单词 | drill-down |
释义 | drill-downn. 1. Military. A drill exercise in which a number of troops, cadets, etc., compete with each other to follow the drill commands for the longest, those who fail to do so being eliminated from the drill formation until one person is left. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > type of drill or training sham fight1598 field exercise1616 martinet1677 field evolutions1789 foot drill1795 goose-step1806 war-game1828 rope drill1833 field training1836 repetition training1859 skeleton drill1876 drill-down1889 Beast Barracks1896 basic training1898 monkey motion1909 assault course1915 TEWT1942 workup1971 Taceval1977 1889 Eau Claire (Wisconsin) Daily Leader 1 Aug. At the conclusion of each drill there is considerable excitement as the men drill their best to determine which is the best man... There will be a drill down every evening this week. 1898 Belfast News-let. 27 Apr. 5/2 One of the members gained first place, out of sixteen competitors, for the best drilled boy at a ‘drill down’ at the battalion demonstration. 1919 R. L. Thompson Hist. 310th Infantry 78th Div. vi. 212 Lieutenant Korkus and his platoon from ‘M’ Company won the drill-down from all the other infantry units in the Division. 2002 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 9 Sept. (Neighbor section) 2 The girls also participated in a ‘drill down’, where they performed military commands and competed against one another until one girl was left. 2. Computing. The selection and accessing of data which is at a lower level of a hierarchically structured information system; the retrieval of more detailed information about a particular item in a database. Also: a facility or capability for doing this. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > data > database > [noun] > access or retrieval access1948 retrieval1954 data retrieval1955 drill-down1987 1987 InfoWorld 10 Aug. 37 Drill down is the essence of management reporting. 1989 Independent 6 Feb. 18/6 EIS contains a ‘drill-down’ facility, allowing executives to penetrate supporting data when the system identifies something dubious. 1996 Byte Oct. 72/2 You create drill-down hyperlinks to other pages by use of HTML anchor tags. 1997 Accountancy Apr. 53/1 (advt.) Drill down is a means of instantly displaying the underlying details of any transaction. 2007 Wired Jan. 56/1 Think Google News for tech blogs. This well-trafficked aggregator also has drill-downs for gossip, politics, and baseball. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1889 |
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