And a dialect survey led by Bert Vaux, formerly of Harvard, used online surveys to map different names for sneakers (or "gym shoes" in Illinois, where this writer comes from), varying pronunciations of "aunt" or "crayon," and answers to questions like "What do you call a drive-through liquor store?" (Most popular answer: "I have never heard of such a thing").
On teacher evaluations over the years: "Most of us basically had what I would call a drive-by evaluation, you know, 20 minutes in a classroom, boom, that's it.
From the technical side, the car's chief characteristic is abundant power, delivered by exceptionally high currents put through a device called a drive inverter.
The woman had what Giacino calls a "drive disorder," in which a patient is unable to speak, move, or, possibly, think unless physically stimulated — by touch.
The woman had what Giacino calls a "drive disorder," in which a patient is unable to speak, move, or, possibly, think unless physically stimulated by touch.
To make it work on a large scale, scientists would have to connect this gene to what James calls "a drive system" — some trait that makes the malaria-immune mosquitoes more likely to reproduce than their normal cousins.
This is called a "drive-by download".
A group of donkeys is called a drove.
A 74-year-old woman and a 22-year-old man were wounded Wednesday afternoon in what Gary, Ind., police are calling a drive-by shooting.
To keep up with a growing interest in culinary travel, managers at the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay last year designed what they call a "signature drive".
It's still not what you'd call a focused drive.
