drive-
the verb-stem used in Comb.: drive-belt, a belt that transmits torque to a mechanism, etc.; drive-boat (U.S.), a light rowing-boat used in the menhaden fishery in driving the fish into the net; drive-bolt = drift-bolt (see drift n. 19 c); drive-line, the propeller shaft and universal joints by which drive is transmitted from the gearbox of a motor vehicle to the differential and axle; drive-off, (a) adj. (of a ship) from which a motor vehicle can be driven; (b) n. the act of setting off in a motor vehicle; drive-on a., (of a ship) on to which a motor vehicle can be driven; also drive-on/drive-off; drive-pipe, a pipe conveying water for driving machinery; drive-screw, a kind of screw driven by a hammer; drive-shaft, a shaft for communicating motion so as to drive machinery; spec. each of the two half-shafts in a motor vehicle that connect the differential to each driven wheel; also (U.S.), a propeller shaft; drive-train = drive-line above; also, the corresponding chain and sprockets of a motor cycle; drive-wheel = driving-wheel; drive-yourself a. (orig. U.S.), designating a motor vehicle let out on hire and driven by the hirer; also ellipt. as n. See also driveway.
| 1959 Which? Aug. 87/2 The drive belts [on the spin drier of a washing machine]..slipped, affecting the speed with which the drums rotated. 1967 Lebende Sprachen XII. 136/2 Drive-belt, the belt on a tape recorder for turning the reels. |
| 1678 Phillips (ed. 4), Drivebolt, in Navigation is a long piece used for the driving out of Tree-Nail, or the like. 1727–51 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Bolt, Drive-bolts, used to drive out others. |
| 1949 Frazee & Bedell Automotive Fundamentals vii. 418 Several types of parking brake are in common use, as follows: (1) Mechanical application of service brake... (2) Drive line external contracting... (3) Drive line disk brake. 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. b4/7 The 1970 models carried an extended five-year, 50,000 mile warranty on the engine, transmission and certain drive-line components. 1985 Commercial Motor 30 Mar. 16/2 Cab suspension and chassis suspension have been completely revised on the new [Turbostar] models, as has the driveline. |
| 1960 Times 20 Jan. 9/6 Specially built drive-on/drive-off Transport Ferry ships carry loaded lorries. 1964 R. Petrie Murder by Precedent vii. 103 They were to draw in the main canteen for order of drive-off. |
| 1963 ‘W. Haggard’ High Wire iii. 32 Those drive-on car ferries. |
| 1883 Century Mag. XXVI. 329 A drive⁓pipe is forced down through the earth to the rock. |
| 1889 Daily News 14 Nov. 2/8 Samples of new ‘drive’ screws (which can be forced into wood by the blows of a hammer) were also shown. |
| 1895 Specif. Patent No. 7271. 1 The drive shaft for operating the sustaining screws. [1907 R. B. Whitman Motor-Car Princ. ix. 141 The axle end of the driving shaft follows the axle as that follows the inequalities of the road.] 1919 Fraser & Jones Motor Vehicles xxiv. 260 The drive shaft turns at several times the speed of the axles. 1929 Newton & Steeds Motor Vehicle xxii. 267 In place of that cross shaft there are now two ‘differential’ or ‘drive’ shafts..which are connected at their outer ends to the road wheels. 1967 Jane's Surface Skimmer Syst. 1967–8 49/2 A further shaft runs forward from the differential to a bevel gearbox from which a drive-shaft runs vertically upward to the 12-blade lift-fan. 1980 Know about your Car (A.A.) 56/3 The very short drive shafts necessary on front-wheel-drive and rear-engined cars. |
| 1970 Wall St. Jrnl. 10 Nov. 1/4 A simple, sturdy Volkswagen engine, drive train and chassis. 1985 Dirt Bike Mar. 31/3 It would also remarkably free up existing engine and drive train design, as the countershaft could be placed just about anywhere within reason. |
| 1887 C. B. George 40 Yrs. on Rail ii. 28 The drive-wheels will slip. 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 2 Apr. 2/1 (Advt.), The First ‘Drive Yourself’ Auto Livery in Canada and it's a great success. Rent a Dodge, Overland, Chevrolet or Ford and try it yourself. 1929 D. Hammett Red Harvest xviii. 179, I found Dick Foley in a hired drive-yourself Buick. 1959 G. M. Wilson Shadows on Landing viii. 88 The drive-yourself car with David at the wheel. 1962 W. H. Murray Maelstrom viii. 109 He would hire a ‘drive-yourself’ at Tarbert. |
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drive time n. and
adj. (
orig. U.S.)
(a) adj. (
attrib.) of, designating, or relating to either of two periods in the day, corresponding to the morning and afternoon rush hours, regarded as peak radio broadcasting times due to a large potential audience of commuters;
(b) n. either of these two periods in the day,
esp. as peak radio broadcasting times.
| 1966 Arlington Heights (Illinois) Herald 3 Mar. 38/4 At WLNA he handled the late afternoon *drive time air slot. 1975 N.Y. Times 28 Nov. 63/3 The American Broadcasting Company, which released these findings, also noted that previous recent studies showed a 51 percent increase in FM morning drive time listening from 1973 to 1975 and a 42 percent increase in afternoon drive time. 1984 T. Douglas Compl. Guide to Advertising i. iii. 96 The types of people who listen change at various points of the day, and advertisers can take advantage of this, for example by buying spots in ‘drive time’ in the morning and evening if they want to reach drivers and businessmen. 1998 Zest Sept. 38/2 He entertains the nation on the drive-time slot. |