Used in a Sentence

drake

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for drake.

Editorial note

According to my local Home Depot, a utility-grade toilet is $79, and the cheapest Toto Drake is $189.

Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A male duck.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of drake gathered in one view.

noun

A male duck.

noun

beaked galley, or Viking warship

noun

a fiery meteor (variously known as fiery serpents and dragons in many cultures)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for drake.

noun

A male duck.

noun

beaked galley, or Viking warship

noun

a fiery meteor (variously known as fiery serpents and dragons in many cultures)

noun

a mayfly used as fishing bait

Example sentences

1

According to my local Home Depot, a utility-grade toilet is $79, and the cheapest Toto Drake is $189.

2

Hell, Drake warned back in 2005, and Congress rushed back into session to make it legal.

3

Of course it's still only a sample size of one - Mayr's argument has little to do with the Drake equation.

4

A Toto Drake isn't that much more than even a cheap builder-grade unit.

5

I think this is the first keynote where I got that vibe, especially when they got Drake on stage.

6

It seems like if Drake hadn't gotten sympathetic press coverage and public support, the DoJ would have tried to railroad him on espionage charges.

7

Surely their PR 'feelers' are aware of this and should've warned them that letting Drake ramble on stage would not be a great idea...

8

Try not to follow people you know personally and be ruthless in unfollowing people because it only takes one Drake fan to pollute your Trending page.

9

Frank Drake created his famous equation [1] to try to quantify the probability of detecting ETI, but you do need to make guesses at some of the inputs.

10

If you don't like Drake because of who listens/talks about it rather than because of his music, then you're letting everybody else dictate part of what you're listening to.

11

> Overall average Speedup (X) of Yinyang over Standard (9.36), Elkan (6.12), Drake (3.08) There wasn't a single mention on GPU use.

12

I love this bit about the humility within the Clojure community: ------------------ Well, I was bragging to Alan about a Drake release, which I was calling 0.2.0.

Quote examples

1

I wonder if it will have a "Drake" mode to do 0-100 real quick.

2

Everybody talks about this vulnerability (discover by Drake the co-author of Android Hacker’s Handbook) as “remote code execution” bugs, but I didn't find a single thread that show the code to send or the way to hack the Stagefright’s permissions.

3

He was like, “Considering the conventions put forth by Semantic Versioning, and considering that Drake has been in production at this company as well as other companies for years now, why not call it version 1 already?” I pushed back a bit, by surveying two existing open source Clojure projects I know of: Aleph, Zach Tellman’s notorious asynchronous library for Clojure, is currently versioned 0.4.x.

Proper noun examples

1

Josh Drake(the researcher who found the stage fright exploit) was interviewed on the last episode of the risky business podcast.

2

It was always about her, and Kanye West, and Drake, and the rest of music's elite.

3

My first thought was they did it because they didn't want to rename 'Swift' to 'Drake'.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use drake in a sentence?

According to my local Home Depot, a utility-grade toilet is $79, and the cheapest Toto Drake is $189.

What does drake mean?

A male duck.

What part of speech is drake?

drake is commonly used as noun.