drill : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: drill	by the DICT Development Group
9 results for drill
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drill n a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows) similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored Synonym(s): drill, Mandrillus leucophaeus systematic training by multiple repetitions; "practice makes perfect" Synonym(s): exercise, practice, drill, practice session, recitation (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms v 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"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall" Synonym(s): bore, drill train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons learn by repetition; "We drilled French verbs every day"; "Pianists practice scales" Synonym(s): drill, exercise, practice, practise teach by repetition undergo military training or do military exercises
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drill \Drill\, v. i. To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drill \Drill\, n. 1. 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. 2. (Mil.) 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. 3. Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar. 4. (Zo[94]l.) 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}. {Bow drill}, {Breast drill}. See under {Bow}, {Breast}. {Cotter drill}, [or] {Traverse drill}, a machine tool for drilling slots. {Diamond drill}. See under {Diamond}. {Drill jig}. See under {Jig}. {Drill pin}, the pin in a lock which enters the hollow stem of the key. {Drill sergeant} (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer whose office it is to instruct soldiers as to their duties, and to train them to military exercises and evolutions. {Vertical drill}, a drill press.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drill \Drill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Drilled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drilling}.] [D. drillen to bore, drill (soldiers); probably akin to AS. pyrlian, pyrelian, to pierce. See {Thrill}.] 1. 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. 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. He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers. -- Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drill \Drill\, v. i. 1. To trickle. [Obs. or R.] --Sandys. 2. To sow in drills.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drill \Drill\, n. 1. A small trickling stream; a rill. [Obs.] Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills. --Sandys. 2. (Agr.) (a) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. (b) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing. (c) A row of seed sown in a furrow.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drill \Drill\, v. t. [Cf. {Trill} to trickle, {Trickle}, {Dribble}, and W. rhillio to put in a row, drill.] 1. To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. [R.] --Thomson. 2. To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water. 3. To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on. [Obs.] See drilled him on to five-fifty. -- Addison. 4. To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. [Obs.] This accident hath drilled away the whole summer. -- Swift.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drill \Drill\, n. [Cf. {Mandrill}.] (Zo[94]l.) A large African baboon ({Cynocephalus leucoph[91]us}).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drill \Drill\, n. [Usually in pl.] (Manuf.) Same as {Drilling}. {Imperial drill}, a linen fabric having two threads in the warp and three in the filling.