Drills Meaning and Definition

Word: Drills

How to pronounce: drɪl

Noun

Definitions:

1. A 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 mollusc that bores into the shells of other molluscs 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."

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 which makes small furrows, sows seed in them, and then covers the seed with earth.

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

Verb

Definitions:

1. Sow (seed) with a drill.

Example sentences: "Crops drilled in autumn"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A dark brown baboon with a short tail and a naked blue or purple rump, found in the rainforests of West Africa.

Example sentences: "Drills once congregated by the thousands in the rainforest. Now they are among the rarest primates."

Noun

Definitions:

1. A coarse twilled cotton or linen fabric.

Example sentences: "Sturdy clothes in drill, denim and linen"

Synonyms:

planter

seeder

hammer drill

punch

chisel

puncher

perforator

rock drill

hand drill

gun

drill rig

drilling rig

drilling machine

dental drill

exercise

workout

practice

practice session

boring bit

auger

gimlet

drilling bit

boring

drilling operation

hole

bore

pierce

sow

seed

grind

Derivations:

drilling

driller

drilled

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Drills in Other Languages...

Spanish: Taladro

German: Bohren

French: Forage

Italian: Trapano

Turkish: Matkap