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drill | trap |

As nouns the difference between drill and trap

is that drill is drill, exercise while trap is stair, step.

drill

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To create (a hole) by removing material with a (tool).
    • Drill a small hole to start the screw in the right direction.
  • To practice, especially in a military context.
    • They drilled daily to learn the routine exactly.
  • (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
    • The sergeant was up by 6:00 every morning, drilling his troops.
  • * Macaulay
    • He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers.
  • To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
    • The instructor drilled into us the importance of reading the instructions.
  • To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
    • Drill deeper and you may find the underlying assumptions faulty.
  • To hit or kick with a lot of power.
  • * 2006 , Joe Coon, The Perfect Game ,
    • He did get their attention when he drilled the ball dead center into the hole for an opening birdie.
  • * 2007 , Craig Cowell, Muddy Sunday ,
    • Without compromising he drilled the ball home, leaving Dynamos' ill-fated keeper diving for fresh air.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Bolton were then just inches from taking the lead, but the dangerous-looking Taylor drilled just wide after picking up a loose ball following Jose Bosingwa's poor attempted clearance.}}
  • (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
    • Is this going to take long? I've got a hot date to drill the flautist at the symphony tonight.'' - Brian Griffin, ''
  • To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
    • waters drilled through a sandy stratum
    (Thomson)
  • To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
  • (obsolete) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on .
  • * Addison
    • She drilled him on to five-and-fifty, and will drop him in his old age
  • (obsolete) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • This accident hath drilled away the whole summer.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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).
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=“[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”}}
  • (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.
  • * Sandys
    • Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills .
  • Any of several molluscs, of the genus , that drill holes in the shells of other animals.
    • (Ocenebrinae)
    Quotations
    * (English Citations of "drill")
    Derived terms
    * dental drill * dentist's drill * drill barrow * drill bow * drill harrow * drill plough, drill plow * drill sergeant

    Related terms

    * drill bit * twist drill * drill press * drill down

    Etymology 2

    Probably of African origin; compare mandrill.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An Old World monkey of West Africa, , similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.

    • External links

    * (Mandrillus leucophaeus) * (Mandrillus leucophaeus) * (Mandrillus leucophaeus)

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
    • Derived terms
    * (l), (l)
    Synonyms
    * (l)

    trap

    English

    (wikipedia trap)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) (m), from (etyl) and possibly Albanian (m) "raft, channel, path". Connection to "step" is "that upon which one steps". (etyl) are ultimately borrowings from (etyl).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
    • I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.
  • A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
    • Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny.
  • * Shakespeare
    • God and your majesty / Protect mine innocence, or I fall into / The trap is laid for me!
  • A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
    • Close the trap , would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.
  • A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball; the game of trapball itself.
  • Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
    • They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap .
  • A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids.
  • A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
  • (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
  • * 1913 , D.H. Lawrence,
    • The two women looked down the alley. At the end of the Bottoms a man stood in a sort of old-fashioned trap , bending over bundles of cream-coloured stuff; while a cluster of women held up their arms to him, some with bundles.
  • * 1919 ,
    • I had told them they could have my trap to take them as far as the road went, because after that they had a long walk.
  • *
    • At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap , came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.
  • (slang) A person's mouth.
    • Keep your trap shut .
  • (in the plural) belongings
  • * 1870 , , Running for Governor ,
    • ...his cabin-mates in Montana losing small valuables from time to time, until at last, these things having been invariably found on Mr. Twain's person or in his "trunk" (newspaper he rolled his traps in)...
  • (slang) cubicle (in a public toilet)
    • I've just laid a cable in trap 2 so I'd give it 5 minutes if I were you.
  • (sports) Short for trapshooting.
  • (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
  • (Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
  • * 1996 , Judith Kapferer, Being All Equal: Identity, Difference and Australian Cultural Practice , page 84,
    • The miners? grievances centred on the issue of the compulsory purchase of miners? licences and the harassment of raids by the licensing police, the ‘traps ,’ in search of unlicensed miners.
  • * 2006 , Helen Calvert, Jenny Herbst, Ross Smith, Australia and the World: Thinking Historically , page 55,
    • Diggers were angered by frequent licence inspections and harassment by ‘the traps ’ (the goldfield police).
  • (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular English) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
  • (slang, informal, pejorative) A person with male genitalia who can be mistaken for a female; a convincing transvestite or transwoman.
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  • A kind of movable stepladder.
    • (Knight)
    Synonyms
    * snare
    Derived terms
    * activity trap * beartrap/bear trap * betrap * booby trap * bus trap * firetrap * fish-trap * honey trap * mantrap * mousetrap * offside trap * optical trap * radar trap * rattletrap * speed trap * tourist trap * trapdoor * (l)

    Verb

    (trapp)
  • To physically , to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Stephen P. Lownie], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/david-m-pelz David M. Pelz
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Stents to Prevent Stroke , passage=As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.}}
  • To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
  • * Dryden
    • I trapped the foe.
  • To provide with a trap.
  • To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.
  • To leave suddenly, to flee.
  • (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular English) (slang) To sell narcotics, especially in a public area.
  • (computing) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.

    • Related terms

    * entrap * entrapment

    Etymology 2

    (Trap rock) From (etyl) trapp, from .

    Noun

    (-)
  • A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
    • Derived terms
    * trappean * trappous * trappy

    Etymology 3

    Akin to (etyl) .

    Verb

    (trapp)
  • To dress with ornaments; to adorn; said especially of horses.
  • * Spenser
    • to deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed
  • * Tennyson
    • There she found her palfrey trapped / In purple blazoned with armorial gold.

    Etymology 4

    Shortening.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, bodybuilding) trapezius (muscle)

    • Anagrams

    * part * prat * rapt * tarp ----