drive

Alternative forms

• (type of public roadway): Dr. (when part of a specific street’s name)

Pronunciation

• enPR: drīv, IPA: /dɹaɪv/
• IPA: [d̠ɹ̠ ̝ʷaɪv], [dʒɹaɪv]

Noun

drive (countable and uncountable, plural drives)

1. Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
   • Synonyms: ambition, grit, push, verve, motivation, get-up-and-go, self-motivation
   • Antonyms: inertia, lack of motivation, laziness, phlegm, sloth
   • Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.
2. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
3. An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
4. An act of driving (prompting) livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
   • Synonym: drove
5. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
   • Synonyms: attack, push
   • Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.
6. A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
   • Synonyms: gear, engine, [Term?], motor
   • a typical steam drive
   • a nuclear drive
   • chain drive
   • front-wheel drive
   • Some old model trains have clockwork drives.
7. A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
   • Synonyms: ride, spin, trip
   • It was a long drive.
8. A driveway.
   • Synonyms: approach, driveway
   • The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive.
9. A type of public roadway.
   • Synonyms: avenue, boulevard, road, street
   • Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive.
10. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
11. (psychology) Desire or interest.
    • Synonyms: desire, impetus, impulse, urge
12. (computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
    • Synonym: disk drive
    • Hyponym: floppy drive
13. (computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
    • Hyponyms: hard drive, flash drive
14. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
15. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
16. (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.
17. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
18. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
19. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
    • a whist drive
    • a beetle drive
20. (retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
    • vaccination drive
21. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
22. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

Verb

drive (third-person singular simple present drives, present participle driving, simple past drove or (archaic) drave or (dialectal) driv, past participle driven or (dialectal) druv)

1. (transitive) 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.
2. (transitive) To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
   • My husband's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction.
3. To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
4. 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.
5. (transitive) (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
6. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
7. (transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
   • The beaters drove the brambles, causing a great rush of rabbits and other creatures.
8. (transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
   • You drive nails into wood with a hammer.
9. (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
   • The pistons drive the crankshaft.
10. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
    • drive a car
    • This SUV drives like a car.
11. (transitive, slang, aviation) To operate (an aircraft).
    • drive a 737
12. (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
    • What drives a person to run a marathon?
13. (transitive) To compel (to do something).
    • Their debts finally drove them to sell the business.
14. (transitive) To cause to become.
    • This constant complaining is going to drive me to insanity.   You are driving me crazy!
15. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
16. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
    • I drive to work every day.
17. (transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
    • My cousin drove me to the airport.
18. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
19. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
20. (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
21. (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
22. (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
23. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
24. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
25. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
26. (transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
27. To be the dominant party in a sex act.

Anagrams

• Verdi, deriv., diver, rived, vired

Pronunciation

• IPA: /driːvə/, [ˈd̥ʁiːʋə], [ˈd̥ʁiːʊ]

Verb

drive (past tense drev, past participle drevet, attributive common dreven, attributive definite and plural drevne)

1. (transitive) to force, drive, impel (to put in motion)
2. (transitive) to run (a business)
3. (transitive) to engage in, carry on (an activity or an interest)
4. (transitive) to power (to give power to)
5. (intransitive) to drift, float (to move slowly)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /driːvə/, [ˈd̥ʁiːʋə], [ˈd̥ʁiːʊ]

Noun

drive c (singular definite driven, plural indefinite driver)

1. drift (a pile of snow)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /drajv/, [ˈd̥ɹɑjʋ]

Noun

drive c (singular definite driven, not used in plural form)

1. (psychology) drive (desire or interest, self-motivation)

Noun

drive n (singular definite drivet, plural indefinite drives)

1. (golf) drive (stroke made with a driver)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dʁajv/
• Homophones: drivent, drives

Verb

drive

1. inflection of driver:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Verb

drive (imperative driv, present tense driver, passive drives, simple past drev or dreiv, past participle drevet, present tense drivende)

1. to move; turn
2. to pursue
3. to deviate
4. to float; drift
5. to operate; run
6. to follow
7. to drive, propel

Verb

drive (present tense driv, past tense dreiv, supine drive, past participle driven, present participle drivande, imperative driv)

1. Alternative form of driva

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdɾajv/, /ˈdɾaj.vi/

Noun

drive (Brazil) m or (Portugal) f (plural drives)

1. (computer hardware) drive (a mass-storage device)

Noun

drive (plural drives)

1. a drive
2. a forceful blow, a swipe

Verb

drive (third-person singular present drives, present participle drivin, past drave, past participle driven)

1. to drive

Verb

drive

1. Alternative form of dhreeve