how to pronounce drilling

/ˈdɹɪlɪŋ/

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drilling is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of drilling in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… cropped out 51,000 drilling and refining …”

meanings of drilling

noun:

A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton; drill.
A long firearm with three (or rarely, four) barrels.
Act of drilling.

verb:

Present participle of drill.

drilling frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word drilling occurs in english on average 4.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics drilling can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that drilling can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;