(a.) Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm.
(a.) Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft.
(n.) The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.
(n.) Tendency; drift.
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.
Heartbeat
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The latter practice has previously been ascribed to imprinting and the soothing sound of the mother's heartbeat on the infant.
(2) In Experiment 1, subjects exposed to a sound representing their heartbeat made greater self-attributions for hypothetical outcomes than did subjects exposed to the same sound identified as an extraneous noise.
(3) The results of work by several investigators indicate that crossbridge attachment serves as a positive feedback mechanism that transiently increases the Ca2+ affinity of troponin C (TnC) during each normal heartbeat.
(4) Nevertheless, the mutants survive through stage 41, which is about 20 days beyond the heartbeat stage, and they exhibit normal swimming movements, indicating that gene c does not affect skeletal muscle.
(5) Cardiac slowing that marked the respiratory segmentation of the heartbeat showed consistent relationship with the breath it preceded by 1 to 5 s. Thus, association of respiration and heartbeat must include synergistically central interrelated origins for respiration cardiac rates constituting the RHRR.
(6) And with every heartbeat the blood was pumping up in the air from my thigh.” A man pointed a rifle at his head and threatened to finish him off.
(7) Muirfield can "turn around on you in a heartbeat", Scott had warned beforehand, and so it proved once again.
(8) Other ITV Productions shows bought in by SMG and UTV for broadcast by their ITV franchises include Emmerdale, Heartbeat, I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!
(9) This paper documents this analysis, which supports the concept of a close similarity in lifespan heartbeats among mammalian species and among avian species.
(10) Former senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts and Governor Paul LePage of Maine, favorites of the blue-collar north-east, are likely to be angling for jobs in a Trump White House, but a heartbeat away from the presidency.
(11) 2.-- Carcinine had no influence upon heartbeat frequency nor on respiratory movements in rats.
(12) The former TV and radio presenter, who suffers from an irregular heartbeat, sleeps on the bottom bunk of the bed he shares with his cellmate because he is unable to tackle the ladders, the court heard.
(13) The heartbeat bill, passed seemingly out of nowhere by the Ohio senate last week , would have been the most restrictive abortion law in the country.
(14) An acceleration of heartbeat precedes the cardiac arrest observed in about five minutes.
(15) The consultant said: 'As long as there is a foetal heartbeat we can't do anything.'
(16) "We are taking a look at Heartbeat and seeing what we can do to make it less expensive and make it more modern so that the production of the show can continue," he said.
(17) The results suggest that in the early embryonic initial beating chick heart, the contractile system is activated by Ca2+ influx across the sarcolemma accompanying the action potential, and that a Na+-Ca2+ exchange mechanism participates in the relaxation phase of the heartbeat.
(18) With this monitor the evaluation of characteristic parameters of the conduction system of the heart like HV-, AH- and A'H-time, and likely, SACT can easily be performed for every heartbeat on a digital oscilloscope with low resolution or a two-channel chart recorder.
(19) England are to have the slogan "The dream of one team, the heartbeat of millions!!"
(20) Heartbeat, which originally starred Nick Berry as a London policeman transferred to a north Yorkshire village, was for years a mainstay of ITV's Sunday night schedule, attracting audiences of 15 million viewers in its 1990s heyday.