drill vs recall

drill

verb
  • To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it. 

  • To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool). 

  • To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate. 

  • To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts. 

  • To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling. 

  • To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context. 

  • To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context. 

  • To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level 

  • To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row. 

  • To shoot; to kill. 

  • To hit or kick with a lot of power. 

noun
  • A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing. 

  • A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition. 

  • A row of seed sown in a furrow. 

  • The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit. 

  • Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that drill holes in the shells of other animals. 

  • An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face. 

  • A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave. 

  • A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece. 

  • A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago. 

  • An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. 

  • An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence. 

recall

verb
  • To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect. 

  • To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc. 

  • To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote. 

  • To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. 

  • To call again, to call another time. 

  • To request or order the return of (a faulty product). 

  • To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order). 

noun
  • Memory; the ability to remember. 

  • The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search. 

  • The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state. 

  • Request of the return of a faulty product. 

  • The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters. 

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