drill site
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4.8
- noun
- /drɪl saɪt/
- Specialized
:
sitio de perforación
- He would have to fix the fence before anybody's cows got through, but he hadn't seen any cattle close to the drill site all week, so there was no big rush.
Examples
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We weren't as happy with the first drill site, although it threw up some surprises and made for an interesting story!
Blog text (19) -
In many cases, you can't even pump rainwater off of a drill site.
Blog text (14) -
This is before sunlight hits the drill site.
Fiction book (1998) -
Are there half a million plus viable drill sites left in the Bakken?
Blog text (8) -
From here we flew into East Grip, an ice core drilling site that sits on top of three kilometers of ice.
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Some of Rune's stats seem to indicate that even the currently developing drill sites are showing decreasing productivity in a very short period of time.
Blog text (8) -
In addition to the amount of water involved and the huge quantities of chemical-containing wastewater, there is air pollution from heavy machinery at the drill sites and hydrocarbons released by the wells, which scientists are just beginning to investigate.
Blog text (23) -
To resolve those and other claims, the MDL PSC negotiated two new class settlements, one with Halliburton, the provider of the cement used at the original BP drill site, in 2014, and another with Transocean, the owners of the drilling rig, in 2015.
Academic text (2017) -
The engineers confirmed that the new drill site would be ready for operation next month.
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Before starting, the team conducted a survey to assess the environmental impact of the drill site.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a location where drilling occurs' is directly and compositionally derived from 'drill' (tool/action of making holes) + 'site' (location). This N+N compound follows a regular, cross-linguistic pattern and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Drill site comes from the plain picture of a spot where a big machine called a drill is set up on a site to bore into the ground to get oil or minerals. So, it now means 'a place where drilling for resources happens'.