1 an activity that practises a particular skill and often involves repeating the same thing several times, especially a military exercise intended to train soldiers:
In some of these schools, army-style drills are used to instil a sense of discipline.
a spelling/pronunciation drill
3 to practise something, especially military exercises, or to make someone do this:
5 to make someone practice a skill by repeating the same thing several times:
The teacher drills them in arithmetic every day.
6 a tool or machine that cuts or digs into something to make holes
7 practice involving repetition of an activity in order to improve a skill, or a particular occasion for such practice:
8 to make a deep hole in the ground with a special machine in order to look for oil, gas, etc.:
The well was about 80 m deep, and drilled at a slight angle towards the buildings.
Separated from their surrounding rock, the fossils are dissected with fine chisels and delicate drills and then photographed.
Dental inlay involves drilling holes and inserting various materials therein.
Scrapers, drills etc. are shown and 'explained' by displaying them next to a modern variant.
Several edges of this plaque appear smoke-smudged, and drilled depressions probably held inlays.
Each palaeomagnetic site comprises between 7 and 12 independently drilled 2.4-cm-diameter short cores in a single rock unit.
Most of these boreholes were drilled in the 1970s and 1980s for water pumping and are out of use at present.
In most cases these holes were drilled bilaterally.
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broca, furar com broca…
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perceuse [feminine], exercice [masculine], entraînement [masculine]…
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