drill

== English == === Pronunciation === enPR: drĭl, IPA(key): /dɹɪl/, [dɹɪɫ] Rhymes: -ɪl === Etymology 1 === From Middle Dutch drillen (“bore, move in a circle”). ==== Verb ==== drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled) (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool). Synonyms: excavate, bore, gouge; see also Thesaurus:make a hole (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context. (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train, especially in military arts. (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it. (intransitive, figurative) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level (transitive) To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power. (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context. (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate. Synonyms: plow, poke, root, shaft; see also Thesaurus:copulate with (slang) To shoot; to kill by shooting. Synonym: drill up ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== drill (plural drills) A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece. The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit. An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence. fire drill;   disaster drill;   emergency drill A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition. Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx and others, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that make holes in the shells of their prey. (uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago. [from 2010s] (countable, music) A single performance of drill music. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Related terms ==== drill bit twist drill drill press drill down ==== Further reading ==== “drill v.1”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present. drill (tool) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia drill music on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Ocenebrinae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies === Etymology 2 === Perhaps the same as Etymology 3; compare German Rille which can also mean "small furrow". ==== Noun ==== drill (plural drills) An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing. A row of seed sown in a furrow. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled) (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === Uncertain. Compare the same sense of trill, and German trillen, drillen. Attestation predates Etymology 1. ==== Noun ==== drill (plural drills) (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill. c. 1635, George Sandys: ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled) (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 4 === From Middle English drillen (“to delay, defer, put off”), of origin unknown. ==== Verb ==== drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled) (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To protract, lengthen out; fritter away, spend (time) aimlessly. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on. Synonyms: entice, lead on, lure (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. August 28, 1731, letter by Jonathan Swift to John Gay and Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry This cursed accident hath drilled away the whole summer. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 5 === Source unknown. Probably of African origin; compare mandrill. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) ==== Noun ==== drill (plural drills) An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face. ===== Translations ===== ==== Further reading ==== drill (animal) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Mandrillus leucophaeus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Mandrillus leucophaeus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons === Etymology 6 === From German Drillich (“denim, canvas, drill”). ==== Noun ==== drill (countable and uncountable, plural drills) A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave. ===== Synonyms ===== chino ===== Derived terms ===== khaki drill, KD ===== Descendants ===== ===== Translations ===== == French == === Etymology === From English drill. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /dʁil/ === Noun === drill m (plural drills) drill (tool) ==== Related terms ==== driller === Further reading === “drill”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == German == === Pronunciation === === Verb === drill singular imperative of drillen (colloquial) first-person singular present of drillen == Norwegian Bokmål == === Verb === drill imperative of drille