Drill | Mean of drill in English Dictionary

/ˈdrɪl/

• Noun
• a tool used for making holes in hard substances
1. an electric/power drill
2. the dentist's drill
• an exercise done to practice military skills or procedures
1. During basic training, the recruits spent hours a day doing drills.
2. a drill sergeant [=a sergeant who trains new soldiers]
3. soldiers doing drill
• a physical or mental activity that is done repeatedly in order to learn something, become more skillful, etc.
1. The students do vocabulary/multiplication drills every Monday.
2. The players are doing their drills.
3. The students were taught by drill.

• to know how something is done
1. You don't have to tell us what to do. We all know the drill by now.
• Verb
• to make a hole in something with a drill
1. He drilled a hole in the back of the cabinet.
2. The dentist drilled the tooth.
3. They are planning to drill for oil here.
• to teach or train (someone) by repeating a lesson or exercise again and again
1. We drilled the children on their multiplication tables.
2. The players were drilled in practice.
• to train (soldiers) by making them practice military procedures and exercises
1. The commander drilled the troops.
• to hit (someone or something) very hard
1. He drilled a single to right field.
2. The quarterback got drilled.
• to force (something) to be learned very well by (someone) by repeating it again and again
1. Our teacher drilled the lesson into our heads.
2. The importance of saying “please” and “thank you” was drilled into us as children.
• Noun
• a row of seeds planted by a special machine
• a special machine that plants seeds in rows
• Verb
• to plant (seeds) in a row with a special machine
• Noun
• a type of strong cotton cloth