drill vs train

drill

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

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

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

  • 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. 

train

verb
  • To practice an ability. 

  • To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending. 

  • To improve one's fitness. 

  • To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game). 

  • To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone). 

  • To proceed in sequence. 

  • To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction. 

  • To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head. 

noun
  • A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc. 

  • A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence. 

  • A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere or accompanying a comet as it nears the sun; tail. 

  • A group of people following an important figure such as a king or noble; a retinue, a group of retainers. 

  • A group or class of people. 

  • A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something. 

  • A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder. 

  • A series of specified vehicles (originally tramcars in a mine as usual, later especially railway carriages) coupled together. 

  • The tail of a bird. 

  • A mechanical (traditionally steam-powered, now typically diesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers and freight along a designated track or path; a line of connected cars or carriages considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail or road travel. 

  • The elongated body or form of something narrow and winding, such as the course of a river or the body of a snake. 

  • The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege. 

  • An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape. 

  • A set of things, events, or circumstances that follow after or as a consequence; aftermath, wake. 

  • A series of electrical pulses. 

  • The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground. 

  • A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession. 

  • A software release schedule. 

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