
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To trickle.
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To sow in drills.
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A small trickling stream; a rill.
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An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
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A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.
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A row of seed sown in a furrow.
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A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).
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Same as Drilling.
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To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; - with on.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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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.
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To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
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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.
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Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.
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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.
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To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.
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To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.
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To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
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To trickle.
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To sow in drills.
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A small trickling stream; a rill.
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An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
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A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.
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A row of seed sown in a furrow.
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A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).
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Same as Drilling.
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To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; - with on.
By Noah Webster.
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A genus of the subfamily CERCOPITHECINAE, family CERCOPITHECIDAE, consisting of seven named species: P. ursinus (chacma baboon), P. cynocephalus (yellow baboon), P. papio (western or Guinea baboon), P. anubis (anubis or olive baboon), P. hamadryas (hamadryas or sacred baboon), P. sphinx (mandrill), and P. leucophaeus (drill). Some authors have recognized a separate genus for the drill and mandrill: Mandrillus. The Papio genus is geographically distributed throughout east and west Africa, Arabia, Egypt, and the Sudan.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To pierce with a boring tool; bore; instruct thoroughly; train; sow in lines or rows.
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To engage in military exercises.
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A tool for boring or making holes in a hard substance; a machine for sowing seeds in rows; military exercise; thorough instruction, especially by means of frequent repetition.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To pierce through with a revolving borer (this implies tremor, and connects DRILL with THRILL).
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An instrument that bores.
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To exercise, e.g. soldiers or pupils.
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The exercising of soldiers.
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A row or furrow to put seed into in sowing.
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To sow in rows.
By Daniel Lyons
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A tool for boring; military exercise; small furrows for seed.
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To bore; exercise, as soldiers, or thoroughly; sow in drills.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To plant in drills.
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A boring - tool for metal.
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A machine for planting seeds in rows; a row so planted.
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Military training.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. A pointed steel instrument, used for boring holes, particularly in metals and other hard substances; a drill-press;—an implement, for making holes for sowing seed;—a light furrow of channel made to put soldiers in the military art ; instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business.
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