drill in English: A tool that turns very fast to make holes; also an exercise you repeat to practise something. (noun)

Translation

A tool that turns very fast to make holes; also an exercise you repeat to practise something.

Word origin

From Dutch drillen, meaning to bore a hole or to train soldiers by repeated exercise. English took both meanings.

Gender

Pluraldrills

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The tool sense; a drill turns fast and cuts into wood, brick, or metal.

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A "drill" is also a practice of what to do, repeated until everyone knows it.

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People say "this is not a drill" to show that something is really happening.

tool

A thing you hold in your hand to help you do work, such as a hammer or a knife.

hole

An empty or open space in a solid thing, or a hollow place in the ground.

machine

A thing with moving parts that uses power to do work for people.

build

To make something by putting parts together, like a house or a wall.

practice

Doing something again and again so that you get better at it. In Britain the verb is spelt "practise".

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