DRIVE

drive, thrust, driving force

(noun) the act of applying force to propel something; “after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off”

drive, ride

(noun) a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile); “he took the family for a drive in his new car”

drive

(noun) the act of driving a herd of animals overland

drive

(noun) (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)

drive, driving

(noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver; “he sliced his drive out of bounds”

campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement, effort

(noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; “he supported populist campaigns”; “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”

drive, parkway

(noun) a wide scenic road planted with trees; “the riverside drive offers many exciting scenic views”

drive

(noun) a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine; “a variable speed drive permitted operation through a range of speeds”

drive

(noun) (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium

driveway, drive, private road

(noun) a road leading up to a private house; “they parked in the driveway”

drive

(noun) the trait of being highly motivated; “his drive and energy exhausted his co-workers”

drive

(noun) a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire

drive, get, aim

(verb) move into a desired direction of discourse; “What are you driving at?”

drive

(verb) (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground; “drive the game”

drive

(verb) (hunting) search for game; “drive the forest”

drive

(verb) cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling; “The amplifier drives the tube”; “steam drives the engines”; “this device drives the disks for the computer”

drive

(verb) excavate horizontally; “drive a tunnel”

drive

(verb) hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally; “drive a ball”

drive

(verb) strike with a driver, as in teeing off; “drive a golf ball”

repel, drive, repulse, force back, push back, beat back

(verb) cause to move back by force or influence; “repel the enemy”; “push back the urge to smoke”; “beat back the invaders”

drive

(verb) cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force; “drive the ball far out into the field”

drive

(verb) push, propel, or press with force; “Drive a nail into the wall”

force, drive, ram

(verb) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; “She rammed her mind into focus”; “He drives me mad”

drive

(verb) compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment; “She finally drove him to change jobs”

drive, motor

(verb) travel or be transported in a vehicle; “We drove to the university every morning”; “They motored to London for the theater”

drive

(verb) operate or control a vehicle; “drive a car or bus”; “Can you drive this four-wheel truck?”

drive

(verb) cause someone or something to move by driving; “She drove me to school every day”; “We drove the car to the garage”

drive

(verb) move by being propelled by a force; “The car drove around the corner”

tug, labor, labour, push, drive

(verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal; “She tugged for years to make a decent living”; “We have to push a little to make the deadline!”; “She is driving away at her doctoral thesis”

drive

(verb) to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly; “She is driven by her passion”

drive, ride

(verb) have certain properties when driven; “This car rides smoothly”; “My new truck drives well”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

drive (countable and uncountable, plural drives)

Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.

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.

(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, as a floppy drive.

(computer hardware) 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.

(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.

Usage notes

• In connection with a mass-storage device, originally the word “drive” referred solely to the reading and writing mechanism. For the storage device itself, the word “disk” was used instead. This remains a valid distinction for components such as floppy drives or CD drives, in which the drive and the disk are separate and independent items. For other devices, such as hard disks and flash drives, the reading, writing and storage components are combined into an integrated whole, and cannot be separated without destroying the device. In these cases, the words “disk” and “drive” are used interchangeably.

Synonyms

• (self-motivation): ambition, enthusiasm, get-up-and-go, motivation, self-motivation, verve

• (sustained advance in the face of the enemy): attack, push

• (mechanism used to power a vehicle): engine, mechanism, motor

• (trip made in a motor vehicle): ride, spin, trip

• (driveway): approach, driveway

• (public roadway): avenue, boulevard, road, street

• (psychology: desire, interest): desire, impetus, impulse, urge

• (computing: mass-storage device): disk drive

• (golf term)

• (baseball term): line drive

• (cricket term)

Antonyms

• (self-motivation): inertia, lack of motivation, laziness, phlegm, sloth

Hyponyms

• blood drive

• bridge drive

• disk drive

• flash drive

• floppy drive

• food drive

• four-wheel drive, four-wheel-drive

• hard drive

• jump drive

• left-hand drive

• toy drive

• right-hand drive

• sex drive

• warp drive

• whist drive

Verb

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

(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) 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.

Synonyms

• (herd (animals) in a particular direction): herd

• (cause animals to flee out of)

• (move something by hitting it with great force): force, push

• (cause (a mechanism) to operate): move, operate

• (operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle))

• (motivate, provide an incentive for): impel, incentivise/incentivize, motivate, push, urge

• (compel): compel, force, oblige, push, require

• (cause to become): make, send, render

• (travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle): motorvate

• (convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle): take

Hyponyms

• test-drive

Anagrams

• Verdi, deriv., diver, rived, vired

Source: Wiktionary

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Drive, v. t. [imp. Drove, formerly Drave (p. p. Driven; p. pr. & vb. n. Driving.] Etym: [AS. drifan; akin to OS. driban, D. drijven, OHG. triban, G. treiben, Icel. drifa, Goth. dreiban. Cf. Drift, Drove.]

1. To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room. A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along. Pope. Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. Pope.

2. To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door. How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother! Thackeray.

3. To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like. " Enough to drive one mad." Tennyson. He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his. Sir P. Sidney.

4. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. [Now used only colloquially.] Bacon. The trade of life can not be driven without partners. Collier.

5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained. To drive the country, force the swains away. Dryden.

6. (Mining)

Definition: To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson.

7. To pass away; -- said of time. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by applying a force behind; to lead is to cause to move by applying the force before, or in front. It takes a variety of meanings, according to the objects by which it is followed; as, to drive an engine, to direct and regulate its motions; to drive logs, to keep them in the current of a river and direct them in their course; to drive feathers or down, to place them in a machine, which, by a current of air, drives off the lightest to one end, and collects them by themselves. "My thrice-driven bed of down." Shak.

Drive, v. i.

1. To rush and press with violence; to move furiously. Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails. Dryden. Under cover of the night and a driving tempest. Prescott. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Tennyson.

2. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven. The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn. Byron. The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers. Thackeray.

3. To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door.

4. To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at. Let them therefore declare what carnal or secular interest he drove at. South.

5. To distrain for rent. [Obs.] To let drive, to aim a blow; to strike with force; to attack. "Four rogues in buckram let drive at me." Shak.

Drive, p. p.

Definition: Driven. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Drive, n.

1. The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.

2. A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.

3. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business. The Murdstonian drive in business. M. Arnold.

4. In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.

5. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river. [Colloq.]

Syn.

– See Ride.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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