Get to know Drives better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Drives meaning
plural of drive
Using Drives
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of drive
- In the example corpus, drives often appears in combinations such as: drives and, hard drives, drives the.
Context around Drives
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 12 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Drives
- In this selection, "drives" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hard, rom, flash, self, lebenstriebe and todestriebe stand out and add context to how "drives" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include accommodating floppy drives cd rom, all the drives and folders, hard drives, disk drives and drives past. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "drives" sits close to words such as iraq, racial and afghanistan, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with drives
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Surfing drives beach fashions and locally, Spyder drives surfing. (9 words)
Meanwhile, sifts through all the drives and folders on your PC, excluding network drives. (14 words)
It usually checks your system memory, startup programs, system backup, email databases, hard drives, and any removable storage drives. (19 words)
The store supports a variety of causes and institutions through food drives, holiday gift drives, bone marrow donor match drives, pet adoption days, mentoring and support for local Girl Scout troops, school book fairs and the program Vroman’s Gives Back. (41 words)
Totaro says that the full copy of the data is only available on the hard drives presented in court, but that he will find the drives mistakenly mentioned in the report and present them the next time he is in Malta. (41 words)
They had 88 drives in total in the first eight games of the season, or 11 drives per game, meaning that they only averaged 1.1 points per drive in the first half of the season. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
From the initial opposition between sexual drives and ego-drives (self-preservation) to the final one between the life drives (Lebenstriebe) and the death drives (Todestriebe).
The store supports a variety of causes and institutions through food drives, holiday gift drives, bone marrow donor match drives, pet adoption days, mentoring and support for local Girl Scout troops, school book fairs and the program Vroman’s Gives Back.
Organizations that use a large quantity of drives will often use new hard drives in noncritical systems for a period of time before committing them to mission-critical use to help weed out defective drives.
Drives with non-removable eight-inch platters appeared, and then drives that used a convert form factor (a mounting width equivalent to that used by contemporary floppy disk drives ).
LG CD-ROM drives Certain models of LG CD-ROM drives with specific firmware used an abnormal command for "update firmware": the "clear buffer" command usually used on CD-RW drives.
They all included dual drive bays capable of accommodating floppy drives, CD-ROM/ DVD -ROM drives, hard drives, or even extra batteries.
Frequently, USB storage devices, such as flash drives or external hard drives, are used to save files and other documents.
Or that would be possible if the internal drives or the LAN port could sustain that level of performance, which conventional hard drives can’t.
They had 88 drives in total in the first eight games of the season, or 11 drives per game, meaning that they only averaged 1.1 points per drive in the first half of the season.
Variable Frequency Drives (VFD) and Variable Speed Drives (VSD) are instruments that play an important role in ventilation and safety within the tunnel.
It usually checks your system memory, startup programs, system backup, email databases, hard drives, and any removable storage drives.
Meanwhile, sifts through all the drives and folders on your PC, excluding network drives.
Similarly, thumb drives, flash drives and floppy disks are also being handled in ways that don't comport with bureau policies.
Surfing drives beach fashions and locally, Spyder drives surfing.
Hogs Back Road is closed to vehicles between Prince of Wales and Riverside drives until August and between Colonel By and Riverside drives until December for bridge repairs.
So, to the extent that climate change drives animals and humans further together, it drives the possibility of further epidemics.
Totaro says that the full copy of the data is only available on the hard drives presented in court, but that he will find the drives mistakenly mentioned in the report and present them the next time he is in Malta.
But West Virginia has a chance if it turns touchdown drives into field goal drives, particularly with the Mountaineers’ penchant for blocking kicks.
That’s significant as well, as the number of three and out drives increased substantially from 2017 to 2018, and the amount of consecutive three and out drives more than doubled.
Despite the rise of solid-state drives, magnetic storage devices such as conventional hard drives and magnetic tapes are still very common.
Phrases with drives
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with drives
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- drives and 16×
- hard drives 16×
- drives the 16×
- disk drives 14×
- the drives 11×
- drives to 11×
- drives in 9×
- drives are 9×
- drives past 9×
- that drives 8×