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drill

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

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repetition

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin repetitionem (accusative singular of repetitio; cf. French répétition). Doublet of repetitio.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??p??t???n/

Noun

repetition (countable and uncountable, plural repetitions)

  1. The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
    • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
  2. (weightlifting): The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion. A group of repetitions is a set.
    Synonym: rep

Synonyms

  • (act of repeating): See Thesaurus:repetition
  • (instance of repeating): recurrence, reiteration; see also Thesaurus:reoccurrence
Related terms
  • repetitious
Translations
See also
  • have seen this movie

Etymology 2

re- +? petition

Alternative forms

  • re-petition

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??i?p??t???n/

Verb

repetition (third-person singular simple present repetitions, present participle repetitioning, simple past and past participle repetitioned)

  1. To petition again.
    • 2011, Anneke Campbell, Thomas Lizney, Be the Change (page 7)
      The group went through several rounds at different courts, petitioning and repetitioning, losing again and again.

Anagrams

  • petitioner

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin repet?ti?.

Noun

repetition c

  1. repetition; the act of repeating
  2. rehearsal

Declension

Derived terms

  • generalrepetition

Related terms

  • repetera

Further reading

  • repetition in Svensk ordbok.

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