Air drill () A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air |
Drill (v. t.) To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill |
Drill (v. t.) To train in the military art |
Drill (v. i.) To practice an exercise or exercises |
Drill (n.) An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances |
Drill (n.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like |
Drill (n.) Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition |
Drill (n.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea. |
Drill (v. t.) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling |
Drill (v. t.) To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water. |
Drill (v. t.) To entice |
Drill (v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. |
Drill (v. i.) To trickle. |
Drill (v. i.) To sow in drills. |
Drill (n.) A small trickling stream |
Drill (n.) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. |
Drill (n.) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing. |
Drill (n.) A row of seed sown in a furrow. |
Drill (n.) A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus). |
Drill (n.) Same as Drilling. |
Drill press () A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw. |
Spindle (n.) The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound |
Spindle (n.) A slender rod or pin on which anything turns |
Spindle (n.) The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc. |
Spindle (n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns. |
Spindle (n.) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed. |
Spindle (n.) The fusee of a watch. |
Spindle (n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle. |
Spindle (n.) A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards |
Spindle (n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord. |
Spindle (n.) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria |
Spindle (n.) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus. |
Spindle (v. i.) To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body |
Spindle-legged (a.) Having long, slender legs. |
Spindle-shanked (a.) Having long, slender legs. |
Spindle-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a spindle. |
Spindle-shaped (a.) Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends |
drill | (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms |
exercise practice drill practice session recitation | systematic training by multiple repetitions, practice makes perfect |
fire drill | an exercise intended to train people in duties and escape procedures to be followed in case of fire |
military drill | training in marching and the use of weapons |
close-order drill | (military) military drill of troops in standard marching (shoulder-to-shoulder) |
forest goat spindle horn Pseudoryx nghetinhensis | cow-like creature with the glossy coat of a horse and the agility of a goat and the long horns of an antelope, characterized as a cow that lives the life of a goat |
drill Mandrillus leucophaeus | similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored |
bore bore-hole drill hole | a hole or passage made by a drill, usually made for exploratory purposes |
bore bit borer rock drill stone drill | a drill for penetrating rock |
breast drill | a portable drill with a plate that is pressed against the chest to force the drill point into the work |
core drill | a drill that removes a cylindrical core from the drill hole |
dentist's drill burr drill | a high speed drill that dentists use to cut into teeth |
drill | a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows) |
electric drill | a rotating power drill powered by an electric motor |
drilling bit drill bit | a bit used in drilling for oil |
drill press | a machine tool with a separate, upright stand, an electric drill is pressed into the work automatically or with a hand lever |
drill rig drilling rig oilrig oil rig | rig used in drilling for oil or gas |
drill site | workplace that is the site of a drill hole |
hand drill handheld drill | a small portable drill held and operated by hand |
pneumatic drill | a power drill powered by compressed air |
power drill | a power tool for drilling holes into hard materials |
spike spindle | any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object, the spike pierced the receipts and held them in order |
spindle | a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning |
spindle mandrel mandril arbor | any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts |
spindle | a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe, used as a baluster, chair leg, etc. |
star drill | a steel rock drill with a star-shaped point that is used for making holes in stones or masonry, it is operated by hitting the end with a hammer while rotating it between blows |
straight flute straight-fluted drill | a rock drill with flutes that are straight |
twist bit twist drill | a bit or drill having deep helical grooves |
spindle | (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division, the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle, chromosomes are distributed by spindles in mitosis and meiosis |
drill master drill instructor | a noncommissioned officer who instructs recruits in military marching and discipline |
Celastraceae family Celastraceae spindle-tree family staff-tree family | trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having brightolored fruits |
spindle tree spindleberry spindleberry tree | any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries |
common spindle tree Euonymus europaeus | small erect deciduous shrub having tough white wood and cathartic bark and fruit |
winged spindle tree Euonymous alatus | bushy deciduous shrub with branches having thin wide corky longitudinal wings, brilliant red in autumn, northeastern Asia to central China |
drill steel drill rod | carbon steel used for rock drills and dowels |
drill | train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons |
drill | undergo military training or do military exercises |
drill exercise practice practise | learn by repetition, We drilled French verbs every day, Pianists practice scales |
drill | teach by repetition |
hammer in drill in ram down beat in | teach by drills and repetition |
bore drill | make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool, don't drill here, there's a gas pipe, drill a hole into the wall, drill for oil, carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall |
counter-drill | drill in an opposite direction |
drill-like | resembling a drill |
spindle-legged spindle-shanked | having long slender legs |
fusiform spindle-shaped cigar-shaped | tapering at each end |