Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In machinery, driven by means of a flexible belt.
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Examples
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The mill should have been belt-driven from the beginning.
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For example, maybe apartment buildings could have had central steam engines and used lineshafts (like those used in factories) to deliver power to individual apartment ... washing machines, etc could have been belt-driven off of the lineshaft.
Electric Liberation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If you have a belt-driven transmission (a quad without a chain), there should a plug at the bottom of the belt cover that you can pull to drain the water out once the quad is back down on its wheels.
10 Ways To Ruin Your Quad Cassandra 2009
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The doctor's drill, likely purchased at the Going Out of Business sale of the Spanish Inquisition, was belt-driven and had a non-factory-installed feature that varied its speed at random intervals.
Mark Steinberg: My Doctor Says I'm Not Dead But I Want a Second Opinion Mark Steinberg 2011
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Q: What's the difference between a belt-driven vacuum and a Van de Graaf Generator?
mrissa: The Robot Dialer is sent by the Robot Devil. mrissa 2010
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The doctor's drill, likely purchased at the Going Out of Business sale of the Spanish Inquisition, was belt-driven and had a non-factory-installed feature that varied its speed at random intervals.
Mark Steinberg: My Doctor Says I'm Not Dead But I Want a Second Opinion Mark Steinberg 2011
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The horsepower remains at 170, though a slightly larger displacement and switch from belt-driven single cam to chain-driven double overhead cam design that helps deliver more power at lower rpm and raise the EPA-rated fuel economy by 1 mpg.
2011 Subaru Forester: Engine, fuel economy, and trim updates 2010
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Having dispensed with all that, I'm now pleased to share some other publicity-themed information, which is that Gates Carbon Drive Systems is now fielding a belt-driven singlespeed cyclocross team:
Putting it Out There: BRAs, Belts, and Cockies BikeSnobNYC 2010
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The horsepower remains at 170, though a slightly larger displacement and switch from belt-driven single cam to chain-driven double overhead cam design that helps deliver more power at lower rpm and raise the EPA-rated fuel economy by 1 mpg.
2011 Subaru Forester: Engine, fuel economy, and trim updates 2010
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When I was in the shop, people working there said that there had been a lot of interest in the Spot belt-driven bikes, but that through a combination of trepidation and freak storms that had washed away all suitors, they had not had a banner year of sales.
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