drive shaft

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noun Machinery.

a shaft for imparting torque from a power source or prime mover to machinery.

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Origin of drive shaft

First recorded in 1890–95

Words nearby drive shaft

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How to use drive shaft in a sentence

The two-speed transmission turns a drive shaft, which goes back to a rear axle to power the wheels.
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An actuator wheel on the motor can automatically connect to or disconnect from the drive shaft to make the switch and increase overall driving efficiency.
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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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We prefer to wave away the warning signs; like The Interview, Mulholland Drive was comfortably downplayed as over-the-top satire.
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Then with your victorious legions you can march south and help drive the Yankee invaders from the land.
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Wordsworth has illustrated how an unwise and importunate demand for a reason from a child may drive him into invention.
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Give not up thy heart to sadness, but drive it from thee: and remember the latter end.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
If they will come to our villages and drive us out a hundred at a time, what would they do to one man alone?
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He walked up the sweep of sandy drive to the hotel and went through the big glass doors.
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British Dictionary definitions for drive shaft

drive shaft

noun

another name for propeller shaft

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