Drill : Verbe (word from popular Latin pertusiare, pertundere " drill ").
The verb “pierce” has many meanings:
I) Transitive verb:
HAS . Dig, cross.
1 To make a hole in (a solid object) (perforate, pierce).
Drill a board, a wall, a wall using a tool (drill, punch).
Drilling instruments: drill, bit, wick, drill, perforator, perforator, awl, needle, trephine, crankshaft, gimlet.
Pierce a tire (puncture).
drill a tonneau (to pierce).
Pierce right through (pierce).
Adjectival past participle: Pierced shoes. Pierced pocket.
Spendthrift.
Pierced chair.
To cross, to pierce (a part of the body).
To pierce the ears, the tongue (piercing) to put rings there.
Pierce an abscess (puncture, incise, open).
Figurative meaning: The bones pierce his skin : he is very skinny.
2. Aged Meaning: To injure (someone) with a pointed weapon (injure, kill).
Pierce with blows (riddle, lard).
To pierce someone through and through (with a sword, a pitchfork) (synonyms: to skewer, to impale, to bury, to straddle).
Draw a heart pierced with an arrow (symbol of love).
Figurative phrase: Pierce the heart: to afflict, to make suffer.
3. Practice in (something) an opening that can serve as a passage.
Drill a rock to make a tunnel.
Drill a safe.
4. Crossing (a protection, an intermediate medium).
Shower that pierces the clothes (pierce).
The sun breaks through the clouds.
Sound that pierces the silence (tear).
Screams that pierce the eardrum (piercing).
People: Pushing his way through. Troops breaking through the front lines of enemy armies.
Pierce the crowd.
5. Aged sense To pierce someone with one's gaze (to pierce; piercing).
Figurative and literary meaning: Managing to discover (a secret, a mystery) (detect, penetrate).
The mystery has been solved.
Phrase: Finding out: getting to know (what was kept hidden, secret).
Drill someone up to date (see clearly in his game).
B. To practice, to make (a hole, an opening).
Drill a hole, a tunnel, a path (drilling).
Pierce a street, an avenue. Drill a door, a window.
II) Intransitive verb:
1 Clear a passage by making an opening, a hole.
Things: The baby has a tooth that is piercing (pushing).
Abscess that pierces (to burst).
The sun begins to break through (through the clouds).
People: The enemies couldn't break through (breakthrough).
Sport: The center forward pierces.
2. Figurative: To detect oneself, to manifest oneself, to show oneself. Nothing has pierced through their maintenance (filtering, transpiring, showing through).
3. Acquire the notoriety (to succeed).
Comedian who has trouble breaking through.
Opposites of piercing: butcher, close, close, obstruct.