Drill vs Practise - 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.
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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.
(transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To repeat as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
(intransitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To repeat an activity in this way.
(transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
(transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
(intransitive, obsolete, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To conspire.
To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
To make use of; to employ.
* Massinger
To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
* Landor
As a noun drill
is drill, exercise.As a verb practise is
(transitive|british|canada|australia|new zealand|ireland) to repeat as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.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
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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)practise
English
Alternative forms
* practice (standard for noun but incorrect for verb outside US; almost universal for both in American English)Verb
(practis)- You should practise playing piano every day.
- If you want to speak French well, you need to practise .
- They gather to practise religion every Saturday.
- She practised law for forty years before retiring.
- Aught but Talbot's shadow whereon to practise your severity.''
- As this advice ye practise or neglect.
- In malice to this good knight's wife, I practised Ubaldo and Ricardo to corrupt her.
- In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practised to love their neighbour.