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DRILLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Trained in a skill by repetitious practice
Example:
well-drilled in military procedures
Classified under:
Similar:
trained (shaped or conditioned or disciplined by training; often used as a combining form)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb drill
Context examples:
Ice cores drilled from a glacier in a cave in Transylvania offer new evidence of how Europe's winter weather and climate patterns fluctuated during the last 10,000 years, known as the Holocene period.
(Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past, NSF)
The cores, drilled in the Bighorn Basin in Wyoming, are the first terrestrial core samples of the PETM.
(Clues found on how soils may respond to climate change, National Science Foundation)
As part of the NSF-funded Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project, the researchers successfully drilled through the ice sheet in 2013 to reach Lake Whillans.
(Methane-eating bacteria in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice sheet may reduce greenhouse gas emissions, National Science Foundation)
Expedition scientists drilled deep into the seabed at six sites in water depths of more than 1,250 meters (4,101 feet).
(Scientists return from expedition to lost continent of Zealandia, National Science Foundation)
They examined cores drilled through ocean crust to see the first minerals to crystallize.
(Earth's mantle looks like a painting, National Science Foundation)
The team pieced together data from a sediment core drilled from the bottom of the Nordic Seas, a lake sediment core from southern Scandinavia, and ice cores from Greenland.
(A new study is the first to measure the time lags between changing ocean currents and major climate shifts., University of Cambridge)
Curiosity also detected different Martian organic chemicals in powder drilled from a rock dubbed Cumberland, the first definitive detection of organics in surface materials of Mars.
(Curiosity Detects Methane Spike on Mars, NASA)
The first pink light of the rising sun glittered upon the steel caps and breastplates of dense masses of slingers and of crossbowmen, who drilled and marched in the spaces which had been left for their exercise.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The mission's first two drilled samples, in an area called Yellowknife Bay near Curiosity's landing site, yielded evidence last year for an ancient lakebed environment with available energy and ingredients favorable for microbial life.
(NASA Mars Orbiter Spies Rover Near Martian Butte, NASA)
The team found evidence for nitrates in scooped samples of windblown sand and dust at the Rocknest site, and in samples drilled from mudstone at the John Klein and Cumberland drill sites in Yellowknife Bay.
(Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars, NASA)
