hard drive

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [hahrd drahyv]
- /hɑrd draɪv/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [hahrd drahyv]
- /hɑrd draɪv/

Definitions of hard drive words

abbreviation Technical meaning of HARD DRIVE hard disk drive 3
noun hard drive a disk drive containing a hard disk. 1
noun hard drive disk-reading hardware 1
noun Definition of hard drive in Technology (storage) (HDD) A disk drive used to read and write hard disks. 1
countable noun hard drive A computer's hard drive is its hard disk, or the part that contains the hard disk. 0
noun hard drive (on a computer) the mechanism that handles the reading, writing, and storage of data on the hard disk 0

See all 8 definitions of hard drive

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Origin of hard drive

First appearance:

before 1980

One of the 1% newest English words

First recorded in 1980-85

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Parts of speech for Hard drive

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Hard drive

hard drive popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 40% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data about 50% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

hard drive usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for hard drive

noun hard drive

tape drive — a program-controlled device that reads data from or writes data on a magnetic tape which moves past a read-write head.
floppy disk — Computers. a thin plastic disk coated with magnetic material, on which computer data and programs can be stored for later retrieval.
hard disk — magnetic disk (def 1).
diskette — floppy disk.
magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.

All 16 Synonyms of hard drive