drive
noun
- Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
"Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again."
- Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc.
- A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
"Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous."
- A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
"Some old model trains have clockwork drives."
- A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
"It was a long drive."
- A driveway.
"The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive."
- A type of public roadway.
"Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive."
- A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
- Desire or interest.
- An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
- A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data, as a hard drive, a flash drive.
- A stroke made with a driver.
- A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
- 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.
- A straight level shot or pass.
- 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.
"a whist drive; a beetle drive"
- (retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
- 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
- To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
"You drive nails into wood with a hammer."
- To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
"My wife's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction."
- 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.
- (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
"to drive twenty thousand head of cattle from Texas to the Kansas railheads; to drive sheep out of a field"
- To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
- To cause animals to flee out of.
"The beaters drove the brambles, causing a great rush of rabbits and other creatures."
- To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
"You drive nails into wood with a hammer."
- To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
"The pistons drive the crankshaft."
- To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
"drive a car"
- To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
"What drives a person to run a marathon?"
- To compel (to do something).
"Their debts finally drove them to sell the business."
- To cause to become.
"This constant complaining is going to drive me to insanity. You are driving me crazy!"
- To hit the ball with a drive.
- To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
"I drive to work every day."
- To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
"My wife drove me to the airport."
- To move forcefully.
- To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
- To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
- To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
- To distrain for rent.
- 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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