Meanings of power-driven in English

Specialization and division of labor, plus power-driven machines increase productivity, income, surplus.

Somewhere in a neighboring office a power-driven machine vibrated dully.

There were power-driven rolls for the coinage from 1657.

She seemed as power-driven as Tatiana at times.

Aeroplane-A power-driven aerofoil with stabilizing and controlling surfaces.

Man is the tool-using animal, and the machine, that is, the power-driven tool, is his peculiar achievement.

And there was not a power-driven ground vehicle anywhere in sight, nor anything man made in the air.

In spite of Lilienthal's pioneer work years before, this was the first power-driven German plane which actually flew.

Men tend to be power-driven.

Then you should have a good power-driven corn sheller and a small mill for grinding corn meal and buckwheat flour.

But not until the coming of the power-driven sewing machine could there be any factory production of clothes on a large scale.

It is past question that the 'Avion' was capable of power-driven flight; whether it achieved it or no remains an unsettled problem.

President McKinley was keenly interested in Langley's design to build a power-driven flying machine which would have innumerable advantages over the balloon.

After reaching the settling basin, the compound falls by gravity into a power-driven rotary mixing tub which is directly beneath the settling basin.

Researchers at Brigham Young University found that for female players, the dig is king, more consistently leading to scoring than by concentrating on power-driven serves.

NBA Commissioner David Stern now undeniably reigns as the power-driven, ultra-manipulative, divide and conquer "Cuban dictator" Charles Oakley once defiantly compared him to.