drill

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for drill

drill 🔊 /dɹɪˈl/

drill : විදිනවා

drill : විදුම් යන්ත්‍රය

drill : විදුම් යත

drill : බීජ වපුරන පේළිය

drill : නිතර පුරුදු කරනවා

drill : සරඹ

drill : විත

drill : බුරුමය

drill : විදමනය

drill : පිළිවෙළට වපුරනවා

drill : කඩුවෙන් සිදුරු කරනවා

drill : බුරුමයෙන් සිදුරු කරනවා

drill : තොරපණය

drill : සරඹ පුහු

drill : විදින කටුව

drill : නිතර පුරුදු කිරීම

drill : ඝන රෙදි වර්ගයක්

drill definition

Transitive verb.

  1. To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.
  2. To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline.
  3. To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.
  4. To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.
  5. To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.
  6. To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.

Intransitive verb.

  1. To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
  2. To trickle.
  3. To sow in drills.

Noun.

  1. An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press.
  2. The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.
  3. Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.
  4. A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea.
  5. A small trickling stream; a rill.
  6. An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
  7. A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.
  8. A row of seed sown in a furrow.
  9. A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).
  10. Same as Drilling.