Drilling vs. Grilling — What's the Difference?

Drilling is a cutting process that uses a drill bit to cut a hole of circular cross-section in solid materials. The drill bit is usually a rotary cutting tool, often multi-point.

Grilling is a form of cooking that involves dry heat applied to the surface of food, commonly from above, below or from the side. Grilling usually involves a significant amount of direct, radiant heat, and tends to be used for cooking meat and vegetables quickly.

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.

To broil on a gridiron.

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

To torture or afflict as if by broiling.

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

(Informal) To question relentlessly; cross-examine.

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

To mark or emboss with a gridiron.

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

A cooking surface of parallel metal bars; a gridiron.

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

Food cooked by broiling or grilling.

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.

An informal restaurant or a room in a restaurant where grilled foods are served. Also called grillroom.

A shallow trench or furrow in which seeds are planted.

A series of marks grilled or embossed on a surface.

A row of planted seeds.

Variant of grille.

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

Present participle of grill

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

(informal) A thorough interrogation.

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

The act or process of grilling, or broiling.

To strike or hit sharply

Cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill)

To instruct thoroughly by repetition in a skill or procedure

To infuse knowledge of or skill in by repetitious instruction

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

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

To perform a training exercise.

To sow (seeds) in rows.

To plant (a field) in drills.

Present participle of drill

Act of drilling.

A long firearm with three barrels (typically a mix of shotgun and rifle barrels).

The act of piercing with a drill.

A training by repeated exercises.

The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.

A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.

The act of drilling

The act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum