Bass drum
() The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a. |
Bed screw
() A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching. |
Bed screw
() A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces. |
Breech screw
() A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore. |
Claude Lorraine glass
() A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape. |
Driven
(p. p.) of Drive |
Drive
(v. t.) To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one |
Drive
(v. t.) To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them |
Drive
(v. t.) To urge, impel, or hurry forward |
Drive
(v. t.) To carry or |
Drive
(v. t.) To clear, by forcing away what is contained. |
Drive
(v. t.) To dig Horizontally |
Drive
(v. t.) To pass away |
Drive
(v. i.) To rush and press with violence |
Drive
(v. i.) To be forced along |
Drive
(v. i.) To go by carriage |
Drive
(v. i.) To press forward |
Drive
(v. i.) To distrain for rent. |
Drive
(p. p.) Driven. |
Drive
(n.) The act of driving |
Drive
(n.) A place suitable or agreeable for driving |
Drive
(n.) Violent or rapid motion |
Drive
(n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift. |
Drive
(n.) A collection of objects that are driven |
Driven
(p. p.) of Drive. Also adj. |
Drum
(n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick |
Drum
(n.) Anything resembling a drum in form |
Drum
(n.) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc. |
Drum
(n.) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed. |
Drum
(n.) The tympanum of the ear |
Drum
(n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed |
Drum
(n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery |
Drum
(n.) See Drumfish. |
Drum
(n.) A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house |
Drum
(n.) A tea party |
Drum
(v. i.) To beat a drum with sticks |
Drum
(v. i.) To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks |
Drum
(v. i.) To throb, as the heart. |
Drum
(v. i.) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc, |
Drum
(v. t.) To execute on a drum, as a tune. |
Drum
(v. t.) (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum |
Drum
(v. t.) (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum |
Drum major
() . |
Drum major
() The chief or first drummer of a regiment |
Drum major
() The marching leader of a military band. |
Drum major
() A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4. |
Egg-glass
(n.) A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs |
Elevator
(n.) One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything |
Elevator
(n.) A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. |
Elevator
(n.) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels |
drive thrust
driving force | the act of applying force to propel something, after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off |
lift
raise
heave | the act of raising something, he responded with a lift of his eyebrow, fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up |
liner
line drive | (baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter, the batter hit a liner to the shortstop |
line-drive single
line single | a single resulting from a line drive |
line-drive double
line double | a double resulting from a line drive |
line-drive triple
line triple | a triple resulting from a line drive |
| drive-by killing | homicide committed by shooting from a moving automobile |
| drive-by shooting | shooting someone from a car as it is driven past the victim |
| face lift facelift face lifting | a renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) but usually does not involve major changes, give your home a facelift, more than a facelift, the new model marks a fundamental change of direction |
drive
ride | a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile), he took the family for a drive in his new car |
| lift | a ride in a car, he gave me a lift home |
airlift
lift | transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) |
| cattle drive | driving a bovine herd (as cows or bulls or steers) |
| drive | the act of driving a herd of animals overland |
| drive | (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash) |
| forehand drive | (sports) hard straight return made on the forehand side (as in tennis or badminton or squash) |
| backhand drive | a hard straight return made on the backhand side |
| drive driving | hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver, he sliced his drive out of bounds |
face lift
facelift
lift face lifting
cosmetic surgery
rhytidectomy
rhytidoplasty
nip and tuck | plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face, an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised, some actresses have more than one face lift |
campaign cause crusade
drive movement effort | a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end, he supported populist campaigns, they worked in the cause of world peace, the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant, the movement to end slavery, contributed to the war effort |
fundaising campaign
fundaising drive
fundaising effort | a campaign to raise money for some cause |
c fuck
fucking
screw
screwing
ass
nooky
nookie
piece of ass
piece of tail
roll in the hay
shag shtup ff | slang for sexual intercourse |
| lift | the act of giving temporary assistance |
glass lizard
glass snake
joint snake | snakelike lizard of Europe and Asia and North America with vestigial hind limbs and the ability to regenerate its long fragile tail |
| glass sponge | a siliceous sponge (with glassy spicules) of the class Hyalospongiae |
drum
drumfish | small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise |
striped drum
Equetus pulcher | a kind of drumfish |
red drum
channel bass
redfish Sciaenops ocellatus | large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico |
alcohol thermometer
alcohol-in-glass thermometer | thermometer consisting of a glass capillary tube marked with degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit and containing alcohol which rises or falls as it expands or contracts with changes in temperature |
| Allen screw | a screw with a hexagonal hole in the head |
auger
gimlet
screw auger
wimble | hand tool for boring holes |
automatic transmission
automatic drive | a transmission that automatically changes the gears according to the speed of the car |
bass drum
gran casa | a large drum with two heads, makes a sound of indefinite but very low pitch |
| beer glass | a relatively large glass for serving beer |
bell jar
bell glass | a bell-shaped glass cover used to protect and display delicate objects or to cover scientific apparatus or to contain gases |
bongo
bongo drum | a small drum, played with the hands |
brake cylinder
hydraulic brake cylinder
master cylinder | a cylinder that contains brake fluid that is compressed by a piston |
brake drum
drum | a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes |
| cap screw | a threaded screw for machine parts, screws into a tapped hole |
| car elevator car | where passengers ride up and down, the car was on the top floor |
| CD drive | a drive that reads a compact disc and that is connected to an audio system |
| CD-ROM drive | a drive that is connected to a computer and on which a CD-ROM can be `played' |
chairlift
chair lift | a ski lift on which riders (skiers or sightseers) are seated and carried up or down a mountainside, seats are hung from an endless overhead cable |
| cheval glass | a full length mirror mounted in a frame in which it can be tilted |
clinical thermometer
mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer | a mercury thermometer designed to measure the temperature of the human body, graduated to cover a range a few degrees on either side of the normal body temperature |
corkscrew
bottle screw | a bottle opener that pulls corks |
cover glass
cover slip | a small and very thin piece of glass used to cover the specimen on a microscope slide |
crystal
watch crystal
watch glass | a protective cover that protects the face of a watch |
| cut glass | glass decorated by cutting or grinding facets |
diesel-hydraulic locomotive
diesel-hydraulic | a locomotive driven by a hydraulic transmission system powered by a diesel engine |