DRILLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drilled mean? 

• DRILLED (adjective)
  The adjective DRILLED has 1 sense:

1. trained in a skill by repetitious practice

  Familiarity information: DRILLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRILLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Trained in a skill by repetitious practice

Context example:

well-drilled in military procedures

Similar:

trained (shaped or conditioned or disciplined by training; often used as a combining form)

 Context examples 

The rover's mineralogy instrument, called CheMin (Chemistry and Mineralogy), provided the first analyses of rock samples drilled in the clay-bearing unit.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Finds a Clay Cache, NASA)

To identify organic material in the Martian soil, Curiosity drilled into sedimentary rocks known as mudstone from four areas in Gale Crater.

(NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars, NASA)

You have lived the life of a nun: no doubt you are well drilled in religious forms;—Brocklehurst, who I understand directs Lowood, is a parson, is he not?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In July 2015, on Sol 1060 (the number of Martian days since landing), the rover collected powder drilled from rock at a location named "Buckskin."

(NASA Scientists Discover Unexpected Mineral on Mars, NASA)

Curiosity has analyzed rock samples drilled from three targets lower on the mountain in the past seven months.

(Curiosity Eyes Prominent Mineral Veins on Mars, NASA)

Researchers plan to use the rover to collect and analyze a drilled sample of Stimson unit sandstone this month.

(Mars Panorama from Curiosity Shows Petrified Sand Dunes, NASA)

He had turned suddenly, and his long, thin finger was pointing to a hole which had been drilled right through the lower window-sash, about an inch above the bottom.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They drilled a series of wells and collected water samples to identify which microbes call the aquifer home and whether they're capable of consuming carbon.

(Microbes in underground aquifers beneath deep-sea Mid-Atlantic Ridge 'chow down' on carbon, National Science Foundation)

A tablet with a semi-permeable membrane composed of active and/or inert ingredient(s) and an osmotic agent with a laser drilled central core.

(Osmotic Laser Drilled Tablet Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with an undesired material damage characterized by closely spaced punched or drilled holes.

(Medical Device Material Perforation, Food and Drug Administration)