Word Meanings - PROPULSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To repel; to drive off or away. Cotgrave.

Related words: (words related to PROPULSE)

• REPELLENCE; REPELLENCY
  The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• DRIVE
  To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by
• REPELLENT
  Driving back; able or tending to repel.
• DRIVER
  A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: The driving wheel of a locomotive.
• REPEL
  1. To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant. Hippomedon repelled the hostile tide. Pope. They repelled each other strongly, and yet attracted each other strongly. Macaulay. 2.
• DRIVEWAY
  A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
• REPELLER
  One who, or that which, repels.
• DRIVEBOLT
  A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
• DRIVEN
  of Drive. Also adj. Driven well, a well made by driving a tube into the earth to an aqueous stratum; -- called also drive well.
• DRIVEPIPE
  A pipe for forcing into the earth.
• SELF-REPELLING
  Made up of parts, as molecules or atoms, which mutually repel each other; as, gases are self-repelling.
• FORDRIVE
  To drive about; to drive here and there. Rom. of R.
• FULL-DRIVE
  With full speed.
• HOME-DRIVEN
  Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.
• CONTINENTAL DRIVE
  A transmission arrangement in which the longitudinal crank shaft drives the rear wheels through a clutch, change-speed gear, countershaft, and two parallel side chains, in order.
• SCREW-DRIVER
  A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
• MOTOR-DRIVEN
  Driven or actuated by a motor, esp. by an individual electric motor. An electric motor forms an integral part of many machine tools in numerous modern machine shops.
• INTERREPELLENT
  Mutually repellent. De Quincey.
• OVERDRIVE
  To drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.
• WEATHER-DRIVEN
  Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather. Carew.