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Meaning of "drill down" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DRILL DOWN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRILL DOWN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Drill down is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb drill down in English.

WHAT DOES DRILL DOWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Drill down

In information technology to drill down means to move from one place to another, information to detailed data by focusing in on something. In a GUI-environment, "drilling-down" may involve clicking on some representation in order to reveal more detail. To drill down through a series of notebooks, for example, on a desktop means to move through the hierarchy of folders to find a specific file or to click through drop-down menus in a GUI. Clicking on an item moves you to a level of greater detail. When an online user accesses more and more pages of the website, he or she may delve deeper into the content of the site. As a web-surfer goes further into a website, he or she goes deeper into the back pages and thus deeper into data. Drilling down through a database involves accessing information by starting with a general category and moving through the hierarchy: from category to file/table to record to field. When one drills down, one performs de facto data analysis on a parent attribute. Drilling down provides a method of exploring multidimensional data by moving from one level of detail to the next. Drill-down levels depend on the data granularity.

Definition of drill down in the English dictionary

The definition of drill down in the dictionary is to look at or examine something in depth.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DRILL DOWN

PRESENT

Present
I drill down
you drill down
he/she/it drills down
we drill down
you drill down
they drill down
Present continuous
I am drilling down
you are drilling down
he/she/it is drilling down
we are drilling down
you are drilling down
they are drilling down
Present perfect
I have drilled down
you have drilled down
he/she/it has drilled down
we have drilled down
you have drilled down
they have drilled down
Present perfect continuous
I have been drilling down
you have been drilling down
he/she/it has been drilling down
we have been drilling down
you have been drilling down
they have been drilling down
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I drilled down
you drilled down
he/she/it drilled down
we drilled down
you drilled down
they drilled down
Past continuous
I was drilling down
you were drilling down
he/she/it was drilling down
we were drilling down
you were drilling down
they were drilling down
Past perfect
I had drilled down
you had drilled down
he/she/it had drilled down
we had drilled down
you had drilled down
they had drilled down
Past perfect continuous
I had been drilling down
you had been drilling down
he/she/it had been drilling down
we had been drilling down
you had been drilling down
they had been drilling down
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will drill down
you will drill down
he/she/it will drill down
we will drill down
you will drill down
they will drill down
Future continuous
I will be drilling down
you will be drilling down
he/she/it will be drilling down
we will be drilling down
you will be drilling down
they will be drilling down
Future perfect
I will have drilled down
you will have drilled down
he/she/it will have drilled down
we will have drilled down
you will have drilled down
they will have drilled down
Future perfect continuous
I will have been drilling down
you will have been drilling down
he/she/it will have been drilling down
we will have been drilling down
you will have been drilling down
they will have been drilling down
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would drill down
you would drill down
he/she/it would drill down
we would drill down
you would drill down
they would drill down
Conditional continuous
I would be drilling down
you would be drilling down
he/she/it would be drilling down
we would be drilling down
you would be drilling down
they would be drilling down
Conditional perfect
I would have drill down
you would have drill down
he/she/it would have drill down
we would have drill down
you would have drill down
they would have drill down
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been drilling down
you would have been drilling down
he/she/it would have been drilling down
we would have been drilling down
you would have been drilling down
they would have been drilling down
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you drill down
we let´s drill down
you drill down
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to drill down
Past participle
drilled down
Present Participle
drilling down
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DRILL DOWN

driftwood
drifty
drill
drill pipe
drill press
drill sergeant
drill string
drillability
drillable
driller
drilling
drilling fluid
drilling mud
drilling platform
drilling rig
drilling ship
drillmaster
drillship
drillstock
drily

WORDS THAT END LIKE DRILL DOWN

back down
break down
bring the house down
cut down
down
get down
go down
hands down
hold down
lay down
put down
ride down
sit down
step down
take down
turn down
up and down
upside down
when the chips are down
wind down
write down

Synonyms and antonyms of drill down in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «drill down» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DRILL DOWN

Find out the translation of drill down to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of drill down from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «drill down» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

深入
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

profundizar
570 millions of speakers

English

drill down
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नीचे ड्रिल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

انتقل لأسفل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

развернуть
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

drill down
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিচে ড্রিল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

forer vers le bas
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

mengesan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Drill-down
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ドリルダウンする
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

드릴 다운
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngebor mudhun
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đi sâu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கீழே பயிற்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खाली भोक पाडणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

derinlemesine
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

drill-down
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

drążyć
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розгорнути
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

detalia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

drill down
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

boor af
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bläddra ner
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bore ned
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of drill down

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DRILL DOWN»

The term «drill down» is quite widely used and occupies the 50.087 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DRILL DOWN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «drill down» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «drill down» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about drill down

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRILL DOWN»

Discover the use of drill down in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to drill down and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Crystal Reports XI Official Guide
Understanding Drill-down Reports As you have learned, grouping data facilitates data analysis for business users and enables meaningful summarizations in your reports. Having both the group level and the detail level data available in a ...
Neil Fitzgerald, et al., 2006
2
No Stress Tech Guide to Crystal Reports for Visual Studio ...
When you drill-down on the first group, you usually don't have a need to see the headers for the second group. To prevent this from happening, you would use the formula shown below to conditionally suppress the second level group headers ...
Indera Murphy, 2008
3
Client-Side Reporting with Visual Studio in C#
As we are developing reports for the new client here, let me also show another reporting technique of RS—the drill-down feature of RS. You'll see how certain parts of a report can be toggled to hide and unhide based on a user's choice.
Asif Sayed, 2007
4
Sams Teach Yourself Crystal Reports 9 in 24 Hours
There are situations, however, in which a report consumer or analyst will want to view only aggregated group level information initially and then selectively drill- down into detail records where relevant (that is, drill-down only where the ...
Neil Fitzgerald, 2002
5
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services For Dummies
Consider pivoting during a drill down. A pivot involves drilling down first on one variable and then at that drill-down level, drilling through on another variable. For example, start at the top ten customer list and then drill to a particular customer to  ...
Mark Robinson, 2005
6
Excel 2007 Dashboards and Reports For Dummies
Many dashboards provide drill-down features that allow users to “drill” into the details of a specific measure. You want to get a clear understanding of the types of drill-downs your users have in mind. To most users, drill-down feature means the ...
Michael Alexander, 2011
7
Data Mining, Southeast Asia Edition: Concepts and Techniques
Drill-down can be realized by either stepping down a concept hierarchy for a dimension or introducing additional dimensions. Figure 3.10 shows the result of a drill-down operation performed on the central cube by stepping down a concept ...
Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, 2006
8
Sas/graph 9. 3: Reference, Second Edition
Provides a comprehensive reference to all the features and options available with SAS/GRAPH software.
SAS Institute, 2011
9
Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and ...
At its simplest, a drill down is a hyperlink that links back into Dynamics GP. When the user clicks the hyperlink, the focus changes to Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013, and the linked window opens in GP with the appropriate data. In the real world, ...
Mark Polino, 2013
10
Crystal Reports 2008 For Dummies
In Chapter 6, I give you a brief look at summary reports and how to drill down into them to see the hidden detail they contain. By making a simple selection from the Section Formatting menu, you can choose to either display or hide a report's ...
Allen G. Taylor, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRILL DOWN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term drill down is used in the context of the following news items.
1
How to access your iTunes library from any iOS or Android device
From there, you can just drill down to the share that houses your iTunes library. You can then browse through all of the folders that contain your ... «CNET, Jul 15»
2
Boston Apartment Rents 4th Highest In Nation
Let's drill down on the numbers a bit. So your rent costs about $2000 dollars on average, right? “That's an effective rent, which means after any ... «CBS Local, Jul 15»
3
Transportation chief vows 'muscular' safety oversight
... of the agency to really drill down and start making necessary changes and the process of making changes is not always as much fun.”. «The Detroit News, Jul 15»
4
Ana Apatu: Making city safer a sausage at a time
Many of our projects are intended to "drill down to feed up". How do we keep Hastings safe? We have agreed to focus on particular areas this ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
5
Hands-on: Apple News in iOS 9 looks sexy on an iPad
The nice thing about these is that they drill down into smaller sub-categories. For instance, under Politics, you'll find subcategories like “tax ... «VentureBeat, Jul 15»
6
Land agency: Ranger's stolen handgun used in pier slaying
"I'm not sure how we're going to stop it but we're determined to drill down on that and see what can be done." Also post on Facebook. Comment ... «KTVU San Francisco, Jul 15»
7
Rotarians Learn About Regional Employment Trends Survey
Woods mentioned several times during his presentation that researchers still need to "drill down" into the data to precisely determine what the ... «Effingham's News Leader, Jul 15»
8
CommScope Focuses on User Experience in Latest DCIM Software …
Enhanced Reporting Viewer lets users filter reports, making it easier to drill down, isolate and leverage vital information, according to the ... «Data Center Knowledge, Jul 15»
9
Hillary Clinton's worst nightmare is a good opponent
No wonder the Republican National Committee is poised to drill down on her State Department record, according to news reports (“By raising ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
10
City manager says repairs underway on vessel
The company may have other vessels in its fleet that can deploy the system, which is required to be on hand when drilling vessels drill down ... «Alaskajournal.com, Jul 15»

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