Drill

[drɪl]

Definition

(noun.) (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms.

(noun.) similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored.

(noun.) a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows).

(verb.) train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons.

(verb.) undergo military training or do military exercises.

(verb.) learn by repetition; 'We drilled French verbs every day'; 'Pianists practice scales'.

(verb.) teach by repetition.

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Definition

(v. t.) To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.

(v. t.) To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline.

(v. i.) To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.

(n.) An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press.

(n.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.

(n.) Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.

(n.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea.

(v. t.) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.

(v. t.) To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.

(v. t.) To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.

(v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.

(v. i.) To trickle.

(v. i.) To sow in drills.

(n.) A small trickling stream; a rill.

(n.) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.

(n.) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.

(n.) A row of seed sown in a furrow.

(n.) A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).

(n.) Same as Drilling.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Pierce, perforate, bore.[2]. Instruct, exercise, teach, train.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Teach, exercise, instruct, train, ordinate, discipline

ANT:Confuse, disarrange, disorder, misinstruct, miseducate, dishabituate

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Definition

n. a species of baboon found in Western Africa resembling the mandrill but smaller.

v.t. to bore pierce: to make with a drill: to exercise soldiers pupils &c.—to sow seeds &c. in rows.—n. an instrument for boring stone metal teeth or hard substances (not wood) actuated by a kind of bow by a brace or otherwise: a large boring instrument used in mining: a ridge with seed or growing plants on it (turnips potatoes &c.): the plants in such a row: the machine for sowing the seed in drill-husbandry.—ns. Drill′-bar′row a grain-drill driven by hand; Drill′-har′row a harrow for working between drills; Drill′-hus′bandry the method of sowing seed in drills or rows; Drill′ing-machine′ Drill′ing-lathe Drill′-press machines for boring with a drill or drills; Drill′-mas′ter one who teaches drill one who trains in anything esp. in a mechanical manner; Drill′-plough a plough for sowing grain in drills; Drill′-ser′geant a sergeant who drills soldiers.

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