Air drill
() A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air |
Bessemer steel
() Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal |
Cast steel
() See Cast steel, under Steel. |
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. |
Hollow
(a.) Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance |
Hollow
(a.) Depressed |
Hollow
(a.) Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound |
Hollow
(a.) Not sincere or faithful |
Hollow
(n.) A cavity, natural or artificial |
Hollow
(n.) A low spot surrounded by elevations |
Hollow
(v. t.) To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving |
Hollow
(adv.) Wholly |
Hollow
(interj.) Hollo. |
Hollow
(v. i.) To shout |
Hollow
(v. t.) To urge or call by shouting. |
Hollow-hearted
(a.) Insincere |
Hollow-horned
(a.) Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle. |
Steel
(n.) A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon. |
Steel
(n.) An instrument or implement made of steel |
Steel
(n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc. |
Steel
(n.) An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives. |
Steel
(n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint. |
Steel
(n.) Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness |
Steel
(n.) A chalybeate medicine. |
Steel
(n.) To overlay, point, or edge with steel |
Steel
(n.) To make hard or strong |
Steel
(n.) Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities. |
Steel
(n.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel. |
| 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) |
| steel engraving | the act of engraving on a steel plate |
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 |
Hawaiian guitar
steel guitar | guitar whose steel strings are twanged while being pressed with a movable steel bar for a glissando effect |
| pneumatic drill | a power drill powered by compressed air |
| power drill | a power tool for drilling holes into hard materials |
| 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 |
| steel | knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod |
| steel arch bridge | a steel bridge constructed in the form of an arch |
| steel drum | a concave percussion instrument made from the metal top of an oil drum, has an array of flattened areas that produce different tones when struck (of Caribbean origin) |
| steel engraving | engraving on a steel plate |
| steel engraving | an impression taken from an engraved steel plate |
steel mill
steelworks
steel plant
steel factory | a factory where steel is made |
| steel plate | a plate of steel |
| steel trap | a trap made of steel with a strong spring and sharp toothlike projections to hold the prey |
| steel-wool pad | abrader consisting of a pad of steel wool used for polishing or smoothing |
straight flute
straight-fluted drill | a rock drill with flutes that are straight |
sword
blade brand
steel | a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard |
twist bit
twist drill | a bit or drill having deep helical grooves |
| steel blue | a greyish blue color |
| steel trap | an acute intelligence (an analogy based on the well-known sharpness of steel traps), he's as sharp as a steel trap, a mind like a steel trap |
| steel company | a company that makes and sells steel |
| steel industry | the industry that makes steel and steel products |
| steel band | a band that plays instruments made from the heads of oil drums (Caribbean Islands) |
| hole hollow | a depression hollowed out of solid matter |
| hollow holler | a small valley between mountains, he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians |
drill master
drill instructor | a noncommissioned officer who instructs recruits in military marching and discipline |
| steel production | making steel from pig iron |
| hollow | a cavity or space in something, hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks |
lordosis
hollow-back | an abnormal inward (forward) curvature of the vertebral column |
| alloy steel | steel who characteristics are determined by the addition of other elements in addition to carbon |
| austenitic steel | steel that has enough nickel and chromium or manganese to retain austenite at atmospheric temperatures |
| case-hardened steel | steel with a surface that is much harder than the interior metal |
| steel | an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon, widely used in construction, mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range |