drill
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Is drill a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).Examples: "Drill a small hole to start the screw in the right direction."Synonyms: excavate, bore, gougetransitive
2. (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.Examples: "They drilled daily to learn the routine exactly."; "On his return the team that faced Hull City had been reconfigured. Moses wasn’t overly drilled, just told he would be playing right wing-back, that Conte had seen enough to know."intransitive
3. (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.Examples: "The sergeant was up by 6:00 every morning, drilling his troops."; "He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers."ergative
4. (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.Examples: "The instructor drilled into us the importance of reading the instructions."transitive
5. (intransitive, figurative) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different levelExamples: "Drill deeper and you may find the underlying assumptions faulty."figurativelyintransitive
6. (transitive) To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power.Examples: "He drilled down the court and made a three-pointer."; "He drilled the ball to his teammate."; "He did get their attention when he drilled the ball dead center into the hole for an opening birdie."transitive
noun (English)
1. (uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.Examples: "Though the young women of Chicago’s drill scene can be as rowdy as their male counterparts, they’re also more diverse in subject matter and point to a possible way forward."; "New York City mayor Eric Adams held a summit with a group of drill rappers on Tuesday night and clarified he doesn’t actually want to ban their music, days after he appeared to blame the music scene for the recent shooting deaths of two young New York rappers and suggested drill videos be pulled from the internet."; "Between ticky off-kilter rhythms and otherworldly digital voice processing, the experimental hip-hop genres trap and drill have delivered radical hymns from alien planets."uncountable
2. (countable, music) A single performance of drill music.Examples: "These bells are alarmin’ Point blank and you missed your target They go shooting range and their drills are garbage"countable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.transitive
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.Examples: "Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.Examples: "waters drilled through a sandy stratum"; "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"transitive
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To protract, lengthen out; fritter away, spend (time) aimlessly.Examples: "Quit purposely drilling out the time hoping that someone else will do your chores."dialectalobsoletetransitive
2. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.Examples: "He tells me with great passion that she has bubbled him out of his youth; that she drilled him on to five and fifty [years old], and that he verily believes she will drop him in his old age, if she can find her account in another."Synonyms: entice, lead on, luredialectalobsoletetransitive
3. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.Examples: "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."dialectalobsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary