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Definition: Drill Hole |
Drill HoleNoun1. (mining terms) a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A hole or well drilled or bored principally by mechanical means in order to explore geological conditions and/or to tap oil deposits. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. A hole in rock or coal made with an auger or a drill. b. Technically, a circular hole drilled by forces applied percussively; loosely and commonly, the name applies to a circular hole drilled in any manner c. Used by diamond drillers as a syn. for borehole. CF:boreho. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Drill HoleSynonyms: bore (n), bore-hole (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Drill Hole |
| English words defined with "drill hole": drill site ♦ shot hole ♦ tamp, tamper. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "drill hole": alinement clamp ♦ balance shot, brine well, broken charge, bucket auger ♦ collaring a hole, continuous charge, Coromant cut ♦ dead hole, degree of packing, down-the-hole extensometer, DRILLER, HAND, driving cap, dry hole ♦ effective breaking force ♦ failed hole ♦ geotomography ♦ Hall-Rowe wedge ♦ knox hole ♦ length of shot, lining mark, loading density, loose stone, lost core ♦ making hole, mill shoe ♦ NATURAL GAMMA ♦ overburden drilling ♦ PERCUSSION-INSTRUMENT REPAIRER, plastic and semiplastic explosive, plug-and-feather method, polygonal method, pophole ♦ rod puller ♦ sidewall core, single shot, slime sludge, slim-hole drilling and casing, slung cartridges, smooth blasting, solid loading, SPECTRAL GAMMA, stratascope, string loading ♦ thermal boring, TREE DRILLER ♦ water leyner, well logging. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Using gas drill to drill hole for bench mark. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
drill hole square | 4 |
drill hole | 4 |
3 challenge drill hole | 4 |
drill hole post | 3 |
deep drill hole steel | 2 |
cranium drill hole | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "drill hole"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | opretning af et borehul (to straighten a drill hole), inforatio (Beck bore, drill hole osteoclasis), boringsosteoklasi (drill hole osteoclasis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | put (cave, cavity, well), boring (calibre), boorgat (bore, bore hole, borehole, boring, drilled hole, hole, shot hole, trial pit, well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | reiän oikaisu (to straighten a drill hole), porareiän suoristaminen (to straighten a drill hole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | trou de sonde, sonde, sondage, puit, forage (drilling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sonde (probe, sonde, tube), Bohrung (bore, borehole, boring, drill-hole, drilling, sinking), Bohrloch (bore, borehole, boring, drill-hole, well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ερευνητική γεώτρηση (bore, bore hole, boring, hole, new-pool wildcat, well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trivellazione (bore, bore hole, boring, hole, well), sondaggio (poll, probing, sounding, survey), perforazione di sondaggio (bore, bore hole, boring, hole, well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | illdray olehay sondagem (pump). (various references) sondeo (canvass, feeler, overture, probe, probing, reconnaissance, sounding), perforación (boring, drilling, perforation, piercing, puncture). (various references) räta upp ett borrhål (to straighten a drill hole), korrigera ett borrhål (to straighten a drill hole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-l-l-l-o-r" | |
-2 letters: hilloed. | |
-3 letters: hilled, hiller, holder, holier, holler, lolled, loller, rilled, roiled, rolled. | |
-4 letters: dhole, drill, droll, helio, hello, hider, hillo, hired, holed, horde, idler, iller, oiled, oiler, older, oldie, oriel, reoil, riled, rille. | |
-5 letters: deil, deli, dell, diel, dill, diol, dire, dirl, doer, dole, doll, dore, elhi, heil, heir, held, hell, helo, herd, herl. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 72 69 6C 6C 48 6F 6C 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01110010 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01001000 01101111 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D r i l l   H o l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0072 0069 006C 006C 0048 006F 006C 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3884757878242817871 |
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