Drill vs Broach - What's the difference?
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To create (a hole) by removing material with a (tool).
To practice, especially in a military context.
(ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
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To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
To hit or kick with a lot of power.
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(slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
(obsolete) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on .
* Addison
(obsolete) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
* Jonathan Swift
A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
A row of seed sown in a furrow.
An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise).
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, title= (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.
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Any of several molluscs, of the genus , that drill holes in the shells of other animals.
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An Old World monkey of West Africa, , similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. (rfex)
(masonry) A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
A spit for cooking food.
* Francis Bacon
An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
(architecture, UK, dialect) A spire rising from a tower.
A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.
(senseid) (figuratively) To begin discussion about (something).
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To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
To be overcome or submerged by a wave or surge of water.
English terms with multiple etymologies
As a noun drill
is drill, exercise.As a verb broach is
to broach.drill
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Drill a small hole to start the screw in the right direction.
- They drilled daily to learn the routine exactly.
- The sergeant was up by 6:00 every morning, drilling his troops.
- He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers.
- The instructor drilled into us the importance of reading the instructions.
- Drill deeper and you may find the underlying assumptions faulty.
- He did get their attention when he drilled the ball dead center into the hole for an opening birdie.
- Without compromising he drilled the ball home, leaving Dynamos' ill-fated keeper diving for fresh air.
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- Is this going to take long? I've got a hot date to drill the flautist at the symphony tonight.'' - Brian Griffin, ''
- waters drilled through a sandy stratum
- (Thomson)
- She drilled him on to five-and-fifty, and will drop him in his old age
- This accident hath drilled away the whole summer.
Noun
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- Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills .
Quotations
* (English Citations of "drill")Derived terms
* dental drill * dentist's drill * drill barrow * drill bow * drill harrow * drill plough, drill plow * drill sergeantEtymology 2
Probably of African origin; compare mandrill.Noun
(en noun)External links
* (Mandrillus leucophaeus) * (Mandrillus leucophaeus) * (Mandrillus leucophaeus)Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Derived terms
* (l), (l)Synonyms
* (l)broach
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) broche, fromNoun
(es)- He turned a broach that had worn a crown.
- (Forby)
- (Knight)
Verb
(es)- French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line.
- I broached the subject of contraceptives carefully when the teenager mentioned his promiscuity.
- Yet he was much too much scared of broaching any man, let alone one in a peaked cap, to dare to ask.
- I have tried on several occasions to broach the subject of my love to Lys; but she will not listen.
Etymology 2
(en)Verb
(es)- The small boat broached and nearly sank, because of the large waves.
- Each time we came around into the wind, the sea broached our bow.