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kaira — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • auger noun A tool with a spiralling metal shaft used for boring holes in wood, ice or ground, turned by hand with a brace or driven by a machine.
  • drill verb To make a hole in something using a rotating cutting tool.
  • wilderness noun A wild, natural area with no human settlement or cultivation.

Senses

kaira is used for these senses in English:

  • auger A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.
  • core drill A device used to remove a cylinder-shaped sample of material for examination
  • drill The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
  • wilderness (uncountable) Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.

auger — full definition

  1. noun A tool with a spiralling metal shaft used for boring holes in wood, ice or ground, turned by hand with a brace or driven by a machine.
  2. noun A rotating helical screw inside a tube or trough that moves loose material such as grain, snow, wood pellets or concrete along its length.
  3. verb To bore or drill a hole using such a tool.

drill — full definition

  1. verb To make a hole in something using a rotating cutting tool.
  2. verb To practise something repeatedly, often in a military or training context, until it becomes automatic.
  3. noun A tool or machine used for boring holes.
  4. noun A repeated practice exercise designed to build a skill or prepare for an emergency.
  5. noun A dark, gritty style of trap music known for aggressive, often violent lyrics.

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