Drill

Verb

 * 1)  To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill [tool].
 * 2)  To practice, especially in a military context.
 * 3)  To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
 * 4)  To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
 * 5)  To cause one's subordinates to drill [practice].
 * 6)  To hit or kick with a lot of power.

Noun



 * 1) A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
 * 2) The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit
 * 3) An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise)
 * 4) Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx, that drill holes in the shells of other animals
 * 5) An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
 * 6) A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.

Adjectives for Drill
arduous; painful; sword; emergency; stiff; dusty; grammatical.

Verbs for Drill
(instrument) attach—; man—; power—; sharpen—; sink—; yield to—; —beats out; —bores; — forces; —grinds; —plunges into; —strikes; —uncovers.

Synonyms for Drill

 * (noun) discipline, exercise, instruction, study, practice, repetition, training, boring tool.
 * (verb) bore, perforate, puncture.

Derived terms

 * drill sergeant

Thesaurus
accustom, aculeus, acumination, application, apprentice, apprenticeship, athletics, auger, basic training, bed, bit, bite, bone, boning, bore, bore bit, borer, brace and bit, brainwork, break, break in, breaking, breast auger, breast drill, breather, breed, breeding, bring up, broach, broadcast, burr, burrow, calisthenics, chamfer bit, coach, common practice, con, condition, conditioning, conning, constitutional, contemplate, contemplation, corkscrew, countersink, cram, cramming, cross bit, cultivate, cultivation, cusp, daily dozen, deepen, delve, depress, develop, development, diamond drill, dibble, dig, dig out, dike, discipline, disseminate, dive, dredge, drill press, drilling, drive, elucubrate, empierce, engrossment, examine, excavate, exercise, exercising, extensive study, fetch up, fetching-up, fit, fix, forest, form, foster, fostering, furrow, gimlet, go over, gore, gouge, gouge out, grind, grinding, groom, grooming, groove, grub, gymnastic exercises, gymnastics, habituate, hand drill, headwork, hole, honeycomb, house-train, housebreak, housebreaking, impale, implant, improve, improvement, in-service training, indoctrinate, inseminate, inspection, instruct, isometrics, keyway drill, lance, lick into shape, lower, lucubrate, lucubration, manual training, matter of course, mental labor, military training, mine, mucro, neb, needle, nib, nurse, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training, penetrate, perforate, perusal, peruse, physical education, physical jerks, pierce, pink, plant, plunge into, point, pore over, portable drill, posthole auger, pot, power drill, practice, preparation, prepare, prescribed form, prick, prickle, procedure, pump drill, punch, puncture, put in, put in tune, put to school, quarry, raise, raising, ratchet drill, read, reading, ready, readying, ream, ream out, reamer, rear, rearing, reforest, regard studiously, rehearsal, rehearse, repetition, reset, restudy, restudying, retimber, review, riddle, rotary drill, rule, run through, sap, scatter seed, school, scoop, scoop out, scrabble, scrape, scratch, seed, seed down, seminate, send to school, set, set form, setting-up exercises, shovel, sink, skewer, sloyd, sow, sow broadcast, spade, spear, spike, spit, stab, standard operating procedure, standing orders, star drill, stick, sting, strap drill, stretch, study, studying, subject, swot, swotting, take in hand, tap, teach, tip, train, training, transfix, transpierce, transplant, trench, trepan, trephine, trough, tunnel, tutor, twist bit, twist drill, upbringing, vet, vocational education, vocational training, wade through, wide reading, wimble, workout, yoga

Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch drillen ‘bore, move in a circle’.

Etymology 2
Probably of African origin; compare mandrill.

Etymology 3
Abbreviation of drilling:.

Verb

 * Bulgarian: пробивам, сондирам
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: boren
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: קדח


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Latin: transfigere
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: vrtati, izvrtati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: borra


 * Bulgarian: тренирам, обучавам се
 * Dutch: drillen
 * Finnish:
 * French: s’entraîner
 * German: schleifen
 * Greek: εκπαιδεύω
 * Hebrew: תרגל


 * Hungarian: gyakorlatozik
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: drilla, träna


 * Dutch: instampen, blokken
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: drillen
 * Hungarian: besulykol


 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: terpe
 * Russian: вдалбливать (vdálblivat') imperf., вдолбить (vdolbít') perf.
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: drilla, nöta


 * Dutch: graven
 * Finnish: porautua
 * French:
 * Italian: scavare
 * Norwegian: dypdykke


 * Russian: копать (kopát') imperf., копнуть (kopnút') perf.
 * Slovene: vrtati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: undersöka


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,


 * French:
 * Swedish: drilla

Noun

 * Bulgarian: свредел, бормашина
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, foreuse
 * German: Bohrer
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: מקדחה (maqdekha)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:


 * Italian:
 * Latin: terebra
 * Maltese: trapan, golja , driller
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: wiertarka
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovene: vrtalnik
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: borr, borrmaskin, borrsväng


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: foret ,


 * German: Drill
 * Polish: wiertło
 * Swedish: borrmaskin


 * Bulgarian:, строева подготовка
 * Finnish:, harjoite
 * French: ,
 * German: Drill
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hungarian: gyakorlatozás


 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, simulacro
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: drill
 * Vietnamese:

Related terms

 * drill bit
 * twist drill
 * drill press
 * drill down

Noun

 * Bulgarian: мандрил
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * Russian: дрил (dril)
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * Bulgarian: габардин

Etymology
drill:

Noun

 * 1)  (tool)