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Drill

noun

1.

A tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows).

2.

Similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored. Synonym: Mandrillus leucophaeus.

3.

Systematic training by multiple repetitions. Synonyms: exercise, practice, practice session, recitation.

4.

(military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms.

verb

(past & past part. drilled; pres. part. drilling)

1.

Make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool. Synonym: bore. "Drill a hole into the wall" , "Drill for oil" , "Carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall"

2.

Train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons.

3.

Learn by repetition. Synonyms: exercise, practice, practise. "Pianists practice scales"

4.

Teach by repetition.

5.

Undergo military training or do military exercises.

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"Drill" Quotes from Famous Books

... an awful contempt for me?" Kolya rapped out suddenly and drew himself up before Alyosha, as though he were on drill. "Be so kind as to tell me, without ...

— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... than anything else was the necessity for "playing dead," as Tom expressed it. One of their exercises compelled them to lie on the ground absolutely motionless for an hour. Not even a muscle could twitch without bringing a reprimand from their keen-eyed instructor. Another part of the drill made them take half an hour merely to rise to their feet from a prostrate position, each move in the process being marked by the utmost caution. It was hard drill, but necessary, and in time the boys had gained a control over their muscles that would have ...

— Army Boys in the French Trenches • Homer Randall

... have fallen upon and kindled inflammable material. The rubbing requisite in shaping and polishing war clubs may have yielded a heat occasionally causing fire. In boring the holes necessary to make the needles found among primitive implements, a process resembling that of the fire-drill must have been employed. In short, it is not difficult to conceive of more than one way in which the fire-making art could have been gained by accident, though it may have been late in coming, since some, perhaps all, of the arts described were not attained until ...

— Man And His Ancestor - A Study In Evolution • Charles Morris

... inhabited by the upper ten of the dreaded "first class," a solemn conclave, headed by the lords of the school: Sitsky, Sablef, Osinin, Pryanishikoff, and Blashkov—this last actually a second cousin of Ivan. The decision resulting from the debate, held when the lower school was at drill, was spread abroad without delay by certain methods known only to the boys. By nightfall every cadet knew that young Gregoriev's status had been fixed; and henceforth none would dream of disputing it till the boy in question had passed his second year. By the third day ...

— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter

... of Borneo, Papuans or Maoris, Cheyennes or Tierra-del-Fuegians or the fabled Troglodytes; whether in the veritable youth of the world they counted up to five or only to two; whether they used a fire-drill, and if so what kind of drill; whether they had the notion of personal identity in so weak a shape as to practise the couvade; and a hundred other points, which we should now require any writer to settle, who should speak of the savage state as sovereign, one, and indivisible, ...

— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley

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