(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
(n.) An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press.
(n.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.
(n.) Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.
(n.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea.
(v. t.) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.
(v. t.) To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.
(v. t.) To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.
(v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
(v. i.) To trickle.
(v. i.) To sow in drills.
(n.) A small trickling stream; a rill.
(n.) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
(n.) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.
(n.) A row of seed sown in a furrow.
(n.) A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).
(n.) Same as Drilling.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Acoustic" craters were produced by two laser pulses delivered into a saline-filled metal fiber cap, which was placed in a mechanically drilled crater.
(2) In late May, more than 50 residents of Ust-Usa protested the effects of oil drilling and plans for a new oil well near the village.
(3) Officers arrested her last month during the protest against oil drilling by the energy firm Cuadrilla at Balcombe in West Sussex – a demonstration Lucas has attended several times.
(4) An image depicting the British prime minister, David Cameron, is held by a protester during a rally at the former test drill site operated by Cuadrilla Resources in Balcombe.
(5) Based on available information regarding heat tolerance of neural tissue, all drills were found capable of producing hazardous temperature elevations.
(6) Some art experts have petitioned against Seracini drilling through the Vasari fresco, claiming any paint found behind might have been left by another artist.
(7) There were 119 quarry drilling and crusher workers (outdoor, physically active), 77 quarry truck and loader drivers (outdoor, physically inactive), 92 postal deliverymen (outdoor, physically active), 75 postal clerks (indoor, physically inactive), and 43 hospital maintenance workers (indoor, physically active).
(8) Salem County (NJ) Memorial Hospital cooperated in an areawide disaster drill and found that it took large doses of planning and cooperation to coordinate the effort.
(9) But the research drills down into the data to examine different cohorts separately, and discovers that reassuring overall averages are masking some striking variations.
(10) We now need to get on with exploratory drilling to find out the extent of the UK’s oil and gas reserves.” Geoff Davies, chief executive of Celtique, said: “We are studying the impact of the amendments [and] will make a decision in due course regarding the potential appeal of the Fernhurst planning refusal.” Cuadrilla did not respond to a request for comment.
(11) The selection of diamond-coates whetstones manufactured by Chirana for turbine drills is extended at present by two new types of toods with a different size of diamond particles.
(12) The effect of drill speed on biopsy size and quality for microscopy was studied postmortem.
(13) But its protests were far more muted than the complaints which saw off plans for drills there earlier this year.
(14) Preservation and usefulness of human gross temporal bones that have been dissected or drilled have always been a problem.
(15) We are looking to find solutions for global warming and yet we’re spending billions to drill deeper and deeper for oil.
(16) Oil is coating birds and delicate wetlands along the Louisiana coast, and the political fallout from the spill has reached Washington, where the head of the federal agency that oversees offshore drilling resigned today.
(17) This included estimation of the furthest distance that the cooling fluid, using coloured water, and the bone chips of a dry petrous temporal bone can be thrown, and the spread of the fine dust produced by the drilling using a staph.
(18) The left tibia served as a drilled but nonimplanted control.
(19) The risk factors with statistical significance in conditional logistic regression analysis were exposure time of smelting, time of underground drilling, and age of beginning mining underground.
(20) • Very robust questioning, known as the harsh approach, could be banned – or if not "the approach should not include an analogy with a military drill sergeant".
Grill
Definition:
(v. t.) A gridiron.
(v. t.) That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.
(n.) To broil on a grill or gridiron.
(n.) To torment, as if by broiling.
Example Sentences:
(1) These tacos, the legacy of the city's many Lebanese immigrants, a variation of shawarma , the grilled marinated meat dish popular throughout the Middle East.
(2) With the election only a week away, the three grillings were seen as critical to the outcome of the closest election for a generation.
(3) She wanted to cook the kind of food she had eaten and prepared while living in Italy – grilled meats, bread soups, pasta.
(4) Grilled Grill herring with a little oil and salt and the skin will blacken and crisp to reveal a creamy delicious flesh inside.
(5) As the embattled NHS chief executive was grilled in the televised hearing, committee member Valerie Vaz told him: "Please don't feel that this is a trial."
(6) The debut of the film – before an audience of business journalists, film critics and a smattering of Wonga customers – comes before a grilling by MPs in Westminster on Tuesday as calls grow for tighter curbs on payday lenders.
(7) Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt was grilled for six hours at the Leveson inquiry and his evidence touched on phone-hacking, his meetings with the Murdochs, the role of his former special adviser Adam Smith and whether he really did hide behind a tree.
(8) Davis had earlier declined the privilege of specifying his final supper, so instead was given the institution's choice of grilled cheeseburgers, oven browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape beverage.
(9) However, it’s the views of the Cascade mountains from Portland City Grill on the 30th floor that really grab the attention.
(10) There's nothing worse than a semi-raw grilled tomato, so make sure they're cooked properly all the way through and a bit caramelised on top.
(11) BP credit rating downgraded after Tony Hayward's grilling by Congress 19 June One of BP's partners, Anadarko Petroleum, refuses to accept any responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon explosion despite owning a quarter of the well.
(12) P51 The Independent Farage to be grilled by tipsy Gogglebox couple.
(13) 400g cooked or tinned butterbeans 1 tsp ground cumin 10ml lemon juice ¼ clove garlic, peeled and finely minced 1 small handful picked flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped 1 tbsp plain flour (gluten-free flour also works fine) 1 tsp salt 1 egg 1 spring onion, trimmed and finely sliced 50g breadcrumbs 100g feta (or other crumbly goat's or sheep's cheese) Put the butterbeans, cumin, lemon juice, garlic, parsley, flour, salt and egg in a food processor and blitz to a coarse paste: you don't want the mix fully pureed, otherwise the burgers will be too wet and will fall apart on the grill.
(14) After hours of grilling in senate estimates, assistant health minister Fiona Nash insists there was no conflict of interest or breach of standards in her office because her former chief of staff, Alister Furnival, did not act like a man who had a conflict of interest, did everything required of him to avoid conflicts, and he can’t help it if his accountant forgot to tidy up his paperwork.
(15) "It would have looked very bad if these battles were going on while Vella was being grilled by MEPs," said Micklewright.
(16) • £585, +30 22710 32217, perleas.gr Greek island holiday guide: Crete Read more Where to eat Fabrika In an old olive press in the market town of Volissos, this taverna specialises in grilled meat (done properly over charcoal).
(17) The Ukip leader said he was making immigration the central plank of his campaign and wants the the chance to grill David Cameron on the issue at the leaders’ television debates later this week.
(18) Grilled cuttlefish on a bed of chestnut purée comes dramatically drizzled with black squid ink and shredded fried leek, while the innocuous-sounding champi con foie conceals mushroom, foie gras, creamy alioli (garlic mayonnaise) and a slick of salsa verde.
(19) The neutral fractions of yakitori grilled for 3, 5, and 7 min contained 3.8, 19, and 43 ng, respectively, of 1-nitropyrene per gram of yakitori, accounting for 3.0, 2.7, and 1.3%, respectively, of the total extract mutagenicity.
(20) And here's our full story: Service sector growing at fastest pace since 1997 10.29am GMT MPs grill Wonga: Payday lenders admit making changes Wonga has also admitted it was forced to make changes to its sales practices following an Office of Fair Trading investigation,as the hearing before MPs continued...