1. v. To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
Drill a small hole to start tmhe screw in the right direction.
2. v. (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
They drilled daily to learn the routine exactly.
3. v. To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
The sergeant was up by 6:00 every morning, drilling his troops.
4. v. To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
The instructor drilled into us the importance of reading the instructions.
5. v. (intransitive) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
Drill deeper and you may find the underlying assumptions faulty.
6. v. To hit or kick with a lot of power.
7. v. (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
8. v. (slang) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
9. v. To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
waters drilled through a sandy stratum
10. v. To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
11. v. (transitive, obsolete) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.
12. v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
13. subst. A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
Wear safety glasses when operating an electric drill.
14. subst. The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
Use a drill with a wire brush to remove any rust or buildup.
15. subst. An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
16. subst. A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
17. subst. A row of seed sown in a furrow.
18. subst. An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
Regular fire drills can ensure that everyone knows how to exit safely in an emergency.
19. subst. (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.
20. subst. Any of several molluscs, of the genus , especially the oyster drill , that drill holes in the shells of other animals.
21. subst. (music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
22. subst. wikispecies, Ocenebrinae
23. subst. An Old World monkey of West Africa, , similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
24. subst. A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
twist drill
twist drill
1. subst. A rotating cutting tool, used for cutting holes in rigid materials, that consists of an essentially conical point, relieved and fluted to form cutting lips, and spiral flutes which direct the chips aw
drill bit
drill bit
1. subst. A twist drill.
2. subst. Any other style of cutter, for example a spade drill, that is rotated and fed in a similar manner as a twist drill to of cut a hole in metal, wood or other materials.
1. subst. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth.
2. subst. A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
3. subst. (dated, British) A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British Caribbean, and a fourpenny piece, or groat, in the British West Indies.)
a threepenny bit
4. subst. (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
5. subst. (US) An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first came into use, the Spanish 8 reales coin was widely used as a dollar equivalent, and thus the 1 re
A quarter is two bits.
6. subst. (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents.
7. subst. A small amount of something.
There were bits of paper all over the floor. Does your leg still hurt? / Just a bit now. I've done my bit; I expect you to do yours.
8. subst. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
I'll be there in a bit; I need to take care of something first. He was here just a bit ago, but it looks like he's stepped out.
9. subst. A portion of something.
I'd like a big bit of cake, please.
10. subst. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree.
Am I bored? Not a bit of it!
11. subst. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
12. subst. (anchor, An excerpt of material) An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
His bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show.
13. subst. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
14. subst. The cutting iron of a plane.
15. adv. To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").
That's a bit too sweet.
16. v. To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
17. v. simple past tense of bite
Your dog bit me!
18. v. (informal in US, archaic in Britain) past of bite, bitten
I have been bit by your dog!
19. adj. (colloquial) bitten.
Even though he's bit, of course the zombies would still chase him.
20. adj. (only in combination) Having been bitten.
21. subst. (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
22. subst. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
23. subst. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
status bits on IRC; permission bits in a file system
24. subst. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
25. subst. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
