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Another word for drill

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Noun

  1. Repetition of an action so as to develop or maintain one's skill

      1. A problem or group of written examples, passages, etc. to be studied and worked out for developing technical skill, as in mathematics, grammar, etc.
      2. A military maneuver or training activity.
      3. A specific activity performed to develop or maintain fitness or a skill:
      1. The business of a professional person:
      2. The exercise of the profession of medicine.
      3. The condition of being skilled through repeated exercise:
      1. The practicing of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done
      2. A drilling or repeating for practice before future performance
      3. Any practice, exercise, or drill; trial
      1. A work of literature or art treating a subject in careful detail and typically done as an exercise in technique, etc.
      2. A detailed examination, analysis, or experiment investigating a subject or phenomenon:
      3. (Music) A composition intended as a technical exercise.
      1. The process or routine of one who trains.
      2. (Computing) The process by which two modems determine which protocol and speed to use; handshaking.
      3. The process or experience of being trained
    See also:

    work

Verb

  1. To subject to or engage in forms of exertion in order to train, strengthen, or condition

      1. To carry out the functions of:
      2. To subject to practice or exertion in order to train, strengthen, or develop:
      3. To engage in exercise.
      1. To put knowledge into practice; work at or follow a profession, as medicine, law, etc.
      2. To do repeatedly in order to learn or become proficient; exercise or drill oneself in
      3. To teach or train through practice; exercise
      1. To subject to certain action, exercises, etc. in order to bring to a desired condition
      2. To give or undergo a course of training:
      3. To prepare physically, as with a regimen:
      1. (Intransitive) Used other than as an idiom: see work,"Ž out.
      2. To smooth.
      3. (Intransitive) To habitually exercise rigorously, especially by lifting weights, in order to increase strength or muscle mass or maintain fitness.
    See also:

    work

  2. To instruct in a body of doctrine or belief

    See also:

    teach

  3. To fix (an idea, for example) in someone's mind by reemphasis and repetition

      1. To traverse in a vehicle:
      2. To drive a blow, ball, missile, etc.
      3. (Basketball) To drive through (the lane)
      1. To become attached to and embedded in the maternal uterine lining. Used of a fertilized egg.
      2. (Med., Dentistry) To insert (an organ, prosthetic device, living tissue, etc.) within the body
      3. To set in firmly, as into the ground:
      1. To produce or attempt to produce a vivid impression or image of:
      2. To compel (a person) to serve in the military, particularly in the naval forces, especially by seizure.
      3. (Law) To impose a constructive trust or a lien upon property, as a matter of equity, to protect a person without legal title but with a legally recognized interest.
      1. To teach (others) by frequent instruction or repetition; indoctrinate:
      2. To induce understanding or a particular sentiment in a person or persons.
      3. To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill:
      1. To put in drop by drop
      2. To put (an idea, principle, feeling, etc.) in or into little by little; impart gradually
      3. To pour in (medicine, for example) drop by drop.
      1. To move with heavy steps or come down heavily while moving
      2. To move or work laboriously:
      3. To strike or drive with repeated, heavy blows
    See also:

    teach

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Another word for drill

Noun

  1. Practice

    See also:

    exercise

    practice

  2. Exercise, especially in military formation

    See also:

    march

    practice

  3. A tool for boring holes

    See also:

    bit

  4. Device for planting seed in holes

    See also:

    tool

Verb

  1. To bore

    See also:

    dig

    penetrate

  2. To train

      1. To do or perform something habitually or repeatedly:
      2. To work at, especially as a profession:
      3. To teach or train through practice; exercise
      1. To practice by recitation or repetition in private for experiment and improvement, prior to a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy.
      2. To practice (an action) by repetition so as to improve performance:
      3. To repeat or practice as if rehearsing
      1. To punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience.
      2. To train by instruction and practice, as in following rules or developing self-control:
      3. To impose order on:
    See also:

    exercise

    practice

    teach

    practice

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Sentence Examples

  • It is now used as a depot for the Naval Reserve, for whom a large drill hall was added.

  • He should have just become a steam drill operator!

  • In Roman times the modern V drill (52) is usual.

  • Among other public buildings are the assembly rooms, St George's hall, the volunteer drill hall, and the Crichton Institution chapel, completed at a cost of 30,000.

  • The pump drill with cords twisted round it was in Roman use.

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