Drill vs Bucket - 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.
* Macaulay
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.
* Sandys
Any of several molluscs, of the genus , that drill holes in the shells of other animals.
(Ocenebrinae)
An Old World monkey of West Africa, , similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
The amount held in this container.
A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket .
(slang) An old car that is not in good working order.
(basketball, informal) The basket.
(basketball, informal) A field goal.
(variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
(computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
(informal, chiefly, plural) A large amount of liquid.
To place inside a bucket.
(informal) To rain heavily.
* It’s really bucketing down out there.
(informal) To travel very quickly.
* The boat is bucketing along.
(computing) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
* 2002 , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Masayuki Numao, Rüdiger Reischuk, Algorithmic Learning Theory: 13th International Conference (page 352)
* 2008 , Hari Mohan Pandey, Design Analysis and Algorithm (page 136)
As a noun drill
is drill, exercise.As a verb bucket is
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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
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- 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)bucket
English
Noun
(en noun)- I need a bucket to carry the water from the well.
- The crab was cool and very light. But the water was thick with sand, and so, scrambling down, Jacob was about to jump, holding his bucket in front of him, when he saw, stretched entirely rigid, side by side, their faces very red, an enormous man and woman.
- The horse drank a whole bucket of water.
- The forward drove to the bucket .
- ''We can't keep giving up easy buckets .
- It rained buckets yesterday.
- I was so nervous that I sweated buckets .
Synonyms
* (container) pail * (piece of machinery) scoop, vane, blade * (old car) banger, jalopy, rustbucketDerived terms
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* barrel * keg * pail * tubVerb
(en verb)- These candidates are then bucketed into a discretized version of the space of all possible lines.
- Thus, sorting each bucket takes O(1) times. The total effort of bucketing , sorting buckets, and concotenating(SIC) the sorted buckets together is O(n ).
