different between drill vs jackhammer

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

English

Noun

jackhammer (plural jackhammers)

1. A portable percussive power tool that combines a hammer and chisel used to drill or break hard matter, for instance rock or concrete.

Synonyms

• pneumatic drill (British)

Translations

Verb

jackhammer (third-person singular simple present jackhammers, present participle jackhammering, simple past and past participle jackhammered)

1. (intransitive) To use a jackhammer.
   • 1985, Don DeLillo, White Noise, Penguin, 1986, Chapter 33, p. 254,^[1]

     Early the next day a crew came to fix the street. Vernon was out there at once, watching them jackhammer and haul the asphalt […]

2. (transitive) To break (something) using a jackhammer.
   • 1991, Peter Laufer, Iron Curtain Rising, San Francisco: Mercury House, Chapter 9, p. 171,^[2]

     The foundations for the barrier had been jackhammered away; the piles of broken concrete were just left alongside the road.

   • 2002, Emily Schultz, “Foam” in Black Coffee Night, Toronto: Insomniac Press, p. 12,^[3]

     In the morning, the street is being jackhammered up.

3. (transitive) To form (something) using a jackhammer.
   • 1944, Ernie Pyle, Brave Men, New York: Henry Holt, Chapter 6, p. 69,^[4]

     Small ledges had been jackhammered at each end of the crater and timbers bolted into them, forming abutments of the bridge that was to come.

   • 1988, Scott C. Davis, The World of Patience Gromes: Making and Unmaking a Black Community, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, Chapter 3, p. 49,^[5]

     Richmond already spent tax money on an engineering department whose employees parked their trucks in the street, jackhammered holes in the pavement, and repaired storm sewers […]

   • 2009, Kage Baker, The Empress of Mars, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Chapter 27, p. 258,^[6]

     He was standing at a work table he’d jackhammered from a boulder, placidly sculpting a rose on its work surface.

4. (intransitive, figuratively) To move like a jackhammer.
   • 1977, Betsy Haynes, The Ghost of the Gravestone Hearth, Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Chapter 2, p. 20,^[7]

     […] a bolt of lightning jackhammered across the sky, interrupting his dream.

   • 2003, Beverly Barton, Grace under Fire, New York: Silhouette, Chapter 16, pp. 218-219,^[8]

     When he jackhammered into her, she clutched the bedspread and braced herself for the onslaught.

   • 2010, Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile, New York: William Morrow, Chapter 7, p. 69,^[9]

     His left knee jackhammered under the desk, his right hand patted a steady bongo beat on the top.

   1. (of the heart or pulse) To beat hard, to pound.
      • 1995, Margaret Wild, Beast, New York: Scholastic, Chapter 2, p. 7,^[10]

        […] he lay rigid, his heart jackhammering, telling himself that there was nothing out there, nothing […]

      • 2002, Tom Piccirilli, The Night Class, New York: Leisure Books, Chapter 1, p. 7,^[11]

        The paranoia came on pretty damn strong for this early in the morning, his high blood pressure—160 over 90 at twenty-two—jackhammering in his wrists, his thoughts caterwauling beneath the moment.

5. (transitive, figuratively) To move (something) like a jackhammer.
   • 1999, Dean Koontz, False Memory, New York: Bantam, 2000, Chapter 68, p. 611,^[12]

     He […] drew his knees toward his chest as far as the cramped space would allow, and jackhammered his feet into the forward wall of the trunk, which was formed by the backseat of the car.

   • 2006, Danielle Trussoni, Falling through the Earth, New York: Henry Holt, Chapter 4, p. 44,^[13]

     Then, before the lumberjack had a chance to react, Dad grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and jackhammered his head into the bar.

6. (transitive, figuratively) To strike (something) repeatedly with force, to pound.
   • 1966, “Rolling Thunder,” Time, 15 April, 1966,^[14]

     Guam-based B-52 bombers, newly modified to haul 60,000 lbs. of bombs each, jackhammered a Viet Cong radio and communications center 35 miles northeast of Saigon.

   • 1985, Andrew Coburn, Sweetheart, London: Secker & Warburg, Chapter 20, p. 197,^[15]

     He didn’t make love to her; he jackhammered her.

   • 1997, Richard Flanagan, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, New York: Grove, 2014, Chapter 78,^[16]

     […] the thought jackhammered his heart and mind.

Further reading

• jackhammer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia