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Verb: drive (drove,driven) drIv- Operate or control a vehicle
"drive a car or bus"; "Can you drive this four-wheel truck?" - Travel or be transported in a vehicle
"We drove to the university every morning" - Noun: drive drIv- The act of applying force to propel something
"after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off" - thrust, driving force - A mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
"a variable speed drive permitted operation through a range of speeds" - A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
"the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant" - campaign, cause, crusade, movement, effort - A road leading up to a private house
- driveway, private road - The trait of being highly motivated
"his drive and energy exhausted his co-workers" - Hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
"he sliced his drive out of bounds" - driving - The act of driving a herd of animals overland
- A journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
"he took the family for a drive in his new car" - ride - A physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
- (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
- A wide scenic road planted with trees
"the riverside drive offers many exciting scenic views" - parkway [N. Amer] - (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
Derived forms: drives, driven, driving, drove See also: drift, drive in, drive out, driver, driving Type of: actuation, coerce, control, conveyance, cover, cross, cut across, cut through, device, dig, displace, do work, excavate, fight, force, get across, get over, go, golf shot, golf stroke, hale [archaic], hit, hollow, hunt, hunt down, impel, intend, journey, journeying, locomote, make, mean, mechanism, move, operate, pass over, physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state, power, pressure, propel, propulsion, push, return, road, route, run, squeeze, struggle, swing, throw, thrust, track, track down, trait, transfer, transferral, transport, transportation, travel, traverse, venture, work Encyclopedia: Drive Drive, He Said |