Rock Drill

  

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Rock Drill

Definition: Rock Drill

Rock Drill

Noun

1. A drill for penetrating rock.

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


Specialty Definitions: Rock Drill

DomainDefinitions

Building & Civil Engineering

A type of drill which grinds rock into small particles through the abrasive effect of a bit that rotates in the hole ; a machine(as a hammer drill or piston drill)for making holes in rock. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. A machine for boring relatively short holes in rock for blasting purposes. It may be a sinker, jackhammer, drifter, or stoper. See also:percussive drill; rotary drill. Syn:Waugh dril b. A roller bit. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Rock Drill

Synonyms: bore bit (n), borer (n), stone drill (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Rock Drill

English words defined with "rock drill": bore bit, borercore, cross bitstar drill, stone drill, straight flute, straight-fluted drill. (references)
Specialty definitions using "rock drill": abrasive formation, air leg, air-drill operator, air-hammer operator, automatic feed, autostoperbar drill, bar rig, bench cut, bit life, BLASTER HELPER, bolting-machine operator, bug dust, Burleighcalyx drill, cank, chop ahead, churn shot drill, cone rock bit, controlled footage, core grouting, Coromant cut, crossarm, cruciform bitdiamondiferous, drill ahead, drill core, drillability, drilling rate, drilling time, drill-sharpener operator, drill-split tool, dummy maker, dust collector, dust trapelectric rotary drillfeed pressure, footage per bit, forged bit, full-face firing, fusion-piercing drillgeotomography, gun perforatorhammer drill, hand hammer drill, hot miller, hurdy-gurdy drill, hydraulic drillJACKHAMMER OPERATOR, jet piercingknox systemlost core, LumniteMorisette expansion reamer, museum preparator, MUSEUM TECHNICIANNicholls' techniqueoil-well gun-perforator operator, overburden drillingpenetration speed, percussion drilling, percussive drilling, PERFORATOR OPERATOR, OIL WELL, pick machine, plug-drill operator, powder carrierQUARRY PLUG-AND-FEATHER DRILLERraise driller, ravelly ground, rock splitter, ROCK-DRILL OPERATOR II, ROOF BOLTER, rotary drill motor, rotary-drill cuttingsscrewfeed, sharp stone, shooter's helper, shot-drilled shaft, shothole, sidewall core, single jack, sinker drill, solid bit, sonic drilling, spudding bit, starting barrel, stope board, stope driller, striking hammer, submarine workerthermal boring, TOOL DRESSERvertical auger drillwater leyner, wedge cut, wet drilling. (references)

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Photo Album: Rock Drill

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

New Idria, California. Drilling blast holes with a compressed-air rock drill in one of the workings of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company, where cinnabar ore, containing mercury, is obtained. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rock Drill

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

rock drill

37

rock drill bit

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Rock Drill

Language Translations for "rock drill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

rotationsbor (abrasion drill, boring machine, percussive drill, rotary drill), stenbor (abrasion drill, auger, boring machine, percussive drill, rotary drill). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

rotsboor (abrasion drill, boring machine, percussive drill, rotary drill), draaiboortoestel (abrasion drill, boring machine, percussive drill, rotary drill), draaiboormachine (abrasion drill, boring machine, percussive drill, rotary drill). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kierukkapora (abrasion drill, boring machine, percussive drill, rotary drill). (various references)

   

French

  

perforatrice rotative (rotary drill). (various references)

   

German

  

Reibungsbohrer (abrasion drill, boring machine, percussive drill, rotary drill), Gesteinsbohrmaschine (abrasion drill, boring machine, percussive drill, rotary drill), Drehbohrmaschine (abrasion drill, boring machine, percussive drill, rotary drill), Drehbohrer (abrasion drill, boring machine, percussive drill, rotary drill). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

περιστροφικόν γεωτρύπανον (abrasion drill, boring machine, percussive drill, rotary drill). (various references)

   

Italian

  

perforatrice rotativa (abrasion drill, boring machine, percussive drill, rotary drill), perforatrice a rotazione (abrasion drill, boring machine, percussive drill, rotary drill). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

鑿岩機 , 削岩機 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

さくが"き. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ockray illdray

   

Portuguese

  

perfuradora rotativa (abrasion drill, boring machine, percussive drill, rotary drill). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

perforadora rotatoria (abrasion drill, boring machine, percussive drill, rotary drill), perforadora rotativa (abrasion drill, boring machine, percussive drill, rotary drill). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

rotationsborrmaskin (abrasion drill, boring machine, percussive drill, rotary drill), skärborrmaskin (abrasion drill, boring machine, percussive drill, rotary drill). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kaya matkabı (jumper), kaya delme makinesi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Rock Drill

Misspellings

"Rock Drill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rockdrill. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Rock Drill

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-i-k-l-l-o-r-r"

-2 letters: rollick.

-4 letters: dolci, drill, droll, krill.

-5 letters: clod, coil, coir, cold, cord, cork, dick, dill, diol, dirk, dirl, dock, doll, dork, dorr, idol, kill, kilo, lick, lido, loci, lock, lord, odic, rick, rill, rock, roil, roll.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Rock Drill


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 6F 63 6B      44 72 69 6C 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01101111 01100011 01101011 00100000 01000100 01110010 01101001 01101100 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#111 &#99 &#107 &#32 &#68 &#114 &#105 &#108 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 006F 0063 006B      0044 0072 0069 006C 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5281697723884757878

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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Turks, turk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, Turcu, турски, турски език, Turko, 土耳其, 土耳其語 , tureètina, turecký, turkist, turkkilainen, turque, turc, Turksk, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türk, türkçe, турецька мова, турецький, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ, for Turkish;