Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An automotive drive system in which mechanical power is transmitted from the drive shaft to all four wheels.
Wiktionary
- n. A four-wheeled vehicle with a drivetrain that allows all four wheels to receive torque from the engine simultaneously.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a transmission that provides power directly to all four wheels of a motor vehicle
- n. a motor vehicle with a four-wheel drive transmission system
Examples
“Only a trail bike or a vehicle with four-wheel drive could negotiate the sandy furrows of the Old Brrr Road, and there was not enough traffic to keep the weeds from growing in the ruts.”
“Stantori and Lester Treadwell, a lean, wiry man in his fifties who was in charge of clearing the deadfall, had taken a four-wheel drive truck up the logging road toward spike camp as soon as it had gotten light.”
“I paid the phone call's ransom into Donald's stringy outstretched palm and returned to my laden, ancient and battered four-wheel drive outside.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘four-wheel drive’.
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Mandles, Candles for Men
candles with a "manly" scent
a1 steak sauce, baseball glove, grillin' out, campfire, pigskin, bowling alley, musty locker room, chuck norris sweat, urinal deodorizer, bait shop, wet dog, hardware store and 210 more...
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ENVI - Collocations DEFG
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
dactylis glomerata, daily allowance, daily contact zone, daily cycle of tides, daily intake level, daily mortality rate, daily office and ..., daily peak, daily range in va..., daily runoff regu..., daily SO2 levels, dairy cattle and 5213 more...
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In Cars
I've never learned how to drive or care for a car, but I recently inherited one that probably needs some work. Here's a list of vocabulary words I'll need to learn.
wheel, axle, steering wheel, seat, engine, windshield wiper, stick shift, limited slip diff..., catalytic converter, exhaust, trunk, window and 55 more...
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One for the money, two for the show...
Words with numbers...
eight ball, oner, two bits, threefold, four-in-hand knot, four-leaf-clover, five-spot, six-pack, six-shooter, two-by-four, two-door, three-ring circus and 45 more...
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Magic or Madness
Words from the glossaries in the back of the novels.
ambo, arse, bickie, biscuit, bloke, boong, bottlebrush, bronze medallion, bugger, bunyip, cardie, chips and 79 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for four-wheel drive.
lampbane SUV. Oct 4, 2008