Word Meanings - DRILL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal. 2. To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to

Additional info about word: DRILL

1. To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal. 2. To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline. He drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DRILL)

• Exercise
• Exertion
• use
• practice
• application
• training
• employment
• drill
• Pierce
• Perforate
• bore
• penetrate
• excite
• affect
• rouse
• touch
• move
• enter
• stab
• transfix

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DRILL)

• Rest
• ease
• disuse
• respite
• relax
• recreate

Related words: (words related to DRILL)

• ENTERPARLANCE
  Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward.
• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• ENTERPRISE
  1. That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. Shak.
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• ENTEROLITH
  An intestinal concretion.
• ENTERPLEAD
  See INTERPLEAD
• EXERCISE
  exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive 1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in
• RELAXATIVE
  Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
• AFFECTIVELY
  In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
• TRAINING
  The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• TRAINABLE
  Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
• ENTERTAINER
  One who entertains.
• ENTEROTOMY
  Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia.
• AFFECTIONED
  1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• MESENTERY
  The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum
• CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
  To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• REENTERING
  The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored.
• INTERPENETRATE
  To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• ANENTEROUS
  Destitute of a stomach or an intestine. Owen.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR