Drill Meaning and Definition

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What is the definition Drill? What is its meaning in the dictionary? Example sentences, Derivations, Words ending with Drill, How to pronounce? Synonyms, Antonyms, Words starting with Drill, Related sentences and more...

Word: Drill

How to pronounce: drɪl

Noun

Definitions:

1. A hand tool, power tool, or machine with a rotating cutting tip or reciprocating hammer or chisel, used for making holes.

Example sentences: "Most of the project requires basic wood-working tools - a circular saw, a saber saw, an electric drill, a hammer, and a nail set."

2. Instruction or training in military exercises.

Example sentences: "Parade-ground drill"

3. A predatory mollusk that bores into the shells of other mollusks in order to feed on the soft tissue.

Example sentences: "It must still run a gauntlet of periwinkles, oyster drills, and mud and basket snails, most of which leave egg masses that cover any undeveloped real estate on the shell."

Transitive verb

Definitions:

1. Produce (a hole) in something by or as if by boring with a drill.

Example sentences: "Drill holes through the tiles for the masonry pins"

2. Subject (someone) to military training exercises.

Example sentences: "A sergeant was drilling new recruits"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A machine that makes small furrows, sows seed in them, and then covers the sown seed.

Example sentences: "The seed can be broadcast and harrowed, lightly disked, or seeded with a grain drill."

Transitive verb

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