Drill

Definition: Drill

Drill

Noun

1. A rotating power drill powered by an electric motor.

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

3. Similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored.

4. Training in marching and the use of weapons.

5. Systematic training by multiple repetitions; "practice makes perfect".

Verb

1. Drill a hole into.

2. Train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons.

3. Learn by repetition.

4. Teach by repetition.

5. Undergo military training or do military exercises.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "drill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Industry

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Drill

Opening

Perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine; (scoop out); tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave in.

Perforator

Noun: perforator, piercer, borer, auger, chisel, gimlet, stylet, drill, wimble, awl, bradawl, scoop, terrier, corkscrew, dibble, trocar, trepan, probe, bodkin, needle, stiletto, rimer, warder, lancet; punch, puncheon; spikebit, gouge; spear; (weapon); puncher; punching machine, punching press; punch pliers.

Rotation

Carousel, merry-go-round; Ferris wheel; top, dreidel,teetotum; gyroscope; turntable, lazy suzan; screw, whirligig, rollingstone, water wheel, windmill; wheel, pulley wheel, roulette wheel, potter's wheel, pinwheel, gear; roller; flywheel; jack; caster; centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, bench centrifuge, refrigerated centrifuge, gas centrifuge, microfuge; drill, augur, oil rig; wagon wheel, wheel, tire, tyre.

Teaching

Train, discipline; bring up, bring up to; form, ground, prepare, qualify; drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, drynurse, breed, rear, take in hand; break, break in; tame; preinstruct; initiate; inure; (habituate).

Gymnastics, calisthenics; physical drill, physical education; sloyd.

Drill, practice; book exercise.

Crosswords: Drill

German (bull, discipline, drill), Norwegian (drill), Swedish (drill, exercises, quaver, trill).

Egon, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole in your head, remember that (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.)

Thank you for participating in our drill. Hopefully you enjoyed our smaller, more energy-efficient subway cars (Men in Black II; writing credit: Lowell Cunningham; Robert Gordon)

Alright everyone, it's the standard Grampa drill everyone into the cellar (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Ilsa, this is Cyclops, Blade, Dr, Death, Drill Sergeant, Pinhead, and Six-Shooter (Retro Puppet Master; writing credit: Charles B; Benjamin Carr)

In any place where they fight, a man who knows how to drill men can always be a King (The Man Who Would Be King; writing credit: Gladys Hill; John Huston)

Will drill a hole in you (Turn Back Time; performing artist: Aqua)

Willy Drill (1922)

Thrilling Drill (1920)

Albuquerque Indian School Fire Drill (1903)

Artillery Drill at Annapolis (1901)

Calisthenic Drill (1901)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Iron and Steel Bars, Rods, and Hollow Mining Drill Steel in France (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Iron and Steel Bars, Rods, and Hollow Mining Drill Steel Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Iron and Steel Bars, Rods, and Hollow Mining Drill Steel in Africa (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Iron and Steel Bars, Rods, and Hollow Mining Drill Steel Export Supplies (reference)

• The World Market for Iron and Steel Bars, Rods, and Hollow Mining Drill Steel: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Arthur's Fire Drill (Arthur Step into Reading Sticker Book, paper) (reference)

• Football Drill Book (reference)

• Helicopters, Drill Sergeants and Consultants: Parenting Styles and the Messages They Send (reference)

• Hockey Drill Book (reference)

• The Incredible Hockey Drill Book: More Than 600 Drills (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Drill Bits Weekly (reference)

• Alberta Drill Hole Status Book (reference)

• Cold Drill (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Silent Drill Teams (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Drill (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• ESPN's Two Minute Drill (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Bucket Boss Brand 54006P Drill Holster--plus Free Mug Boss, a $4.99 Value (reference)

• DeWalt DW1969 29-Piece Pilot Point Drill Set with Metal Index (reference)

• DeWalt DW124K 1/2" Heavy Duty 8.0 Amp Joist and Stud Drill Kit (reference)

• Black & Decker FSC414K-2 Firestorm 14.4-Volt, 4-Tool Kit--plus Free 100 Piece Power Drill Bit Set, a $19.99 Value (reference)

• Panasonic EY6432GQKWK 15.6-Volt 1/2" Cordless Hyperformance Drill with 2 NiMH Batteries, Plus Bigg Lugg Tool Holder - a $9.99 Value (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Using gas drill to drill hole for bench mark. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A diver uses a pneumatic drill to create a hole in the reef framework to secure loose coral fragments. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Preparing to drill into a coral reef to study climate over the past 20,000 yrs. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

U.S. Air Force Drill Team member Staff Sgt. Sam Edmonds walks between a column of spinning rifles during the NFL Players Huddle Party at MacDill AFB, Fla., Jan. 23, 2001. People and aircraft from various bases around the nation to include a Charleston bas.

Southern Iowa farmer uses a grass drill to interseed native grasses into a cool-season field of grasses. Credit: Lynn Betts.

No-till operation seeding corn into barley stuble showing details of drill and packers. Washington County, Virginia. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Using a grass drill to interseed legumes in a bluegrass pasture in southern Iowa to get more production. Credit: Lynn Betts.

No-till drill working in central Iowa. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Rangeland Drill SeedingRange Restoration Project. Credit: Mike Pellant.

Oil rig workers picking up a drill pipe joint. Credit: Merv Coleman.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Jean Valjean was in the shadow with the iron drill in his hand, erect, motionless, terrified, at this radiant figure

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Although this report does not enter into detail regarding accessories for power tools, sales of power tools inevitably generate demand for accessories, such as drill bits and sanding sheets. (references)

Economic History

Cote D'ivoire

Vanco Energy, a US company, is also expecting to drill sometime in 2003. (references)

Guyana

This dispute flared up in June 2000 in response to an effort by a Canadian company to drill for oil under a Guyanese concession. (references)

Egypt

Oil and gas exploration companies must drill at least one well in each phase of the exploration period specified in their agreement. (references)

Trade

Bolivia

This applies to equipment imported by the oil companies that is "consumed" in the process of development and cannot be re-exported, such as pipe and drill bits. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "drill": abrasion drill ♦ aiming drill ♦ Air drill ♦ arms drill ♦ army drill ♦ battle drill ♦ bayonet drill ♦ Bow drill ♦ Breast drill ♦ burr drill ♦ concrete drill ♦ Cotter drill ♦ dental drill ♦ dentist's drill ♦ Diamond drill ♦ do arms drill ♦ Drill barrow ♦ drill bit ♦ Drill bow ♦ drill chuck ♦ drill for oil ♦ drill ground ♦ Drill harrow ♦ drill hole ♦ drill in ♦ drill instructor ♦ Drill jig ♦ Drill lathe ♦ drill master ♦ drill mine ♦ Drill pin ♦ drill pipe ♦ Drill plough ♦ Drill plow ♦ Drill press ♦ drill regulations ♦ drill rig ♦ drill rod ♦ Drill sergeant ♦ drill site ♦ drill steel ♦ drill through ♦ dry drill ♦ electric drill ♦ Expanding drill ♦ fire drill ♦ Fly drill ♦ foot drill ♦ Gang drill ♦ hammer drill ♦ hand drill ♦ handheld drill ♦ Horizontal drill ♦ Imperial drill ♦ military drill ♦ pack drill ♦ peg drill ♦ percussion drill ♦ percussive drill ♦ persian drill ♦ pin drill ♦ pneumatic drill ♦ power drill ♦ radial drill ♦ radial drill press ♦ ratchet drill ♦ recruit drill ♦ rifle drill ♦ rock drill ♦ rotary drill ♦ seed drill ♦ spiral drill ♦ square drill ♦ star drill ♦ stone drill ♦ Traverse drill ♦ twist drill ♦ upright drill ♦ vertical drill. Additional references.

Beginning with "drill": drill-bit, drill-down, drill-furrow, drill-hall, drill-hole, drill-holes, drill-indicated, drill-like, drill-makers, drill-master, drill-press, Drill-sarn, drill-sergeant, drill-stem, drill-string.

Ending with "drill": power-drill, Rock-drill.

Containing "drill": Hy-drill-a.

Albanian

stërvit (break in, coach, discipline, educate, exercise, practise, train), babuin, biroj (bore, hole, perforate, puncture), brazdë (furrow, groove), kërmill që shkatërron midhjet, makinë mbjellëse (planter, seeder, seeding machine, sower), mbjell me rreshta në brazda, pëlhurë e sertë, bëj ushtrime, shpoj (bore, broach, drive, flesh, hole, impale, jab, perforate, Pierce, pink, poke, prick, prickle, punch, puncture, run through, Spike, spit, stab, stick, sting), xhins, stërvitje (coaching, discipline, dressage, drilling, exercise, practice, training, workout), trapan (auger, boring machine, broach, loft, trepan), turielë (tail spin), udhëzim përdorimi, ushtrim (discipline, exercise, practice, training), ushtrohem (exercise), ushtroj (discipline, ply, practise, profess, pursue, train), rreshta të mbjellë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏زرع في ثلم, ‏درب (coach, discipline, exercise, groom, path, pathway, school, train), ‏دريل نسيج, ‏ثقب (aperture, bore, broach, hole, hull, orifice, peck, perforate, perforation, pick holes in smth., pierce, prick, prickle, punch, puncture, tear, vent), ‏أداة تشق الأثلام, ‏صف بذور, ‏بذر (blow, disseminate, dissipate, fritter, inseminate, run through, sow, sowing, spend, squander, waste), ‏علم (adudicate, advertise, advertize, advise, apprise, apprize, banner, bar, bunting, coach, cognizance, cognize, educate, flag, indoctrinate, inform, instruct, know, knowledge, learning, let know, locate, mark, mark out, notify, post, profess, read, scholarship, school, science, standard, teach, tell, tick), ‏نقل المعارف, ‏تدرب (exercise, intern, practice, practise, train, training, work out), ‏تدريب عسكري, ‏تمرين (coaching, pack drill, practice, student teaching, training), ‏حفر (bore, burrow, burrowing, dig, digging, digging in, ditch, drilling, etch, excavate, excavation, fetch, fossilize, gnaw, grave, hew, inscribe, make a hole in, pick up, pit, plough, rut, scrape, sink), ‏نثر (besprinkle, disperse, disseminate, distribute, intersperse, outwit, prose, scatter, sow, sowing, sown, sprinkle, strew, strewing, yank), ‏نغب, ‏صوت ثاقب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

торя на редове, пускам сонда (spud), бормашина (driller), бразда (furrow, groove, line, notch, rut, score, sulcus), бургия (auger, bore, broach, perforator), ленен габардин, минавам строево обучение, обучавам (discipline, form, ground, instruct, lesson, pace, school, take, teach, train, tutor, verse), вид мандрил, памучен габардин, гимнастическо упражнение, строга дисциплина (regimentation), тренирам (coach, educate, exercise, fit, form, practice, practise, train, work out), тренировка (drilling, exercise, practice, schooling, training, workout), редосеялка (seed drill, seeder), рутина (groove, jogtrot, rote, round, routine, rut), сея на бразди, свредел (auger, borer, broach, perforator, reamer), упражнявам (exercise, exert, pace, ply, practice, practise, profess, pursue, rehearse, train), строева подготовка (drilling), вид морски охлюв (sea snail, sea-ear). (various references)

Chinese 

钻子, 訓練 (exercise, train, training), 練習 (exercise), 操練 (practice). (various references)

Czech

dril, vrtat (bore, poke), vrtaèka (brace and bit, drilling machine), výcvik (education, schooling, training), cvièit (exercise, practise, school, take exercise, train), cvièení (exercise, exercises, practice). (various references)

Danish

bore (bore). (various references)

Dutch

boren (bore). (various references)

Esperanto

bori (bore). (various references)

Faeroese

bora (bore). (various references)

Farsi 

مته زدن , مته (Auger, Bore, Gimlet), مشق نظامی , تمرین کردن (Practice, Practise, Rehearse), تمرین (Exercise, Practice, Practise, Rehearsal, Ure, Use, Workout), تعلیم دادن (Educate, Enlighten, Guide, Teach). (various references)

Finnish

porata (bore), pora (bore). (various references)

French

percer, forer, semoir (seed drill), perceuse (drilling machine), fraise (dental drill, plough drill), foreuse (drilling machine), foret. (various references)

German

bohrer (auger, augers, bore, borer, driller, gimlet, wimble), bohren (bore, boring, drive, gnaw, keep on, pick, sink), Drillbohrer (Archimedean drill, handle bone drill, screw drill), Bohrmaschine (boring machine, drilling machine, power drill). (various references)

Greek 

τρυπάνι (auger, bit, brace and bit, gimlet), άσκηση (exercise, practice, practise), τρυπώ (bore, broach, lance, prick, prong, punch, puncture, riddle, spear, stave, stave in, sting, tap, terebrate, thrust, wimble), δράπανο (boring machine, drilling machine). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקדחה (drilling machine), מקדח (auger, bit, borer, miser), לתרגל (exercise, practise), להתעמל (exercise, work out), להתאמן (practise, train), תרגילי סדר, תרגיל (etude, exercise, practice, training), תרגולת (drilling), תרגול (exercise, practice, rehearsal, training), דקר (hoe, pick, stab). (various references)

Hungarian

fúró (auger, bit, boring bit, drilling, piercing), kiképzés (arms drill, drilling, indoctrination, shaping, training, training of new recruit), gyakorlatozás (drilling), bíborcsiga-faj, csinvat (duck, ticking), durva vászon, fúrás (bore, boring, drilling), ültetősor, furdancs (brace, brace and bit), zsákvászon (burlap, gunny, hessian, sackcloth, sacking), mandrill (mandrill), mellfurdancs, sorvetőgép, vetőbarázda (bed), vetősor, fúrógép (drilling machine). (various references)

Indonesian

membor, kain dril, gurdi (auger), bor-bor, bor, berbopong. (various references)

Italian

trapano (auger, trepan, wimble). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

錐 (auger), 軍事訓練 (military exercise), 穿孔機 (perforator, puncher), ドラ息子 (being pegged to the dollar, Dolby, Dolby surround, dolce, dolcissimo, Doline, doll, dollar, dollar clause, dollar peg, dollar shift, dollar shock, dollar shop, dollar usance, dolly, dolman sleeve, dolmen, dolphin kick, doria, Dorian, Dortmund, dream, dreamer, dreaming, dreamy, dribble, drifter, drink, drip coffee, driven, durian, lazy son, profligate son), 教練 , 修錬 (culture, practice, training), 修煉 (culture, practice, training), 修練 (culture, practice, training). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ドリル , きり (all there is, auger, bounds, closing sentence, end, fog, limits, mist, only, paulownia tree, period, place to leave off, since), しゅうれん (astringency, contraction, convergence, culture, discipline, extraction, heavy taxation, practice, training), きょうれん, ぐんじくんれん (military exercise), せんこうき (perforator, puncher). (various references)

Korean 

교련 (Drilling). (various references)

Manx

tarrarey (drilling), tarrar, oirragh (marginal), fanneyder (flayer, fleecer; basking shark, skinner, sting), drilleyder, drilley, drillal (drilling). (various references)

Norwegian

drill, eksersis, bor. (various references)

Papiamen

bora (bore), bor (bore). (various references)

Pig Latin

illdray.(various references)

Portuguese

furar (bore, boring, broach, fall through, hole, jab, perforate, pierce, prick, punch, puncture, spit, stab, tap, thrust), brocar (bore), broca (auger, bit, bore, borer, broach, drill bit, piercer, wimble). (various references)

Romanian

disciplinã de fier, face instrucţie militarã, antrena (coach, engage, entail, fit, induct, inveigle, involve, pace, rally, stimulate, train), antrenament (absorbing, practice, spar, training, workout), boroanã (brake, Harrow), boroni, burghiu (auger, bit, borer, broach, gimlet, wimble), burghiu spiral, învãţa (bone, educate, ground, indoctrinate, instruct, inure, learn, master, read, school, study, teach, train), face exerciţii (exercise), sfredeli (bore, pounce, prick, turn), gãuri (bore, drift, Gore, hole, perforate, Pierce, pink, pounce, prick, prickle, puncture, spring, vent), instrucţie militarã (training), instrui (coach, cultivate, exercise, instruct, school, teach, train), perfora (clip, perforate, Pierce, prick, prickle, punch, thrill), semãna în rânduri, semãnãtoare în rânduri, sfredel (auger, borer, burr, gimlet, wimble), exerciţiu (exercise, homework, practice, study). (various references)

Romany

boorgìya. (various references)

Russian 

сверло (auger, bit, borer, drill bit, perforator), сажать рядами, высверливать (bore), обучение (drilling, indoctrination, instruction, learning by insight, nurture, schooling, teaching, tirocinium, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring), муштровка, буравить (bore, gimlet). (various references)

Scottish

riamh (a drill, always; used only of past time : bha e, before, ever), riadh (a drill, a snare: *reigo-, interest, interest of money). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vrteti (gyrate, turn, twiddle), vežbati (exercise, practise, train), uvežbati (practice, train), trenirati (train, work out), trening (training, warming up, working out, workout), obučavati (teach, train), izbušiti (punch), burgija (gimlet), bušiti (bore), bušilica (borer, drilling machine, miser, trepan). (various references)

Shona

chibooreso. (various references)

Spanish

taladro (auger, bore, boring, punching), perforadora (borer, perforator, punch, puncher, punching machine), ejercicio (exercise, practice, practicing, practise, practising, prosecution, test), broca (broach), barrena (aiguille, auger, bore, borer, spin). (various references)

Sranan

boro (bore). (various references)

Swedish

borra (bore, sink), exercera (train), drilla (Carol, cram, exercise, tootle, trill, warble, whistle), drill (exercises, quaver, trill). (various references)

Thai

เครื่องหว่านเมล็ดพืช, เจาะ (dig), สว่านไฟฟ้า, การฝึกฝน, ฝึกฝน, ร่องที่ใช้หว่านพืช, หว่านพืช. (various references)

Turkish

delgi (auger, bit, borer, broach, burr-drill, gimlet, punch, trepan), delik açmak (bore, dig a hole, hole, honeycomb, make a hole in, Pierce, ream, ream out, run through, slot, vent), delmek (bore, broach, dig into, dig through, hole, make a hole in, perforate, pick, Pierce, pink, prick, puncture, ream, ream out, Spike, stab, stave in, stick), diril, matkapla delmek, batı afrika mandril maymunu, kaba pamuklu kumaş (denim), kuyu açmak, çalıştırmak (actuate, drive, employ, exercise, have smb. on the payroll, make smth. work, make things hum, operate, power, put on, run, set to work, start, start up, switch on, task), matkap (auger, bit, borer, broach, burr-drill, gimlet), tohum yatağı, sonda ile yoklamak (probe, sound), sondaj yapmak (bore), talim (drilling, exercise), talim yapmak, talim yaptırmak, tarh (bed, border), tohum ekme makinesi, tohum ekmek (disseminate, seed, sow), makine ile tohum ekmek. (various references)

Turkmen 

zarяadka (r) (exercise, loading), burawlamak (bore). (various references)

Ukrainian

свердел (auger, borer, gimlet, hand-brace, perforator, piercer), тренуватися (exercise, practise), тренувати (coach, educate, practise), вправа (drilling, exercise, gymnastic, practice), муштрувати, дриль. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự rèn luyện thường xuyên. (various references)

decurrant, decurrens, decurrent, decurrentes, decurrentis, decurrere, decurrit, decurrunt, exerce, exerceant, exercebant, exercebantur, exercebatur, exercebor, exercebuntur, exercens, exercent, exercentes, exercentibus, exercere, exercerent, exercete, exercetis, exercitu, exercitum, exercitus, exercuerant, exercuerat, exercuere, exercuerunt, exercuit. (various references)

dril, drille. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "drill": drillabilities, drillability, drillable, drilled, driller, drillers, drilling, drillings, drillmaster, drillmasters, drills. (additional references)

Words ending with "drill": mandrill, predrill, redrill. (additional references)

Words containing "drill": cuadrilla, cuadrillas, escadrille, escadrilles, espadrille, espadrilles, mandrills, predrilled, predrilling, predrills, quadrille, quadrilles, quadrillion, quadrillions, quadrillionth, quadrillionths, redrilled, redrilling, redrills, tendrilled, undrilled. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Drill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Crill, Darvill, deril, dirdl, dirls, Djilali, Dorell, dracl, dral, drally, drell, Drella, drial, driel, dril, driol, druil, Errill. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dill, dirl, rill.

-2 letters: ill, lid, rid.

-3 letters: id, li.

+1 letter: drills, rilled.

+2 letters: dallier, dialler, drilled, driller, frilled, grilled, lairdly, luridly, prilled, rallied, redrill, trilled.

+3 letters: arillode, arilloid, bellbird, billiard, birdcall, brailled, bridally, collider, dalliers, diallers, doorsill, drillers, drilling, drolling, floridly, galliard, gladlier, grillade, halliard, killdeer, lardlike, lordlier, lordlike, lordling, loudlier, mandrill, milliard, paillard, perilled, pillared, predrill, radially, rebilled, redrills, refilled, ribaldly, rivalled, roadkill, shrilled, thrilled, tillered, trollied, willyard.