different between drill vs stab

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: st?b, IPA^(key): /stæb/
• Hyphenation: stab
• Rhymes: -æb

Etymology 1

First attested in Scottish English (compare Scots stob, stobbe, stabb (“a pointed stick or stake; a thrust with a pointed weapon”)), from Middle English stabbe (“a stab”), probably a variant of Middle English stob, stub, stubbe (“pointed stick, stake, thorn, stub, stump”), from Old Norse stobbi, stubbi, cognate with Old English stybb. Cognate with Middle Dutch stobbe.

Supposed by some to derive from Scottish Gaelic stob (“to prick, to prod, to push, to thrust”); supposed by others to be from a Scots word.

Noun

stab (plural stabs)

1. An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
2. A wound made by stabbing.
3. Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
4. (informal) An attempt.

   I'll give this thankless task a stab.

5. Criticism.
6. (music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.

   a horn stab

7. A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

stab (third-person singular simple present stabs, present participle stabbing, simple past and past participle stabbed)

1. (transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.

2. (transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.

3. (intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a pointed object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).

   • None shall dare / With shortened sword to stab in closer war.

4. (intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).

5. (transitive, figuratively) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.

6. (transitive) To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
7. (transitive) To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.

Derived terms

• stabbee
• stabber

Translations

References

• stab in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• stab at OneLook Dictionary Search

Etymology 2

Clipping of stabilizer or stabiliser.

Noun

stab (plural stabs)

1. (aviation, slang) The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.

Etymology 3

Adjective

stab (not comparable)

1. (industrial relations) Clipping of established.
   • 1893, Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia (page 313)

     Do you know whether any country offices pay their men by the thousand, or whether they are on stab wages? — I do not know. Some are paid stab wages, but I do not know whether there is much piece-work.

   • 1967, John Child, Industrial Relations in the British Printing Industry (page 113)

     The pressmen were granted a stab wage of 36s for a 60 hour week, and the extras for overtime and Sunday work […]

Noun

stab (plural not attested)

1. (industrial relations) Clipping of establishment.
   • 1892, The British Printer (volume 5, page 42)

     […] there were 286 overseers and 210 readers occupied in the 501 offices; 2,691 compositors were paid on the stab […]

Anagrams

• ABTs, ATBs, ATSB, Bast, Bats, SATB, TBAs, TBSA, Tabs, bast, bats, tabs

Danish

Etymology

From German Stab.

Noun

stab c (singular definite staben, plural indefinite stabe)

1. staff

Inflection

Lushootseed

Etymology

Proto-Salish *s-tam ("what?"; "something"), from *s- +? *tam (“thing; what”)

Determiner

stab

1. what (interrogative pronoun)
2. thing

Swedish

Etymology

From German Stab.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??b/

Noun

stab c

1. a staff

Declension

References

Anagrams

• bast