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drill

1  [dril]
–noun
1. Machinery, Building Trades.
a. a shaftlike tool with two or more cutting edges for making holes in firm materials, esp. by rotation.
b. a tool, esp. a hand tool, for holding and operating such a tool.
2. Military.
a. training in formal marching or other precise military or naval movements.
b. an exercise in such training: gun drill.
3. any strict, methodical, repetitive, or mechanical training, instruction, or exercise: a spelling drill.
4. the correct or customary manner of proceeding.
5. Also called snail bore. a gastropod, Urosalpinx cinera, that bores holes in shellfish, as oysters.
–verb (used with object)
6. to pierce or bore a hole in (something).
7. to make (a hole) by boring.
8. Military. to instruct and exercise in formation marching and movement, in the carrying of arms during formal marching, and in the formal handling of arms for ceremonies and guard work.
9. to impart (knowledge) by strict training, discipline, or repetition.
–verb (used without object)
10. to pierce or bore something with or as with a drill.
11. to go through exercise in military or other training.
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Origin:
1605–15; < D dril (n.), drillen (v.)

Related forms:
drill⋅a⋅ble, adjective
drill⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
driller, noun

Synonyms:
3. See exercise.
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drill

2  [dril]
–noun
1. a small furrow made in the soil in which to sow seeds.
2. a row of seeds or plants thus sown.
3. a machine for sowing in rows and for covering the seeds when sown.
–verb (used with object)
4. to sow (seed) in drills.
5. to sow or plant (soil, a plot of ground, etc.) in drills.
–verb (used without object)
6. to sow seed in drills.
Origin:
1720–30; cf. drill rill, G Rille furrow, rillen to groove

Related forms:
driller, noun

drill

3  [dril]
–noun
a strong, twilled cotton fabric.
Origin:
1735–45; short for drilling 2

drill

4  [dril]
–noun
a large, baboonlike monkey, Mandrillus leucophaeus, of western Africa, similar to the related mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored: now endangered.
Origin:
1635–45; of obscure orig.; cf. mandrill
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drill 1   (drĭl)   
n.  

    1. An implement with cutting edges or a pointed end for boring holes in hard materials, usually by a rotating abrasion or repeated blows; a bit.

    2. The hand-operated or hand-powered holder for this implement.

    3. A loud, harsh noise made by or as if by a powered tool of this kind.

    4. Disciplined, repetitious exercise as a means of teaching and perfecting a skill or procedure.

    5. A task or exercise for teaching a skill or procedure by repetition: conducted an air-raid drill; a drill for learning the multiplication tables.

    1. Disciplined, repetitious exercise as a means of teaching and perfecting a skill or procedure.

    2. A task or exercise for teaching a skill or procedure by repetition: conducted an air-raid drill; a drill for learning the multiplication tables.

  3. The training of soldiers in marching and the manual of arms.

  4. Any of various marine gastropod mollusks, chiefly of the genus Urosalpinx, that bore holes into the shells of bivalve mollusks. U. cinera is destructive to oysters.

v.   drilled, drill·ing, drills

v.   tr.

    1. To make a hole in (a hard material) with a drill: a bit for drilling masonry.

    2. To make (a hole) with or as if with a drill: drills holes in trees with its chisellike bill.

    3. To instruct thoroughly by repetition in a skill or procedure: drill pupils in grammar.

    4. To infuse knowledge of or skill in by repetitious instruction. See Synonyms at teach.

  2. To strike or hit sharply: The batter drilled a single through the infield.

    1. To instruct thoroughly by repetition in a skill or procedure: drill pupils in grammar.

    2. To infuse knowledge of or skill in by repetitious instruction. See Synonyms at teach.

  4. To train (soldiers) in marching and the manual of arms.

v.   intr.

  1. To make a hole with or as if with a drill.

  2. To perform a training exercise.


[Obsolete Dutch dril, from drillen, to bore, from Middle Dutch drillen; see terə-1 in Indo-European roots.]
drill'er n.
drill 2   (drĭl)   
n.  

  1. A shallow trench or furrow in which seeds are planted.

  2. A row of planted seeds.

  3. A machine or implement for planting seeds in holes or furrows.

tr.v.   drilled, drill·ing, drills

  1. To sow (seeds) in rows.

  2. To plant (a field) in drills.


[Perhaps from drill, rill, from Middle English drille, sip.]
drill 3   (drĭl)   
n.  Durable cotton or linen twill of varying weights, generally used for work clothes.

[Short for drilling, alteration of German Drillich, from Middle High German drilich, threefold, fabric woven with three threads, from Old High German drilīh, alteration (influenced by drī, three, and -līh, adj. suff.) of Latin trilīx, triple-twilled; see trellis.]
drill 4   (drĭl)   
n.  A baboon (Papio leucophaeus) of western Africa, related to and resembling the mandrill.

[Possibly of West African origin.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

drill  (1)
1611 (n.), 1649 (v.), from Du. dril, drille "a hole, instrument for boring holes," from drillen "to bore (a hole), turn around, whirl," from P.Gmc. *threljanan. Sense of "to instruct in military exercise" is 1622 (also in Du. drillen and in the Dan. and Ger. cognates), probably from the notion of troops "turning" in maneuvers. Ext. sense of "the agreed-upon procedure" is from 1940.

drill  (2)
"small furrow," 1727; also "machine for sowing seeds" (1731), from obsolete drill "rill, trickling stream" (1641), of unknown origin, perhaps connected to drill (1).

drill  (3)
"W. African baboon species," 1644, perhaps from a native word.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 1drill
Pronunciation: 'dril
Function: transitive verb
: to make a hole in with a drill drilled the toothfor a filling> drill intransitive senses
: to make a hole with a drill drilling>

Main Entry: 2drill
Function: noun
: an instrument with an edged or pointed end for making holes in hard substances (as bones or teeth) by revolving
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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