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Burrowing vs Drilling - What's the difference?

burrowing | drilling |

As nouns the difference between burrowing and drilling

is that burrowing is the act or result of making a burrow while drilling is a triplet (one of three persons born to the same mother at the same time).

As a verb burrowing

is .

burrowing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or result of making a burrow.
  • * 1825 , Thomas Thomson, ?Richard Phillips, ?Edward William Brayley, Annals of Philosophy
    • These perforations may be readily distinguished from those more oblique and lateral burrowings which are often found in secondary fossils

    drilling

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Act of ing.
  • A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton; drill.

    • Etymology 2

    From German drei (three)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long firearm with three (or rarely, four) barrels.