drill

Meanings

Verb

• To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill .
• To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
• To cause to drill ; to train in military arts.
• To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
• To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
• To hit or kick with a lot of power.
• To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
• To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
• To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
• To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
• To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.
• To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.

Noun

• A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
• The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
• An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
• Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx (genus), especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea (species)), that drill holes in the shells of other animals.
• A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
• An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
• A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
• A row of seed sown in a furrow.
• A small trickling stream; a rill.
• An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus (species), similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
• A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.

Related

Similar words

• chino

Origin

• From Middle Dutch drillen ("bore, move in a circle").
• Perhaps the same as Etymology 3; compare German Rille which can also mean "small furrow".
• Uncertain. Compare the same sense of trill, and German trillen, drillen. Attestation predates Etymology 1.
• From Middle English drillen, origin unknown.
• Probably of African origin; compare mandrill.
• From German Drillich ("denim, canvas, drill").