belt drive

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noun

engineering a transmission system using a flexible belt to transfer power

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Words nearby belt drive

belt-and-braces, Beltane, belt bag, beltcourse, belt down, belt drive, belted, belted-bias tire, belted kingfisher, belted sandfish, belted tire

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Example sentences from the Web for belt drive

He used to drive her to school once he came home from the Marines.
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The hope was that greater transparency about performance would drive results.
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You would only see it for a second, but it would drive you forward.
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The traveling show arrived in Shreveport at 7:30 in the morning after an all-night drive.
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They want to change bad behaviors—tobacco, alcohol, using a seat belt, anything.
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Then with your victorious legions you can march south and help drive the Yankee invaders from the land.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
Wordsworth has illustrated how an unwise and importunate demand for a reason from a child may drive him into invention.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Give not up thy heart to sadness, but drive it from thee: and remember the latter end.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
His boyish suspenders had been put away in favor of a belt, which was tight-drawn about his slim waist.
The Bondboy|George W. (George Washington) Ogden
If they will come to our villages and drive us out a hundred at a time, what would they do to one man alone?
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson

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