| drive | |
| 1. subst. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition. | |
| Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again. | |
| 2. subst. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business. | |
| 3. subst. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc. | |
| 4. subst. (military) 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. | |
| 5. subst. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use. | |
| Some old model trains have clockwork drives. | |
| 6. subst. A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle). | |
| It was a long drive. | |
| 7. subst. A driveway. | |
| The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive. | |
| 8. subst. A type of public roadway. | |
| Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive. | |
| 9. subst. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving. | |
| 10. subst. (psychology) Desire or interest. | |
| 11. subst. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive. | |
| 12. subst. (computing) 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. | |
| 13. subst. (golf) A stroke made with a driver. | |
| 14. subst. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory. | |
| 15. subst. (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. | |
| 16. subst. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass. | |
| 17. subst. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity. | |
| 18. subst. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive. | |
| a whist drive; a beetle drive | |
| 19. subst. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift. | |
| 20. subst. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river. | |
| 21. v. To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on. | |
| to drive sheep out of a field | |
| 22. v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal. | |
| 23. v. To cause animals to flee out of. | |
| 24. v. To move (something) by hitting it with great force. | |
| You drive nails into wood with a hammer. | |
| 25. v. To cause (a mechanism) to operate. | |
| The pistons drive the crankshaft. | |
| 26. v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle). | |
| drive a car | |
| 27. v. To motivate; to provide an incentive for. | |
| What drives a person to run a marathon? | |
| 28. v. To compel (to do something). | |
| Their debts finally drove them to sell the business. | |
| 29. v. To cause to become. | |
| This constant complaining is going to drive me to insanity. You are driving me crazy! | |
| 30. v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive. | |
| 31. v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle. | |
| I drive to work every day. | |
| 32. v. To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle. | |
| My wife drove me to the airport. | |
| 33. v. (intransitive) To move forcefully. | |
| 34. v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship). | |
| 35. v. To urge, press, or bring to a point or state. | |
| 36. v. To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. | |
| 37. v. To clear, by forcing away what is contained. | |
| 38. v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. | |
| 39. v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field. | |
| 40. v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent. | |
| 41. v. To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air. | |
