(n.) One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
(n.) The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.
(n.) An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
(n.) A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:
(n.) The driving wheel of a locomotive.
(n.) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.
(n.) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
(n.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
(2) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
(3) Concurrent with this change in the level of enforcement of RBT was an extensive publicity campaign, which warned drinking drivers of their increased risk of detection by RBT units.
(4) Altogether, 29% of the drivers had evidence of alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, prescription or nonprescription stimulants, or some combination of these, in either blood or urine.
(5) The most common seenario was a vehicle-vehicle collision in which seat belts were not used and the decedent or the decedent's driver was at fault.
(6) No one was seriously hurt but the road was closed north and south at 2.15am, and police have asked drivers to find alternatives.
(7) Ridley and Boyega are part of a swathe of actors – also including Girls' Adam Driver and Ingmar Bergman regular Max von Sydow – who were confirmed by studio Disney in May.
(8) For ambulance drivers, who earn significantly below the average UK wage, the figure is more than £1,800, the analysis found using the retail prices index (RPI) measure of inflation, which hit 2.5% in December .
(9) The extra enforcement produced increases in the use of seat belts by drivers during the four months of the heightened enforcement.
(10) Unite, which will have to give seven days' notice before calling a strike after winning approval for industrial action in a ballot of the tanker drivers, is expected to finalise a framework that should allow discussions to begin on Monday.
(11) In fact, Amazon Logistics has no drivers and contracts out deliveries to many small- and medium-sized couriers across the country.
(12) Scoble shook his head, suggesting that by showing his Glass to "more than 600 people: bus drivers, school teachers..." he (and thus Google) is getting feedback from a wider demographic group.
(13) Drivers with little education and low income, younger drivers, and drivers who drove after heavy drinking or marijuana use, or both, were least likely to wear seatbelts.
(14) Prosecutors in San Francisco and Los Angeles alleged that it was false for Uber to say it was the leader in screening drivers when its background checks were inferior to the process taxi drivers undergo, since Uber does not include fingerprint checks.
(15) Ministers can glean vital gossip about cabinet reshuffles if they keep on the right side of their drivers, who form the most high-class grapevine in Britain as they wait in the Speaker's courtyard at Westminster while their charges vote in the Commons.
(16) It was founded in 1984 by Hussain, a former Chicago cab driver, and won broad support among the "mohajirs" - Muslims who fled India after partition in 1947.
(17) There were 119 quarry drilling and crusher workers (outdoor, physically active), 77 quarry truck and loader drivers (outdoor, physically inactive), 92 postal deliverymen (outdoor, physically active), 75 postal clerks (indoor, physically inactive), and 43 hospital maintenance workers (indoor, physically active).
(18) The elderly driver problem will increase gradually as their share of the population increases but will remain relatively small.
(19) Memo to bosses: expect zero loyalty from your zero-hours workers | Barbara Ellen Read more Field asked them to detail the costs couriers are expected to meet themselves, such as uniform and fuel, as well as data on their average hourly rate and information about what efforts the companies go to to ensure owner-drivers are earning the “ national living wage ”.
(20) The reassociation kinetics have been measured for radioactive Escherichia coli DNAs (tracers) of various average single-strand lengths reassociated alone and in the presence of excess unlabeled DNA (driver) of two different average lengths.
Leader
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.
(n.) One who goes first.
(n.) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.
(n.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins.
(n.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
(n.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery.
(n.) A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses.
(n.) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.
(n.) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. ; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached.
(n.) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
(n.) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.
(n.) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
(n.) a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
Example Sentences:
(1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
(2) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(3) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
(4) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
(5) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
(6) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(7) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
(8) We have examined the in vitro membrane assembly characteristics of a variety of leader peptidase mutants and found that domains required for insertion in vivo are also necessary for insertion in vitro.
(9) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(10) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
(11) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(12) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(13) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
(14) He is a leader and helps manage the defence, while Pablo Armero can be a bit of a loose cannon but he is certainly a talented player.
(15) Gove said in the interview that he did not want to be Tory leader, claiming that he lacked the "extra spark of charisma and star quality" possessed by others.
(16) But to treat a mistake as an automatic disqualification for advancement – even as heinous a mistake as presiding over a botched operation that resulted in the killing of an innocent man – could be depriving organisations, and the country, of leaders who have been tested and will not make the same mistake again.
(17) "It's a very open question as to whether this will come," said a diplomat in Brussels, adding that Cameron could find himself in the lonely position of being the sole national leader urging a renegotiation.
(18) The nucleoprotein gene is located proximal to the 3' end of the genome and is preceeded by a putative leader sequence.
(19) The PUP leader told the ABC his announcement would have international significance.
(20) The prime minister insisted, however, that he and other world leaders were not being stubborn over demands that the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, step down at the end of the peace process.