drill

verb · nounA2

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Động từ

verb
V_es/s
drills
V_ing/Gerund
drilling
V_ed/pp
drilled
  1. 1.

    (transitive)To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).

    Drill a small hole to start the screw in the right direction.

    Đồng nghĩa: excavate, bore, gouge

  2. 2.

    (intransitive)To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.

    They drilled daily to learn the routine exactly.

  3. 3.

    (ergative)To cause to drill (practice); to train, especially in military arts.

    The sergeant was up by 6:00 every morning, drilling his troops.

  4. 4.

    (transitive)To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.

    The instructor drilled into us the importance of reading the instructions.

  5. 5.

    (figuratively, intransitive)(intransitive, figurative) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level

    Drill deeper and you may find the underlying assumptions faulty.

  6. 6.

    (transitive)To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power.

    He drilled down the court and made a three-pointer.

    He drilled the ball to his teammate.

  7. 7.

    (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.

  8. 8.

    (slang, vulgar)To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.

    Đồng nghĩa: plow, poke, root, shaft, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have, know, lie by, lie with, love, mount, occupy, penetrate, season, seduce, sleep with, take, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Informal and slang terms, ball, bang, bauf, beep, be with, bone, boff, boink, bonk, boom-boom, dick, diddle, dig out, do, doink, drill, eff, expletive deleted, fill, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go with, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hump, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, love up, make, nail, plough, plug, poke, pork, pound, prig, pump, ravage, ream, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, see to, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, swive, tap, tup, wap

  9. 9.

    (slang)To shoot; to kill by shooting.

    Đồng nghĩa: drill up

  10. 10.

    (transitive)To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.

  11. 11.

    (transitive)To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.

    waters drilled through a sandy stratum

  12. 12.

    (dialectal, obsolete, transitive)(transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To protract, lengthen out; fritter away, spend (time) aimlessly.

    Quit purposely drilling out the time hoping that someone else will do your chores.

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
drills
  1. 1.

    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.

    Wear safety glasses when operating an electric drill.

  2. 2.

    The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.

    Use a drill with a wire brush to remove any rust or buildup.

  3. 3.

    An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.

    fire drill

    disaster drill

    emergency drill

    Regular drills can ensure that everyone knows how to exit safely in an emergency.

  4. 4.

    A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.

    At today's practice, the football team performed a variety of goalkeeping drills.

  5. 5.

    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.

  6. 6.

    (uncountable)(uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.

  7. 7.

    (countable)(countable, music) A single performance of drill music.

  8. 8.

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

  9. 9.

    A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.

  10. 10.

    A row of seed sown in a furrow.

  11. 11.

    (obsolete)A small trickling stream; a rill.

  12. 12.

    An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle Dutch drillen (bore, move in a circle).

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