drill
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
entertainment
games
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
Etymology: From Middle Dutch drillen (“bore, move in a circle”).
Inflected forms:
form: drills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: drilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: drilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: drilled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: drills
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Drill a small hole to start the screw in the right direction.
gloss: To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They drilled daily to learn the routine exactly.
On his return the team that faced Hull City had been reconfigured. Moses wasn’t overly drilled, just told he would be playing right wing-back, that Conte had seen enough to know.
gloss: To cause to drill (practice); to train, especially in military arts.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: The sergeant was up by 6:00 every morning, drilling his troops.
He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers.
Now I want you to take Vallett in hand and drill him stiff with everything that has to do with Tilehurst and Tapsfield.
gloss: To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The instructor drilled into us the importance of reading the instructions.
gloss: To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Drill deeper and you may find the underlying assumptions faulty.
gloss: To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He drilled down the court and made a three-pointer.
He drilled the ball to his teammate.
He did get their attention when he drilled the ball dead center into the hole for an opening birdie.
Without compromising he drilled the ball home, leaving Dynamos' ill-fated keeper diving for fresh air.
Bolton were then just inches from taking the lead, but the dangerous-looking Taylor drilled just wide after picking up a loose ball following Jose Bosingwa's poor attempted clearance.
gloss: To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
pos: verb
gloss: To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
pos: verb
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: Everytime^([sic]) when I rape your daughter. Your beautiful faces expressing how it hurts. Always while I drill her c*nt. I want to see you dead.
Guess I'll be drilling her butt
gloss: To shoot; to kill by shooting.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: ‘Matthew Garth woulda let Tom Dunstan drill him insteada drawin’ against him.’
gloss: A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
pos: noun
examples: Wear safety glasses when operating an electric drill.
gloss: The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
pos: noun
examples: Use a drill with a wire brush to remove any rust or buildup.
gloss: An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
pos: noun
examples: fire drill
disaster drill
emergency drill
Regular drills can ensure that everyone knows how to exit safely in an emergency.
“[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”
gloss: A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
pos: noun
examples: At today's practice, the football team performed a variety of goalkeeping drills.
gloss: Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx and others, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that make holes in the shells of their prey.
pos: noun
gloss: A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Though the young women of Chicago’s drill scene can be as rowdy as their male counterparts, they’re also more diverse in subject matter and point to a possible way forward.
New York City mayor Eric Adams held a summit with a group of drill rappers on Tuesday night and clarified he doesn’t actually want to ban their music, days after he appeared to blame the music scene for the recent shooting deaths of two young New York rappers and suggested drill videos be pulled from the internet.
Between ticky off-kilter rhythms and otherworldly digital voice processing, the experimental hip-hop genres trap and drill have delivered radical hymns from alien planets.
gloss: A single performance of drill music.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: These bells are alarmin’
Point blank and you missed your target
They go shooting range and their drills are garbage
Related words: drill bit
twist drill
drill press
drill down
Derived words: drillability
drillable
drill and practice
drilldown
drill down
drill in
drill out
drill through
predrill
redrill
self-drilling
undrilled
active shooter drill
air drill
antidrill
bench drill
Bioko drill
Birkenhead drill
bow drill
breast drill
Brooklyn drill
carbon monoxide drill
chain drill
Chinese fire drill
churn drill
close order drill
close-order drill
code red drill
combi drill
combination drill
core drill
dental drill
dentist's drill
Denver drill
drill and bass
drill and kill
drill bow
drill core
drilldo
drill floor
drill ground
drill hall
drillhead
drill hoe
drill instructor
drill jig
drillmaster
drill 'n' bass
Drillock
drill pipe
drillproof
drill rig
drill sergeant
drillship
drillstock
drill string
drop-drill
earthquake drill
eggbeater drill
electrodrill
extended-order drill
extended order drill
failure drill
finger drill
fire drill
hammer drill
hand drill
impact drill
imperial drill
Irish drill
kerb drill
know the drill
match drill
microdrill
mill drill
monkey drill
Mozambique drill
muster drill
New York drill
Oklahoma drill
pedestal drill
percussion drill
pillar drill
pin drill
pneumatic drill
power drill
pump drill
ratchet drill
rock drill
sack drill
safety drill
seed drill
shot-drill
subdrill
sword drill
tap drill
this is not a drill
thrill
tip drill
tornado drill
traverse drill
turbodrill
twindrills
UK drill
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: لقمة ثقب
roman: luqmat thuqb
lang: Bulgarian
word: бурги́я
roman: burgíja
lang: Dutch
word: boor
lang: Finnish
word: istukka
lang: French
word: chignole
lang: Galician
word: broca
lang: German
word: Drill
lang: Hungarian
word: fúrófej
lang: Indonesian
word: mata bor
lang: Italian
word: punta
lang: Macedonian
word: бу́ргија
roman: búrgija
lang: Māori
word: niho
lang: Polish
word: wiertło
lang: Portuguese
word: broca
lang: Russian
word: сверло́
roman: sverló
lang: Russian
word: пёрка
roman: pjórka
lang: Russian
word: бур
roman: bur
lang: Swedish
word: borr
lang: Welsh
word: dril