| 单词 | drill |
| 释义 | drill drill // verb, noun
■ verb [+ obj or no obj]
to make a deep hole in the ground using a machine, in order to look for valuable natural substances, especially oil or gas: They're drilling for oil off the Irish coast.
drilling noun [U]: Drilling should begin next year. The company has drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
PHRASAL VERBS
drill down (IT ) to go to deeper and deeper levels of an organized set of data on a computer or a website in order to find more and more detail: You can view orders by customer and date and then drill down to view individual order details, invoices and payments. We can drill down into the data to create lists of customers matching specific criteria.
■ noun [C]
a tool or machine with a pointed end for making holes: an electric drill a drill bit (= the pointed part at the end of the drill) |
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