Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), n.
The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.
A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
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Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
The Murdstonian drive in business.
--M. Arnold. In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.
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A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river. [Colloq.]
Syn: See Ride.
a private road; a driveway.
a strong psychological motivation to perform some activity.
(Computers) a device for reading or writing data from or to a data storage medium, as a disk drive, a tape drive, a CD drive, etc.
an organized effort by a group to accomplish a goal within a limited period of time; as, a fund-raising drive.
a physiological function of an organism motivating it to perform specific behaviors; as, the sex drive.
(Football) the period during which one team sustains movement of the ball toward the opponent's goal without losing possession of the ball; as, a long drive downfield.
an act of driving a vehicle, especially an automobile; the journey undertaken by driving an automobile; as, to go for a drive in the country.
the mechanism which causes the moving parts of a machine to move; as, a belt drive.
the way in which the propulsive force of a vehicle is transmitted to the road; as, a car with four-wheel drive, front-wheel drive, etc.
Wiktionary
alt. (context computing English) a computer drive that reads a computer storage medium the shape of a disc n. (context computing English) a computer drive that reads a computer storage medium the shape of a disc
WordNet
n. computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it [syn: disc drive, hard drive, Winchester drive]
Usage examples of "disk drive".
No, I mean where they'd have to replace every damn computer chip, disk drive, modem, or other piece of hardware completely.
She sat down on a rock and looked out at the water, while the computer's disk drive chirred softly to itself.
It probably would have no effect on a disk drive that was a few meters away from it, but anything that was actually carried through that doorway would be wiped clean.
The little red light came on above the disk drive and the drive began to whir.
The only noise was the whirring of the disk drive and the tiny clicks of the keyboard.
The remarkable thing was that there was no disk in the disk drive and no one had touched a key yet.
Hastily he shoved another floppy into the disk drive and copied the file without taking time to read it.
Attached to the overall system control panel which controlled Alpha, Beta, and Zulu was a third-generation Power PC, and attached to it in turn was a Bernoulli removable-disk drive.
Like when you have the disk drive, and it's too small for what you want to do, but you have a whole lot of memory, so you make up a virtual drive out of memory, and it acts just like a real disk.
I wrote an automatic program that saved to an external disk drive as I worked.
Very well: the hardware is the stuff you can see -- the keyboard, monitor, disk drive, printer, cables and such.
Very well: the hardware is the stuff you can seethe keyboard, monitor, disk drive, printer, cables and such.