disk drive
81drive letter — A designation used to specify a PC disk drive. For example, the first floppy disk drive is usually referred to as drive A, and the first hard disk drive is usually referred to as drive C …
82drive — 1 /draIv/ verb past tense drove, past participle driven / drIvFn/ 1 OPERATE A VEHICLE (I, T) to sit in a car, bus etc and make it travel from one place to another: Do you drive? | She drove the pick up and got our supplies. 2 TRAVEL SOMEWHERE (I …
83drive — [[t]dra͟ɪv[/t]] ♦ drives, driving, drove, driven 1) VERB When you drive somewhere, you operate a car or other vehicle and control its movement and direction. [V prep/adv] I drove into town and went to a restaurant for dinner... [V prep/adv] He… …
84disk controller — The electronic circuitry that controls and manages the operation of floppy disks and hard disks. A single disk controller may manage more than one hard disk. Many disk controllers also manage floppy disks and compatible tape drives. In the… …
85drive — v. & n. v. (past drove; past part. driven) 1 tr. (usu. foll. by away, back, in, out, to, etc.) urge in some direction, esp. forcibly (drove back the wolves). 2 tr. a (usu. foll. by to + infin., or to + verbal noun) compel or constrain forcibly… …
86disk — disc, disk The normal spelling in BrE changed from disk at the time of the original OED (1896) to disc by the time of OED2 (1989); in AmE it has remained disk. In computer terminology, however, the American spelling is dominant everywhere (as in… …
87disk — [[t]dɪ̱sk[/t]] disks N COUNT: also on/to N (The spelling disc is also used, mainly in non technical contexts.) In a computer, the disk is the part where information is stored. → See also , disk drive, , hard disk The program takes up 2.5… …
88disk duplexing — A procedure that allows multiple disk drives to be installed with separate disk channels for each set of drives. Write operations are performed simultaneously because each disk drive uses a separate disk channel …
89disk pack — noun (computer science) a portable pack of magnetic disks used in a disk storage device • Syn: ↑disc pack • Topics: ↑computer science, ↑computing • Hypernyms: ↑pack * * * …
90drive — 1. verb /draɪv,ˈʤɹaɪv/ a) To herd (animals) in a particular direction. The beaters drove the brambles, causing a great rush of rabbits and other creatures. b) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal. You drive nails into wood …
