Drilling

Definition: Drilling

Drilling

Noun

1. The act of drilling.

2. The act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum.

Date "drilling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)

Specialty Definition: Drilling

Domain	Definition
Industry	A strong, warp-faced, twilled, cotton fabric, medium to heavy weight generally made with coarse carded yarns in a 2 up, one down left-hand twill, in a dense construction. . . drilling: rare . . Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	Holes or bores that are drilled in the ground. Source: European Union. (references)
	A. The act or process of making a circular hole with a drill. See also:drill b. The operation of tunneling or stoping, whether with a compressed-air rock drill, a jackhammer, or a drifter c. Use of a compressed-air rock drill to prepare rock for blasting d. The operation of making deep holes with a drill for prospecting,exploration, or valuation. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Drilling

Synonyms: boring (n), oil production (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Drilling

English words defined with "drilling": bitstock, black diamond, blade bit, boring, brace, burr ♦ carbonado, core bit, Cotter drill ♦ drill bit, Drill lathe, Drill press, drill rig, drilling bit, drilling fluid, drilling mud, drilling pipe, drilling platform, drilling rig ♦ fishtail bit ♦ Gadding car, Gang drill ♦ hammer, Horizontal drill ♦ machine tool ♦ offshore rig, oil production, oil rig, oilrig ♦ power hammer ♦ rock drill ♦ Speed lathe ♦ Upright drill. (references)

Specialty definitions using "drilling": air rotary drilling, assembler, portable oil-well drilling rig, assessment drilling ♦ cable-tool drilling, center drilling, chilled-shot drilling ♦ diamond drilling, directional drilling, drilling conditioning period, drilling inspector, drilling jig, drilling report, drilling string, drilling time, dry drilling, dry rotary drilling ♦ exploration drilling, explosive drilling ♦ foam drilling ♦ geologic drilling ♦ hand drilling, hard-rock drilling, Hollow Stem Auger Drilling, hydraulic rotary drilling ♦ inclined drilling ♦ measured drilling depth, mineral-extracting industry through drilling ♦ noncore drilling, Nusse and Grafer PIV/6 drilling machine ♦ overall drilling time, overburden drilling ♦ percussion drilling, percussive drilling, pressure drilling, primary drilling ♦ radial drilling machine, rapid blow drilling, resonant frequency drilling, rotary drilling, rotary percussive drilling ♦ secondary drilling, shaft drilling, slant drilling, solid drilling, sonic drilling, structural drilling, structure drilling, submarine drilling, superintendent, drilling, SUPERVISOR, CORE DRILLING ♦ toe-to-toe drilling ♦ ultrasonic drilling ♦ vibration drilling ♦ water-jet drilling, wet drilling, wire-line drilling. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Drilling" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (triplet).

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Modern Usage: Drilling

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Drilling holes in his head isn't the answer! (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; writing credit: Leonard Nimoy; Harve Bennett) By drilling a hole the evil spirits are released, thus saving the person from eternal damnation. (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright)
Movie/TV Titles	Thrilling Drilling (1974) Manual of Arms Cubans Drilling (1898) 14th U.S. Infantry Drilling at the Presidio (1898)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Drilling

Domain	Title
References	AKITA Drilling Ltd: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Petrolia Drilling ASA: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Noble Drilling Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) NQL Drilling Tools, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	A Primer of Oilwell Drilling: A Basic Text of Oil and Gas Drilling (reference) Air and Gas Drilling Manual (reference) Applied Drilling Engineering (Spe Textbook Series, Vol 2) (reference) Composition and Properties of Drilling and Completion Fluids (reference) Drilling Ahead (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Alberta Drilling Progress And Pipeline Receipts (reference) Australasian Drilling (reference) Ca Selects: Drilling Muds 207 (reference) Directory Of Marine Drilling Rigs (reference) Drilling Completion And Plugging Summary (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Modern Marvels:Offshore Oil Drilling (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Drilling

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Photo Album: Drilling

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Contractor drilling holes in sand flat, dropping in fertilizer pellet and then planting. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.		Drilling the ladder into the dam. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
	Core drilling / Lead mining operation near Viburnum, Missouri in the Mark Twain National Forest. Credit: Jerry Sintz.		Black sludge from well, result of drilling soap liguifying organic clay and manganese layers in dolomite soil formationsMeadow Creek stock water wellBurley Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Tim Fuller.
	Drill controls of drilling rig. Credit: Merv Coleman.		Roughnecks working on drilling rig platform. Credit: Merv Coleman.
	Large drilling rig in forested area. Credit: Simontacchi.		Rogue River - Just below Indian Mary Park. CCC Boys drilling powder holes. Credit: Unknown.
	Cantera support rig used for exploration drilling at Crown Jewel Project, Okanogan County, Washington. Credit: Brent Cunderla.		Drilling for coal bed methane near Price, Utah. Credit: Jerry Sintz.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Drilling".

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Drilling wood with an electric drill.		Dentist drilling teeth.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Drilling

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	And money that might have gone to wages went for gas, for guns, for agents and spies, for blacklists, for drilling.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Drilling

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The decay has to be cleaned out by drilling and then the tooth has to be filled. (references)
Business		A company discovering oil is immediately offered a 25-year drilling concession. (references)
		Canada's main exports to Peru include drilling pipes, valves, and gas separation equipment. (references)
		Argentina's strength is in supplying casing, tubing and drilling pipes, and parts for pumps. (references)
Economic History	Azerbaijan	A third mud pump will be installed to increase pump rates and drilling speeds. (references)
	Canada	Promising subsectors include drilling equipment and well-monitoring technology. (references)
	India	In India low drilling recovery rates are a major problem in the oil exploration. (references)
Indigenous People	Peru	Indigenous groups continue to resist encroachment on their native lands by oil exploration and drilling interests. (references)
	Colombia	The U'wa had filed several court challenges to drilling, and succeeded in winning brief delays before appeal courts ruled in favor of the Government's arrangement with Occidental. (references)
	Colombia	The U'wa broke off talks with the Government in September 2000, in response to a ruling by the Government's agrarian reform agency authorizing the state oil company to purchase lands to create a buffer zone around the drilling area, and talks remained suspended during the year. (references)
Political Economy	KUWAIT	Oil companies may apply for tariff exemptions for drilling equipment and certain other machinery, including that for new plants. (references)
Worker Rights	Brazil	According to the Ministry of Labor, the most dangerous industries in the country are logging, mining (including oil drilling), construction, and oil refining. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Drilling

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Art Linkletter	I love Uncle Sam, but I didn't want him to take all my money. So, I founded an oil well drilling. You can write off all of the intangible drilling, which is a big hunk of the money that goes against your income.
Rush Limbaugh	Someone put it well when they said that if it could be proved that drilling in ANWR would end the fear of global warming, save the rain forest, and find the cure for AIDS, the liberal Democrats would still be against it.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Drilling

"Drilling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 61.63% of the time. "Drilling" is used about 331 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	61.63%	204	21,327
Noun (singular)	16.62%	55	45,713
Adjective (general or positive)	13.9%	46	50,285
Noun (proper)	7.55%	25	69,787
Noun (common)	0.3%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	331	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Drilling

The following table summarizes the usage of "drilling" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Drilling	Last name	170	47,619
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Drilling

Country	Name	Country	Name
Canada	AKITA Drilling Ltd	Norway	Petrolia Drilling ASA
USA	Marine Drilling Companies Incorporated
	(more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Drilling

Expressions using "drilling": angle drilling ♦ core drilling ♦ deviated drilling ♦ diamond drilling bit ♦ directional drilling ♦ downhole deviation drilling ♦ drilling bit ♦ drilling clamp ♦ drilling fluid ♦ drilling for ♦ drilling for oil ♦ drilling machine ♦ drilling mud ♦ drilling pipe ♦ drilling platform ♦ drilling report ♦ drilling rig ♦ drilling string ♦ drilling well ♦ jackup drilling platform ♦ Jig drilling ♦ percussion drilling ♦ percussive drilling ♦ radial drilling machine. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "drilling": drilling-rigs, drilling-service.
	Ending with "drilling": oil-drilling.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Drilling

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
drilling	1,117	drilling equipment	54
bending drilling glass grinding	323	laser pill drilling	50
laser drilling	209	laser tablet drilling system	48
well drilling	191	offshore drilling company	47
offshore drilling	148	laser pill drilling system	43
precision drilling	146	drilling machine	40
cutting drilling laser	144	well drilling equipment	38
drilling rig	141	parker drilling	37
drilling laser service	135	oil drilling in alaska	36
oil drilling	135	self drilling screw	36
water well drilling	130	horizontal directional drilling	35
tablet drilling	98	drilling contractor	35
pill drilling	97	drilling fluid	35
directional drilling	88	mining and drilling	34
nabors drilling	75	drilling pcb	33
pharmaceutical tablet drilling	67	b b b b b b b b bending drilling etc glass grinding toronto	32
drift drilling exploration	63	b b b b b b b b bending drilling glass grinding	32
noble drilling	57	b b b b b b b b b b bending drilling glass grinding ipages triad	31
laser tablet drilling	57	deep hole drilling	29
drilling company	55	diamond drilling	28
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Drilling

Language		Translations for "drilling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		stërvitje (coaching, discipline, dressage, drill, exercise, practice, training, workout), shpim (boring, jab, perforation, poke, prick, pricking, puncture, sinking, tingle), ngrënie (consumption, eating, feeding), manovër (maneuver, manoeuvre, stratagem). (various references)

Arabic		‏مناورات (field day), ‏نقب (burrow, burrowing, comb, delve, excavation, fish, mine, piercing, pry, quest, rake, ransack, root, rout out, rummage, scour, scrabble about, scrutinize, sleuth), ‏حفر (bore, burrow, burrowing, dig, digging, digging in, ditch, drill, etch, excavate, excavation, fetch, fossilize, gnaw, grave, hew, inscribe, make a hole in, pick up, pit, plough, rut, scrape, sink), ‏تنقيب (excavations, mining prospect, prospecting, quest), ‏تدريب (coaching, discipline, exercise, practice, schooling, traineeship, training). (various references)

Bulgarian		строева подготовка (drill), упражнение (exercise, practice), сондиране (exploration, probe), редова сеитба, тренировка (drill, exercise, practice, schooling, training, workout), ленен гарбадин, пробиване (boring, break, perforation, pricking, puncture, rupture), памучен гарбадин. (various references)

Chinese		�"�练 (Drilled). (various references)

Czech		vrtání, vojenský výcvik. (various references)

Danish		radsaaning (row seeding), borehuller (boring). (various references)

Dutch		drillen (exercise, practise), rijenzaai (drill, row crop, row seeding, seed drilling), kotteren (boring, drifting), boren (bore, drill). (various references)

Finnish		rivikylvö (row seeding), porareikä (boring), kairausreikä (boring, structural test hole, structure hole, well). (various references)

French		forage (drill hole). (various references)

German		Bohrung (bore, borehole, boring, drill-hole, sinking). (various references)

Greek		γραμμική σπορά (drill, row crop, row seeding, seed drilling), γεώτρηση (borehole), γεωτρήματα (boring), τρύπημα (piercing, puncture, tapping), οπαί γεωτρήσεων (boring). (various references)

Hebrew		תר�'ולת (drill), ק�"יח�" (boring), ק�"וח (bored, drilled), �"תעמלות (exercise, gymnastics, p.e., p.t., training). (various references)

Hungarian		kiképzés (arms drill, drill, indoctrination, shaping, training, training of new recruit), fúrás (bore, boring, drill), gyakorlatozás (drill). (various references)

Indonesian		penggurdian (boring), pengeboran, pemboran. (various references)

Italian		trapanazione (boring), traforo (piercing, tunnel, tunnelling), semina a righe (drill, row crop, row seeding, seed drilling), perforazione (boring, perforation), esercitazione (drill, exercise, practice, training). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		錬成 (training), 練成 (training). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		れ�"せい (binary star, training). (various references)

Korean		교� � (Drill). (various references)

Manx		towley (bore, boring, broach, hole, transfix, undermine), tarrarey (drill), drillal (drill). (various references)

Norwegian		prøveboring (exploratory drilling). (various references)

Pig Latin		illingdray

Portuguese		perfuração (bore, boring, caliber, calibre, cutting, perforation, puncture, rapierthrust). (various references)

Romanian		muştruluialã (dressing), foraj (bore, boring). (various references)

Russian		высверливание, обучение (drill, indoctrination, instruction, learning by insight, nurture, schooling, teaching, tirocinium, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		treniranje (retraining, training), bušenje (boring). (various references)

Spanish		taladrar (bore, drill, Pierce, punch), siembra en líneas (drill, row crop, row seeding, seed drilling), siembra a chorrillo (drill, row crop, row seeding, seed drilling), perforar (bore, drill, drive, hole, perforate, punch, puncture), perforación (boring, perforation, piercing, puncture), baremación (boring), agujero de taladro (boring). (various references)

Swedish		radsådd (row seeding), gymnastik (calisthenics, callisthenics, gym, gymnastics, physical training), borrning (boring), borrhål (borehole, drill-hole). (various references)

Turkish		delme (boring, fenestration, penetration, perforation, piercing, puncture), talim (drill, exercise), sondaj yapma. (various references)

Ukrainian		стройове навчання, свердління (boring), вправа (drill, exercise, gymnastic, practice). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Drilling

Derivations
	Words beginning with "drilling": drillings. (additional references)
	Words ending with "drilling": predrilling, redrilling. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Drilling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brillig, crilling, deroling, Dilling, Dreiklang, Dreilini, dribling, driblling, Drillien, dripling, Drolling, krilling, prilling. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Drilling"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "drilling" (pronounced dri"ling)
5	-r i" l i ng	grilling, rilling, thrilling, trilling.
4	-i" l i ng	billing, chilling, distilling, filling, fulfilling, hilling, instilling, killing, milling, Pilling, quilling, Schilling, shilling, skilling, spilling, swilling, Tilling, unwilling, willing, yearling.
3	-l i ng	ailing, ambling, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, throttling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yelling, yodeling.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Drilling

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-g-i-i-l-l-n-r"
	-1 letter: dirling, rilling.
	-2 letters: idling, ridgil, riding, riling.
	-3 letters: drill, grill, grind, indri, iring, rigid.
	-4 letters: dill, ding, dirl, gild, gill, gird, girl, girn, grid, grin, irid, ling, liri, nidi, nill, rill, rind, ring.
	-5 letters: dig, din, gid, gin, ill, lid, lin, nil, rid, rig, rin.
	Words containing the letters "d-g-i-i-l-l-n-r"
	+1 letter: drillings.
	+2 letters: drivelling, redialling, redrilling.
	+3 letters: drizzlingly, predrilling.
	+4 letters: bedrivelling, billboarding, redistilling.
	+5 letters: bewilderingly, radiolabeling.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.