drill

Definitions

1. 1transitive verb

   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.

2. 2transitive verb

   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.

3. 3intransitive verb

   To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.

4. 4noun

   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.

5. 5noun

   The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.

6. 6noun

   Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.

7. 7noun

   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.

8. 8transitive verb

   To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.

9. 9transitive verb

   To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.

10. 10transitive verb

    To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.

11. 11transitive verb

    To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.

12. 12intransitive verb

    To trickle.

13. 13intransitive verb

    To sow in drills.

14. 14noun

    A small trickling stream; a rill.

15. 15noun

    An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.

16. 16noun

    A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.

17. 17noun

    A row of seed sown in a furrow.

18. 18noun

    A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).

19. 19noun

    Same as Drilling.

20. 20noun

    (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms

21. 21noun

    systematic training by multiple repetitions

    "practice makes perfect"

    Synonyms

    exercisepracticerecitation
22. 22noun

    similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored

23. 23noun

    a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)

24. 24verb

    train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons

25. 25verb

    undergo military training or do military exercises

26. 26verb

    learn by repetition

    "We drilled French verbs every day"

    "Pianists practice scales"

    Synonyms

    exercisepracticepractise
27. 27verb

    teach by repetition

28. 28verb

    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"

    Synonyms

    bore