Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An arrangement for driving a machine, or a small group of machines, by an electric motor.
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Examples
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And her warm and painterly seem to catch gestures in midair, as motor-drive camera does.
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"Definitely a motor-drive picture," the photographer muttered.
Boing Boing: November 27, 2005 - December 3, 2005 Archives 2005
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* Smartway Industrial Ltd, with motor-drive cameras;
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* Samartway Industrial Ltd, with motor-drive cameras;
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I caught them one day, took a couple of quick shots of them with the motor-drive.
Hide And Seek Rankin, Ian 1990
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Clearly, a loom which contains all of these features would only require a motor-drive in order to be converted into a power-loom.
Chapter 6 1983
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Supposedly an electric motor-drive should achieve the same speed on a hill as on the level.
Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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His second shot destroyed the motor-drive to the bridge's double doors, sealing them shut.
Oberheim (Voices) Christopher Leadem
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A motor-drive, a form of felicity detested by Margaret, awaited her.
Howards End 1924
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There are no more brilliant pages, of their kind, in modern literature than the pages describing Mr. Britling's motor-drive on the night of the declaration of war.
Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918
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