What's the difference between drilled and dug?

Drilled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Drill

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".

Dug


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Dig
  • (n.) A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Dig.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
  • (2) But the last people you'd rely on are those who dug the ditch and shoved you in – particularly when they're still building and still shoving.
  • (3) However, under conditions of low stringency, the DUG S and M RNA probes hybridised to the respective S and M segments of Ganjam (GAN) virus (another member of the NSD serogroup).
  • (4) After hiding in bushes, where she was bitten by a snake, she decided to return to her family, only to find them being lined up next to one of the newly dug pits that had appeared near Tutsi homes.
  • (5) For miles, only the strip of land for the track is dug up, but in places the footprint is much wider: access routes for work vehicles; holding areas for excavated earth; new electricity substations; mounds of ballast prepared for the day when quarries cannot keep pace with the demands of the construction; extra lines for the trains that will lay the track.
  • (6) When used in an enzyme linked immunoassay (ELISA), the DUG N protein reacted with polyclonal mouse immune ascitic fluids raised against either CCHF or Hazara viruses (both members of the CCHF serogroup of nairoviruses).
  • (7) On information known publicly, one Tamil man was detained when he came to Australia because he was a lawyer for the LTTE’s civil administration, another because he dug ditches on LTTE orders for civilian Tamils to shelter in during air raids by government aircraft.
  • (8) The DUG S RNA probe also hybridised to the S segments of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus and Hazara (HAZ) virus (members of the CCHF serogroup).
  • (9) Cloned cDNA derived from the small (S) and medium (M) genomic RNA segments of Dugbe (DUG) virus, isolate ArD44313, a member of the Nairobi sheep disease (NSD) serogroup of nairoviruses (family, Bunyaviridae) was used to prepare 32P-labelled DNA and RNA probes.
  • (10) In the last few weeks, Miami has had to rely on comebacks, most memorably when they dug themselves out a 27-point hole against the Cleveland Cavaliers .
  • (11) We are the first generation in human civilization in which bodies are buried and then dug up and scattered,” Masovic said.
  • (12) The protesters have dug in at the square, with a hardcore of several hundred setting up a makeshift camp with tents, log fires and soup kitchens, while a large stage blasts pop music and speeches by opposition leaders.
  • (13) Later, the group raised €1,000 to have it plumbed into the caravan and a septic tank dug, so the toilet works.
  • (14) He arrived through Miami international airport on a Monday afternoon and I was so anxious that on my six-hour drive to pick him up, I dug my nails into the steering wheel leaving marks I can still see today.
  • (15) The freezing New Year rain drove into the dug-outs in such torrential fashion that he initially sheltered in the tunnel but such inclement weather quickly proved the least of his problems.
  • (16) The 26 miles of tunnel being dug under the heart of the capital – picking a careful way among ancient remains, beneath prime property and past the oldest subterranean railway in the world – is restating Britain's traditional claim to be a world leader in the field.
  • (17) So this is the hole the US president has dug for himself.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Schlumberger stall at the DUG Eagle Ford Conference and Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas, US.
  • (19) These included small test plots of dug-up soil that can still be seen from the bedroom.
  • (20) Gates was unequivocal in expressing his belief that they had been, telling a gathering of marines at the heavily fortified Sangin base: "Before you arrived here, the Taliban was dug in deep and, as the British before can attest, this district was the most dangerous not only in Afghanistan but maybe the whole world.

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