drill

drill is a 5-letter English word with 28 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 28 senses

Definitions

1. transitive 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. transitive 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. intransitive verb. To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
4. noun. 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. noun. 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. noun. Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.
7. noun. 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. transitive verb. To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.
9. transitive verb. To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.
10. transitive verb. To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.
11. transitive verb. To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
12. intransitive verb. To trickle.
13. intransitive verb. To sow in drills.
14. noun. A small trickling stream; a rill.
15. noun. An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
16. noun. A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.
17. noun. A row of seed sown in a furrow.
18. noun. A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).
19. noun. Same as Drilling.
20. noun. (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms
21. noun. systematic training by multiple repetitions

    "practice makes perfect"

    Synonyms: exercise, practice, recitation

22. noun. similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored
23. noun. a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)
24. verb. train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons
25. verb. undergo military training or do military exercises
26. verb. learn by repetition

    "We drilled French verbs every day"

    "Pianists practice scales"

    Synonyms: exercise, practice, practise

27. verb. teach by repetition
28. verb. 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

Synonyms

exercise, practice, recitation, practise, bore

Common word forms

drills, drilled, driller, drilling, drillable

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