Translation for '
to drill' from English to Russian
VERB | to drill | drilled | drilled drilling | drills | |
SYNO | drill | exercise | Mandrillus leucophaeus | ... |
VERB to infinitive | simple past | past participle
present participle | 3rd person
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Usage Examples English
- This dispute flared up in June 2000 in response to an effort by a Canadian company to drill for oil under a Guyanese concession.
- Steinbach said that the authorities would like to drill for more water there and outsource any additional supply if necessary.
- Gold began testing his theory in 1986 when, with the backing of a group of investors, Vattenfall and the Gas Research Institute, he commenced efforts to drill a deep borehole – named Gravberg-1 – into the earth near Lake Siljan in search of abiogenic gas in the mantle.
- Bow drills with green jasper bits were used in Mehrgarh between the 4th and 5th millennium BC to drill holes into lapis lazuli and carnelian.
- In the 1980s, Pagosa Springs received federal funding from the Department of Energy to drill two geothermal wells to heat buildings in the small downtown area of the town.
- to strike water during this period, well over twice as deep as they have had to drill in the town’s history.
- By plan, the following summer, the team was to drill down again to take a sample of that ice and analyze it.
- The story that Chinese workers were suspended in wicker baskets over vertical granite cliffs at Cape Horn, California, to drill and blast a ledge for the Central Pacific has been repeated and exaggerated by uncritical historians.
- Small hole EDM is used to drill rows of holes into the leading and trailing edges of turbine blades used in jet engines.
- The Texas Fuel Company was not set up to drill wells or to produce crude oil.
- The bow drill was used to drill holes into carnelian in Mehrgarh in the 4th-5th millennium BC.
- In the ichneumon wasp genus "Megarhyssa", the females have a slender ovipositor (terebra) several inches long that is used to drill into the wood of tree trunks.
- Horizontal drillhole disposal describes proposals to drill over one km vertically, and two km horizontally in the earth’s crust, for the purpose of disposing of high-level waste forms such as spent nuclear fuel, Caesium-137, or Strontium-90.
- X-Ray Spex's other distinctive musical element was Poly Styrene's voice, which has been variously described as "effervescently discordant" and "powerful enough to drill holes through sheet metal".
- The Sumba Foundation has been active in raising sponsorship to drill wells in villages and attempting to reduce poverty on the island.
- Care is required to keep the outer shield from touching the spike; installation kits include a "coring tool" to drill through the outer layers and a "braid pick" to clear stray pieces of the outer shield.
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