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Drive   /draɪv/   Listen
Drive

noun
1.
The act of applying force to propel something.  Synonyms: driving force, thrust.
2.
A mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine.
3.
A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end.  Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, effort, movement.  "They worked in the cause of world peace" , "The team was ready for a drive toward the pennant" , "The movement to end slavery" , "Contributed to the war effort"
4.
A road leading up to a private house.  Synonyms: driveway, private road.
5.
The trait of being highly motivated.
6.
Hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver.  Synonym: driving.
7.
The act of driving a herd of animals overland.
8.
A journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile).  Synonym: ride.
9.
A physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire.
10.
(computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium.
11.
A wide scenic road planted with trees.  Synonym: parkway.
12.
(sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash).
verb
(past drove, formerly drave; past part. driven; pres. part. driving)
1.
Operate or control a vehicle.  "Can you drive this four-wheel truck?"
2.
Travel or be transported in a vehicle.  Synonym: motor.  "They motored to London for the theater"
3.
Cause someone or something to move by driving.  "We drove the car to the garage"
4.
Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically.  Synonyms: force, ram.  "He drives me mad"
5.
To compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly.
6.
Cause to move back by force or influence.  Synonyms: beat back, force back, push back, repel, repulse.  "Push back the urge to smoke" , "Beat back the invaders"
7.
Compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment.
8.
Push, propel, or press with force.
9.
Cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force.
10.
Strive and make an effort to reach a goal.  Synonyms: labor, labour, push, tug.  "We have to push a little to make the deadline!" , "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"
11.
Move into a desired direction of discourse.  Synonyms: aim, get.
12.
Have certain properties when driven.  Synonym: ride.  "My new truck drives well"
13.
Work as a driver.  "She drives for the taxi company in Newark"
14.
Move by being propelled by a force.
15.
Urge forward.
16.
Proceed along in a vehicle.  Synonym: take.
17.
Strike with a driver, as in teeing off.
18.
Hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally.
19.
Excavate horizontally.
20.
Cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling.  "Steam drives the engines" , "This device drives the disks for the computer"
21.
Hunting: search for game.
22.
Hunting: chase from cover into more open ground.



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"Drive" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Sylvia will drive you into Weymouth in the dog-cart after breakfast," said Garratt Skinner, and he made no further reference to the journey. But he glared at the handwriting of the letter, and then with some perplexity at Walter Hine. "You will be ...
— Running Water • A. E. W. Mason
... is hard, clear, exhilarating. The snow has spread out rather than melted, and encroached still farther down the hillsides, but the sun waxes strong as we drive to the upper water, and the bolder mountains up at the lake are in dazzling splendour, and apparently close. There is a wire across the stream, an easy means of crossing for the ladies and gentlemen who inhabit the handsome fishing lodge built by ...
— Lines in Pleasant Places - Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler • William Senior
... this he will perhaps come on land; and if he does not, he will at least float to the surface of the water, and is then killed with spears. In olden days Kayans used to make a crocodile of clay and ask it to drive away evil spirits; but now this is not done. A crocodile may become a man just like themselves. Sometimes a man dreams that a crocodile calls him to become his blood-brother, and after they have gone through the regular ceremony and exchanged names (in the dream), the man ...
— The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall
... most ignorant, and most timid, who could be dragged into the field; and the Emperor was happy in his own good luck, when he found it possible to conduct a defensive war on a counterbalancing principle, making use of the Scythian to repel the Turk, or of both these savage people to drive back the fiery-footed Frank, whom Peter the Hermit had, in the time of Alexius, waked to double fury, by the powerful influence of ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
... the court by too great leniency. The substitution of another judge would avoid either tendency but it is not always possible. Of course where acts of contempt are palpably aggravated by a personal attack upon the judge in order to drive the judge out of the case for ulterior reasons, the scheme should not be permitted to succeed. But attempts of this kind are rare. All of such cases, however, present difficult questions for the judge. All we can say upon the whole ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin


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