motor drive

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noun

a mechanical system, including an electric motor, used to operate a machine or machines.

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Origin of motor drive

First recorded in 1905–10

OTHER WORDS FROM motor drive

mo·tor-driv·en

[moh-ter-driv-uhn], /ˈmoʊ tərˌdrɪv ən/, adjective

Words nearby motor drive

motor caravan, motorcoach, motor cortex, motorcycle, motor development, motor drive, motordrome, motored, motor generator, motor home, motoric

How to use motor drive in a sentence

One of these can be used for the front or rear axle, while the other is a dual motor drive unit for rear axles.
This is GM’s new series of Ultium Drive electric motors|Jonathan M. Gitlin|September 17, 2020|Ars Technica
He used to drive her to school once he came home from the Marines.
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile|Robert Ward|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The hope was that greater transparency about performance would drive results.
The ‘No Child’ Rewrite Threatens Your Kids’ Future|Jonah Edelman|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
You would only see it for a second, but it would drive you forward.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST

The traveling show arrived in Shreveport at 7:30 in the morning after an all-night drive.
How Martin Luther King Jr. Influenced Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’|Peter Guralnick|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We prefer to wave away the warning signs; like The Interview, Mulholland Drive was comfortably downplayed as over-the-top satire.
Pyongyang Shuffle: Hollywood In Dead Panic Over Sony Hack|James Poulos|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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
To think,” said the younger Englishwoman to her sister, “of this wee mite travelling about in an open motor!
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
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

British Dictionary definitions for motor drive

motor drive

noun

photog a battery-operated motorized system to give fast film advance between exposuresCompare autowinder

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