Word Meanings - DRILLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of piercing with a drill. 2. A training by repeated exercises.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DRILLING)

• Discipline
• Order
• strictness
• training
• government
• instruction
• drilling
• control
• coercion
• punishment
• organization

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DRILLING)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to DRILLING)

• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• ORGANIZATION
  1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also,
• 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
• DISCIPLINER
  One who disciplines.
• TRAINABLE
  Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
• CONTROLLABILITY
  Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
• STRICTNESS
  Quality or state of being strict.
• MISCONDUCT
  Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
• DRILL PRESS
  A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• ABANDON
  To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender;
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• MISMANAGEMENT
  Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.
• COERCION
  The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable,
• CONTROL
  contr-rôle; contre + rôle roll, catalogue. See Counter 1. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register. Johnson. 2. That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder;
• TRAINER
  1. One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength. 2. A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. Bartlett.
• LICENSE
  fr. licere to be permitted, prob. orig., to be left free to one; akin 1. Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business,
• CONTROLLABLE
  Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command. Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason. South.
• GOVERNMENT
  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• UPTRAIN
  To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.
• CORRIDOR TRAIN
  A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.