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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



... eye, to the popular eye—but I knew when I was dropping information and when I was letting drive at the court with an insidious argument. But the court knew it, bless you, and weakened every time! And Brabant knew it. I just reminded him of it in a quiet way, and its final result, and he said in a whisper, ...
— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

... turn we got with Jim was the worst. I had had the wife and Jim out camping with me in a tent at a dam I was making at Cattle Creek; I had two men working for me, and a boy to drive one of the tip-drays, and I took Mary out to cook for us. And it was lucky for us that the contract was finished and we got back to Gulgong, and within reach of a doctor, the day we did. We were just camping ...
— Joe Wilson and His Mates • Henry Lawson

... maintains that only the children of the comparatively poor ride upon their fathers' walking-sticks or construct coaches of chairs, that this "is not a proof of imagination but of an unsatisfied desire," and that rich children who own ponies and who drive out in motor-cars "would be astonished to see the delight of children who imagine themselves to be drawn along by stationary armchairs." Imitative play has, of course, nothing to do with poverty or riches, but is, as Froebel said long since, the outcome of an initiative impulse, sadly wanting ...
— The Child Under Eight • E.R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith

... road to the house to pack his portmanteau Godfrey went a little way round to arrange with a blacksmith, generally known as Tom, who jobbed out a pony-trap, to drive him to the station to catch the 7.15 train. The blacksmith remarked that they would have to hurry, and set to work to put the pony in, while Godfrey ran on to the Abbey House and hurriedly collected his clothes. He got them packed and down into the hall ...
— Love Eternal • H. Rider Haggard

... Uncle John, when the repast was over, "let us drive down to the sea and have a look at that beautiful launch that came in yesterday. Everyone is talking about it and they say it ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West • Edith Van Dyne


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