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ELECTRIC DRILL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electric drill mean? 

ELECTRIC DRILL (noun)
  The noun ELECTRIC DRILL has 1 sense:

1. a rotating power drill powered by an electric motorplay

  Familiarity information: ELECTRIC DRILL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ELECTRIC DRILL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A rotating power drill powered by an electric motor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("electric drill" is a kind of...):

power drill (a power tool for drilling holes into hard materials)

Meronyms (parts of "electric drill"):

chuck (a holding device consisting of adjustable jaws that center a workpiece in a lathe or center a tool in a drill)

electric motor (a motor that converts electricity to mechanical work)

Holonyms ("electric drill" is a part of...):

drill press (a machine tool with a separate, upright stand; an electric drill is pressed into the work automatically or with a hand lever)

Derivation:

drill (make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool)


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