What's the difference between charioteer and drive?

Charioteer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who drives a chariot.
  • (n.) A constellation. See Auriga, and Wagones.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the end of last year Baez went down to Crawford, Texas, to protest outside Camp Casey with Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq; in December last year she sang Swing Low Sweet Chariot outside San Quentin prison as Tookie Williams was executed.
  • (2) The average fan remains ignorant in terms of it wanting it be Chariots of Fire.
  • (3) It is possible his delicate skills could have been of more benefit to Arsenal with longer on the pitch, though listening to the Stoke fans serenading their side at the end with Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and "One nil to the rugby team", one could understand why Wenger exercised caution, even if the rugby motif is a joke the home supporters enjoy.
  • (4) Cue that familiar gloating refrain from Stoke fans when Arsenal are in town: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” they crooned.
  • (5) Mounted bowmen succeeded chariots in warfare, particularly nomadic Scythians who dominated Central Asia (1000-500 BC).
  • (6) Now she only needed to wait, resplendent atop her chariot.
  • (7) He would not have been out of place in Chariots of Fire."
  • (8) Updated at 10.03pm BST 7.22pm BST The soothing strains of Chariots of Fire come on the stadium stereo ... ... and Poland's Tomasz Majewski collects his gold medal for winning the men's shot put in what was a thrilling competition.
  • (9) The pits are filled with figurines of courtiers and animals, and you can see the fossilised remains of wooden chariots.
  • (10) The ropes are heaved, down come the statues, Axes demolish their chariot wheels, the unoffending Legs of their horses are broken.
  • (11) Once roused from her slumbers, Nemesis would mount a two-wheeled chariot drawn by griffins (Sturmey and Archer) and, brandishing an array of carpet tacks, set out on her mission to destroy cyclists who sneered.
  • (12) In the summer of 1981, for example – as Andy Beckett recounts in his book Promised You a Miracle – the rhetoric of advertising and film projected a concerted attempt at national revival against the odds: Chariots of Fire and a Mini Metro on the white cliffs of Dover, staving off European rivals.
  • (13) Huston joins the previously announced Morgan Freeman, who will play Ildarin, a chariot race trainer.
  • (14) Havers, who made his name as the hurdler Lord Lindsay in the film Chariots of Fire and was a staple of British television in the 1980s with programmes such as The Charmer and Don't Wait Up, defended his aunt after a lawyer representing victims of child abuse, Alison Millar, told The World at One that Butler-Sloss should stand aside.
  • (15) We sing to elevate sporting events – Abide With Me, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
  • (16) Chariots is not the only theatre production currently exploring the world of sport.
  • (17) Greek sculptors in 350BC created a 40-metre-high monument, crowned by a colossal four-horse chariot on a stepped pyramid.
  • (18) The archaeologists believe it may have come from a chariot, but are only guessing since nothing like it has ever been found.
  • (19) Inscribed within this square, it stipulates that there must be “nine avenues running north-south and nine running east-west, each of the former being nine chariot tracks wide” – a principle that perhaps set the precedent for the scale of modern-day Beijing’s agoraphobia-inducing highways.
  • (20) American financiers in pink shorts and back-to-front baseball caps push the hedge fund managers of 2040 round in thousand-pound chariots, and every second store is an estate agency.” All of this is true.

Drive


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.
  • (v. t.) To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door.
  • (v. t.) To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like.
  • (v. t.) To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
  • (v. t.) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
  • (v. t.) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
  • (v. t.) To pass away; -- said of time.
  • (v. i.) To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.
  • (v. i.) To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.
  • (v. i.) To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door.
  • (v. i.) To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at.
  • (v. i.) To distrain for rent.
  • (p. p.) Driven.
  • (n.) The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.
  • (n.) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
  • (n.) Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
  • (n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.
  • (n.) A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The hemodynamic efficiency of the drive was tested in a number of in vivo experiments.
  • (2) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
  • (3) This force will be numerically similar to the net driving Starling force in small pores, but distinctly different in large pores.
  • (4) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
  • (5) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
  • (6) This hydrostatic pressure may well be the driving force for creating channels for acid and pepsin to cross the mucus layer covering the mucosal surface.
  • (7) After all, you can only drive one car at a time or go on one holiday at a time.
  • (8) The difference in APD between the first drive train and drive trains after at least 3 minutes of pacing when APD had stabilized was not significant for an inter-train pause exceeding 8 seconds.
  • (9) Analysis of caloric components (fat, protein and carbohydrates) reveals that carbohydrates are the most important factor driving the total energy effect.
  • (10) The solution of these differential equations gives the velocity of the basilar membrane and hence other related quantities, e.g., displacement, pressure, driving-point impedance at the stapes.
  • (11) The statistics underline the significant strides being taken by the industry to meet a government drive to reduce Britain's carbon emissions, although the scale of renewable energy subsidies remains controversial.
  • (12) However, because my film was dominated by a piano, I didn't want the driving-strings sound he'd used for Greenaway.
  • (13) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
  • (14) But Steven Brounstein, a lawyer for one of the officers, said: 'For the DA to be equating this case to a drive-by shooting is absurd.
  • (15) "But it is necessary to collect tax that is owed and it is necessary to reduce tax avoidance and the crown dependencies and the overseas territories need to play their part in that drive and they need to do more."
  • (16) However, there are conflicting views as to the way these patients drive.
  • (17) "We see him driving around, but he keeps to himself and we're quite close neighbours," said Libbi Darroch, as she groomed her 7-year-old showjumper Muffy at the Coatesville pony club.
  • (18) The best was the oral version of the Symbol Digit Modalities test, which by itself accounted for 70% of the variance of the full-sized-vehicle driving score.
  • (19) Mild amelioration of sleep-wakefulness cycles and impulse and drive functions could be observed clinically in both groups.
  • (20) He unleashes a scorching drive from about 18 yards, which Joe Hart tips wide via his right post.

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