drive
IPA: drˈaɪv
noun
- Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
- Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
- An act of driving (prompting) livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
- (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
- A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
- A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
- A driveway.
- A type of public roadway.
- (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
- (psychology) Desire or interest.
- (computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
- (computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
- (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
- (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
- (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
- (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
- A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
- (retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
- (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
- A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
verb
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
- To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.
- (transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
- (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
- (transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
- (transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
- (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
- (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
- (transitive, slang, aviation) To operate (an aircraft).
- (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
- (transitive) To compel (to do something).
- (transitive) To cause to become.
- (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
- (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (intransitive) To move forcefully.
- (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
- (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
- (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
- (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
- (transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
- To be the dominant party in a sex act.
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Examples of "drive" in Sentences
- He used to drive a surrey instead of a car.
- Let her in the car and drive towards Starfish Island.
- The drive shaft transfers the force to the hydraulic pump.
- But the basic idea is to have cars drive bumper to bumper.
- This made many of that year's cars nervy and edgy to drive.