different between planter vs drill

English

Etymology

plant +? -er

Noun

planter (plural planters)

1. One who plants something.
   • 2002, Jill Christman, Darkroom: A Family Exposure (page 100)

     She didn't use any magic truth serums, nor did she suggest hypnotherapy, but barring this, she personified the greatest enemy of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation — an evil planter of false memories.

2. A box or pot for plants, usually large and standing on the floor.
3. (historical) Any of the early English settlers, given the lands of the dispossessed Irish populace during the reign of Elizabeth I.
4. A machine used for planting seeds.
5. The owner of a plantation.

Translations

Anagrams

• pantler, replant

Cebuano

Etymology

Back-formation from planteran.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: plan?ter

Noun

planter

1. a frameup; a false incrimination of an innocent person

Danish

Noun

planter c

1. indefinite plural of plante

Verb

planter

1. present of plante

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch planter. Equivalent to planten +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pl?n.t?r/
• Hyphenation: plan?ter

Noun

planter m (plural planters)

1. A planter, one who plants (usually plants or perhaps fungi).
2. A farmer, a tiller; in particular the owner or operator of a plantation, a planter.
3. A founder of a colony, a settler, a coloniser.

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin plant?re, present active infinitive of plant?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl??.te/

Verb

planter

1. (transitive) to plant
2. (transitive) to drive in (a nail, stake etc.)
3. (transitive) to pitch (a tent)
4. (transitive, informal) to flake, leave someone behind, by not showing up (for a meeting, date)
5. (transitive, intransitive, computing) to crash
6. (reflexive, informal, se planter) to fall off
7. (reflexive, informal, se planter) to fail, to not succeed
8. (reflexive, informal, se planter, a vehicle and etc) to break down
9. (transitive, slang) to stab with a knife
   • 1981, Jean-Marc Ligny, Furia!, ?ISBN

     Il se dit qu'il ne ressortira plus jamais de cette cour des miracles, que dans dix minutes un petit nerveux va déboucher d'une venelle avec un couteau et le planter aussi sec.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• planter le décor
• se planter

Related terms

• plante
• plantation

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• parlent

Latin

Verb

planter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of plant?

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French planteur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pl??t??]

Noun

planter

1. a planter; one that plants something

   Synonym: agrikilter

Related terms

• plantasion
• plant
• plante

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

planter m or f

1. indefinite plural of plante

Verb

planter

1. present of plante

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• plantar

Noun

planter m or f

1. indefinite feminine plural of plante

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