(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.
Loudspeaker
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) With Soviet-era music blaring from loudspeakers and the Russian tricolour everywhere, the overwhelming feeling in Sevastopol was that the city was finally "going home" after a 23-year stay in Ukraine .
(2) One woman approached and shouted angrily at officials to turn off the loudspeakers.
(3) The noise bursts were from any one of 20 loudspeakers, 18 degrees apart, visible to the listeners, and arranged in the horizontal and vertical planes.
(4) All three measurements were affected by changes in the loudspeaker azimuth and reference microphone location.
(5) His voice was not heard over the loudspeakers, though many others' were.
(6) There was a security cordon around the cemetery, where a high-level government delegation including the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, stood on a stage draped in red and black and addressed a small crowd through loudspeakers.
(7) Such sovereignty declarations are usually made by hailing Japanese boats by radio and loudspeaker, as well as flashing shipboard signs.
(8) In the first experiment, subjects reported whether or not they heard an echo coming from the vicinity of the lag loudspeaker during a test click pair.
(9) Vibrations of the bed due to movements of the patient were converted to electrical oscillations by movement of a loudspeaker coil in reversed mode as transducer.
(10) The loudspeakers, 15 deg apart, were arranged in a semicircle (0-270-180 deg, azimuth).
(11) With this arrangement of loudspeakers and response keys, squirrel monkeys quickly learn to respond on the key near the source of the sound stimulus, and this pattern is the same whether or not responses near the sound source are differentially reinforcedmthis result may depend on a pre-experimental tendency in squirrel monkeys to orient head and eyes toward a sound, which would lead the animal to look at the response key in front of the loudspeaker producing the sound.
(12) The auditory receptive fields of neurons in the optic tectum were measured with free-field sounds presented from a movable loudspeaker.
(13) Then a best frequency (BF) stimulus was delivered as the loudspeaker was moved across the frontal auditory space to determine the response center of the neuron.
(14) His private palace, seven miles outside town in Kawele, brimmed with paintings, sculptures, stained glass, ersatz Louis XIV furniture, marble from Carrara in Italy and two swimming pools surrounded by loudspeakers playing his beloved Gregorian chants or classical music.
(15) Signal generation is accomplished by using a phased-array loudspeaker arrangement designed to produce transient-free pulsed acoustic sinusoids.
(16) The PE was produced by playing the rattle sound through two loudspeakers with the output of one delayed by 5 ms, relative to the other; adults perceive only one sound at the leading loudspeaker.
(17) The method consists of stimulating the tumor mass with short rectangular pulses of monopolar, constant voltage and then presenting the electrical responses from the facial muscles through a loudspeaker.
(18) Loudspeakers, placed 7.5 degrees apart, covered an arc extending from 15 degrees to 165 degrees to the left of midline.
(19) Loudspeakers pumped out Patti Smith’s People Have the Power to 8,000 people packed into the basketball stadium.
(20) Many wept, wiping tears off their faces as the melancholic tunes of the hymns reached them through loudspeakers.