different between bur vs drill

English

Alternative forms

• burr

Etymology

From Middle English burre, from a North Germanic language, such as Danish burre (“bur, burdock”). See also burr. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

bur (plural burs)

1. A rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants.
2. Any of several plants having such husks.
3. A rotary cutting implement having a selection of variously shaped heads.
4. Alternative form of burr (“small piece of material”).

Translations

Anagrams

• RUB, bru, rub

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse búr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?r/, [b?u????], [b?u???]
• Rhymes: -ur

Noun

bur n (singular definite buret, plural indefinite bure)

1. cage

Inflection

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse burr, from Proto-Germanic *buriz. Cognate with Old English byre (“descendant, son”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??r/
• Rhymes: -??r

Noun

bur m (genitive singular burs, nominative plural burir)

1. (poetic) son

Declension

The accusative plural buru also exists, but is only used in the phrase eiga börn og buru.

Derived terms

• -bur

Istro-Romanian

Etymology

From Latin bonus, from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dw-enos, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”).

Adjective

bur m (feminine bur?, neuter buro)

1. good

Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch boor (“drill”).

Noun

bur

1. drill

Latvian

Verb

bur

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of burt
2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of burt
3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of burt
4. 2nd person singular imperative form of burt
5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of burt
6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of burt

Maay

Noun

bur

1. flour

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse búr.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [b????]

Noun

bur n (definite singular buret, indefinite plural bur, definite plural bura or burene)

1. cage
2. goal (sports)

Derived terms

• burhøne, burhøns

References

“bur” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse búr.

Noun

bur n (definite singular buret, indefinite plural bur, definite plural bura)

1. cage
2. goal (sports)

Etymology 2

Verb

bur

1. present of bu

References

“bur” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *b?raz. Cognate with Old Saxon b?r, Old High German b?r (German Bauer (“birdcage”)), Old Norse búr (Swedish bur).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?r/

Noun

b?r m

1. private chamber, room

Descendants

• Middle English: bour, boure
  • English: bower
  • Scots: bour

Old Frisian

Noun

b?r m

1. a peasant, farmer

Inflection

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *b?raz, whence also Old English b?r, Old Norse búr.

Noun

b?r m

1. peasant
2. quarters

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: b?r
  • German: Bauer (“birdcage”)

Old Saxon

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *b?raz, whence also Old English b?r, Old Norse búr.

Noun

b?r m

1. neighbour
2. inhabitant

Descendants

• Low German: Buer, Boer

Etymology 2

Same as the masculine noun.

Noun

b?r n

1. dwelling

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse búr, from Proto-Germanic *b?raz.

Noun

bur m

1. dwelling, residence
2. storehouse
3. room, chamber
4. cage

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: bur

Portuguese

Noun

bur m, f (plural bures)

1. Archaic form of bóer.

Romagnol

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *burius, compare Italian buio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?r/

Noun

bur m

1. darkness (lack of light)
   • December 2007, Nevio Spadoni, Guido Bianchi, Urazion in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 9:

     Te, che t’vid / la luš int e’ mi bur, […]

     You, who sees / the light in my darkness, […]

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish b?r, from Old Norse búr, from Proto-Germanic *b?raz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??r/
• Rhymes: -??r

Noun

bur c

1. a cage
2. (slang) a prison, a jail, an arrest

   att sitta i buren

   to be imprisoned

Declension

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ?????? (búryj).

Adjective

bur

1. brown

Inflection

Noun

bur

1. brown

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /b??r/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /bi?r/

Adjective

bur

1. Soft mutation of pur.

Mutation

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse búr, from Proto-Germanic *b?raz.

Noun

bur n

1. (hunting) cage for catching birds
2. hovel

Derived terms

• fåtabeor
• stabur

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: dr?l, IPA^(key): /d??l/, [d???]
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

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

Verb

drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)

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

   Synonyms: excavate, bore, gouge; see also Thesaurus:make a hole

2. (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
3. (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
   • 1859, Thomas Macaulay, Life of Frederick the Great

     He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers.

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

5. (intransitive) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level

6. (transitive) To hit or kick with a lot of power.
7. (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
8. (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.

   Synonyms: plow, poke, root, shaft; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

   • 2010, MasseMord, Masshealing Masskilling

     Everytime 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.

   • 2012, SwizZz, Flu Shot

     Guess I'll be drilling her butt

Translations

Noun

drill (plural drills)

1. A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.

2. The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.

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

   • Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills.

4. Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that drill holes in the shells of other animals.
5. (uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.

Wikispecies

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:drill.

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

• drill bit
• twist drill
• drill press
• drill down

Etymology 2

Perhaps the same as Etymology 3; compare German Rille which can also mean "small furrow".

Noun

drill (plural drills)

1. An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
2. A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
3. A row of seed sown in a furrow.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)

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

Translations

Etymology 3

Uncertain. Compare the same sense of trill, and German trillen, drillen. Attestation predates Etymology 1.

Noun

drill (plural drills)

1. (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.

Translations

Verb

drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)

1. (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
   • 1615, George Sandys, The Relation of a Journey begun an. Dom. 1610, in four books

     Now it is a great square profunditie ; greene , and uneven at the bottome : into which a barren spring doch drill from betweene the stones of the North - ward wall

Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English drillen, origin unknown.

Verb

drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.

   Synonyms: entice, lead on, lure
2. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
   • August 28, 1731, letter by Jonathan Swift to John Gay and Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry

     This cursed accident hath drilled away the whole summer.

Translations

Etymology 5

Probably of African origin; compare mandrill.

Noun

drill (plural drills)

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

Translations

Further reading

• Mandrillus leucophaeus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mandrillus leucophaeus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Mandrillus leucophaeus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 6

From German Drillich (“denim, canvas, drill”).

Noun

drill (countable and uncountable, plural drills)

1. A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.

Synonyms

• chino

Derived terms

• khaki drill, KD

Translations

French

Etymology

English drill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?il/

Noun

drill m (plural drills)

1. drill (tool)

Related terms

• driller

Further reading

• “drill” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Verb

drill

1. singular imperative of drillen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of drillen

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

drill

1. imperative of drille

Westrobothnian

Verb

drill (preterite drillä)

1. (transitive) twist, turn