drill A drill is a tool used for making round holes or driving fasteners. It is fitted with a bit, either a drill or driverchuck. Hand-operated types are dramatically decreasing in popularity and cordless battery-powered ones proliferating due to ...

is a tool or machine for cutting holes in a material. Drill may also refer to:

Animals

Drill (animal) The drill (''Mandrillus leucophaeus'') is a primate of the family Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys), related to baboons and even more closely to mandrills. Description The drill is a short-tailed monkey up to long, similar in appearance to ...

, a type of African primate *

Oyster drill ''Urosalpinx cinerea'', common name the eastern oyster drill or Atlantic oyster drill, is a species of small predatory sea snail, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Muricidae, the murexes or rock snails. T ...

, a type of snail

Military

Military exercise A military exercise or war game is the employment of military resources in training for military operations, either exploring the effects of warfare or testing strategies without actual combat. This also serves the purpose of ensuring the com ...

Foot drill Foot drill is a part of the training regimen of organized military and paramilitary elements worldwide. "Foot drill" or "Drill" stems from time since antiquity when soldiers would march into battle, be expected to gather in a formation, and reac ...

, the movements performed on a

military parade A military parade is a formation of soldiers whose movement is restricted by close-order manoeuvering known as drilling or marching. The military parade is now almost entirely ceremonial, though soldiers from time immemorial up until the lat ...

* Former name of the United States Army Reserve's

Battle Assembly Battle Assembly is the term used by the United States Army Reserve to describe monthly training, where soldiers practice and perfect their military skills and maintain individual and unit readiness in the event of mobilization and deployment. The ...

Exhibition drill Exhibition drill is a variant of drill that involves complex marching sequences which usually deviate from drill used in the course of ordinary parades. Teams performing exhibition drill are often affiliated with military units, but the scope of ...

, a form of complex military drill *

Drill commands Drill commands are generally used with a group that is marching, most often in military foot drills or in a marching band. Drill commands are usually heard in major events involving service personnel, reservists and veterans of a country's arm ...

* When applied as an adjective, a practice version of something, e.g., drill round

Music

Drill music Drill is a subgenre of hip hop music that originated in Chicago streets in the early 2010s. It is sonically similar to the trap music subgenre and lyrically similar to the gangsta rap subgenre. Drill music progressed into the American mainstre ...

, a subgenre of trap music

Performers

Drill (band) Drill was an American alternative/ hard rock band from New York City, United States, that formed in 1993. The band is perhaps best known as being headed by vocalist Lucia Cifarelli, with members that included guitarist Dan Harnett, future Black ...

, an alternative rock band * Drill (UK band), an industrial rock band from England *

The Drill (band) The Drill is an international chart topping house music record written produced and performed by electronic music pioneer and Israeli-born UK producer Matt Schwartz. He is also responsible for hits under his "Dada" and "Deepest Blue" and M'Black ...

, an electro house band

Recordings

* ''Drill'' (album), a 1996 album by the band of the same name * ''Drill'' (EP), a 1992 EP by Radiohead * ''The Drill'' (album), a 1991 album by Wire * ''Drill'', a 1996 album by

Noise Unit Noise Unit is a Canadian industrial band, founded by Bill Leeb of Front Line Assembly as a side project. The band has seen several changes in line-up, with Bill Leeb being the only permanent member. History Noise Unit's first album, ''Grinding in ...

* "Drill", a 2021 song by G Herbo from the album '' 25''

Safety exercises

Fire drill A fire drill is a method of practicing how a building would be evacuated in the event of a fire or other emergencies. In most cases, the building's existing fire alarm system is activated and the building is evacuated by means of the nearest a ...

Tornado drill The term "tornado preparedness" refers to safety precautions made before the arrival of and during a tornado. Historically, the steps taken have varied greatly, depending on location, or time remaining before a tornado was expected. For example, i ...

Lockdown A lockdown is a restriction policy for people, community or a country to stay where they are, usually due to specific risks (such as COVID-19) that could possibly harm the people if they move and interact freely. The term is used for a prison ...

drill

Technology

Bow drill A bow drill is a simple hand-operated type of tool, consisting of a rod (the ''spindle'' or ''drill shaft'') that is set in rapid rotary motion by means of a cord wrapped around it, kept taut by a bow which is pushed back and forth with one han ...

, a fire-making tool *

Drill (agriculture) A seed drill is a device used in agriculture that sows seeds for crops by positioning them in the soil and burying them to a specific depth while being dragged by a tractor. This ensures that seeds will be distributed evenly. The seed drill sow ...

, an agricultural tool *

Drill (fabric) Drill is stout durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave. It can be used unbleached, although it is more often bleached or dyed. Use in clothing Light weight drill is used in clothing items such as shirts, safari ja ...

, a type of cotton fabric *

Data drilling Data drilling (also drilldown) refers to any of various operations and transformations on tabular, relational, and multidimensional data. The term has widespread use in various contexts, but is primarily associated with specialized software design ...

, navigation through levels of a hierarchy in data analysis *

Apache Drill Apache Drill is an open-source software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications for interactive analysis of large-scale datasets. Built chiefly by contributions from developers from MapR, Drill is inspired by Google's D ...

, a distributed query engine

Other uses

Drill, Virginia Drill is an unincorporated community in Russell and Buchanan Counties, Virginia, United States. History A post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, pr ...

, a community in the United States *

Dan Drill The 2014 University of Minnesota rape case was widely publicized by the American media as it highlighted the inadequacies of police responses to victims of sexual assault. The victim in the case, 19 year old Abby Honold, afterwards sought to establi ...

, University of Minnesota student charged with a violent rape *

Lew Drill Lewis L. Drill (May 9, 1877 – July 4, 1969) was an American baseball player, baseball manager, and lawyer. He played professional baseball as a catcher for eight years from 1902 to 1909, including four years in Major League Baseball with the ...

(1877–1969), American baseball player, baseball manager, and lawyer