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Words Described by "Drill"

  1. down
  2. sergeant
  3. holes
  4. hole
  5. press
  6. bit
  7. cantos
  8. book
  9. bits
  10. stem

What Google Knows

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

Related Definition

  1. drill:

    v (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).

    v (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.

    v (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.

    v (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.

    v (intransitive, figuratively) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level

    v (transitive) To hit or kick with a lot of power.

    v (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.

    v (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.

    v (slang) To shoot; to kill.

    n A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.

    n The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.

    n An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.

    n A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.

    n Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that drill holes in the shells of other animals.

    n (uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.

    n An agricultural 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, when sowing.

    n A row of seed sown in a furrow.

    v (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.

    n (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.

    v (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.

    v (transitive, obsolete) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.

    v (transitive, obsolete) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.

    n An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.

    n A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.


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