Drill vs. Stab

A drill or drilling machine is a tool primarily used for making round holes or driving fasteners. It is fitted with a bit, either a drill or driver, depending on application, secured by a chuck.

To pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon.

a tool or machine with a rotating cutting tip or reciprocating hammer or chisel, used for making holes.

To plunge (a pointed weapon or instrument) into something.

instruction or training in military exercises

To make a thrusting or poking motion at or into

a predatory mollusc that bores into the shells of other molluscs in order to feed on the soft tissue.

To thrust with or as if with a pointed weapon

a machine which makes small furrows, sows seed in them, and then covers the seed with earth.

To inflict a wound with or as if with a pointed weapon.

a dark brown baboon with a short tail and a naked blue or purple rump, found in the rainforests of West Africa.

A thrust with a pointed weapon or instrument.

a coarse twilled cotton or linen fabric

A wound inflicted with or as if with a pointed weapon.

produce (a hole) in something by or as if by boring with a drill

A sudden piercing pain.

subject (someone) to military training exercises

An attempt; a try

sow (seed) with a drill

An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.

An implement with cutting edges or a pointed end for boring holes in hard materials, usually by a rotating abrasion or repeated blows; a bit.

A wound made by stabbing.

The hand-operated or hand-powered holder for this implement.

Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.

A loud, harsh noise made by or as if by a powered tool of this kind.

(informal) An attempt.

Disciplined, repetitious exercise as a means of teaching and perfecting a skill or procedure.

Criticism.

A task or exercise for teaching a skill or procedure by repetition

(music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.

The training of soldiers in marching and the manual of arms.

A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.

Any of various marine gastropod mollusks, chiefly of the genus Urosalpinx, that bore holes into the shells of bivalve mollusks. U. cinera is destructive to oysters.

The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.

A shallow trench or furrow in which seeds are planted.

(industrial relations) establishment

A row of planted seeds.

(transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.

A machine or implement for planting seeds in holes or furrows.

(transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.

Durable cotton or linen twill of varying weights, generally used for work clothes.

(intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).

A large monkey (Mandrillus leucophaeus) of west-central African forests, having an olive brown body and a brightly colored face and resembling the mandrill.

(intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).

To make a hole in (a hard material) with a drill

To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.

To make (a hole) with or as if with a drill

(transitive) To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.

To strike or hit sharply

(transitive) To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.

To instruct thoroughly by repetition in a skill or procedure

To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.

To infuse knowledge of or skill in by repetitious instruction

Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.

To train (soldiers) in marching and the manual of arms.

To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.

To make a hole with or as if with a drill.

To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.

To perform a training exercise.

The thrust of a pointed weapon.

To sow (seeds) in rows.

A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab of an assassin.

To plant (a field) in drills.

Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.

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

a sudden sharp feeling;

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

a thrusting blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument;

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

informal words for any attempt or effort;

(transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.

use a knife on;

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

stab or pierce;

(transitive) To hit or kick with a lot of power.

poke or thrust abruptly;

(baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.

To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.

(slang) To shoot; to kill.

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

(transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.

To protract, lengthen out; fritter away, spend (time) aimlessly.

To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.

To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.

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

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

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

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.

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

A row of seed sown in a furrow.

(obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.

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.

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.

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.

To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.

To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.

To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.

To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; - with on.

To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.

To trickle.

To sow in drills.

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.

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.

Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.

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.

A small trickling stream; a rill.

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

A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophæus).

Same as Drilling.

a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)

similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored

systematic training by multiple repetitions;

(military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms

make a hole with a pointed power or hand tool;

train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons

learn by repetition;

teach by repetition

undergo military training or do military exercises