What is drive?

More definitions of "drive":

• (noun): A road leading up to a private house.
  Synonyms: driveway, private road

• (verb): Travel or be transported in a vehicle.
  Synonyms: motor

• (verb): Work as a driver.
  Example: "He drives a bread truck"; "She drives for the taxi company in Newark"

• (noun): The act of driving a herd of animals overland.

• (verb): Cause someone or something to move by driving.
  Example: "She drove me to school every day"; "We drove the car to the garage"

• (verb): Proceed along in a vehicle.
  Example: "We drive the turnpike to work"
  Synonyms: take

• (verb): Hunting: search for game.
  Example: "Drive the forest"

• (verb): Move into a desired direction of discourse.
  Example: "What are you driving at?"
  Synonyms: get, aim

• (noun): A mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine.
  Example: "A variable speed drive permitted operation through a range of speeds"

• (verb): Cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling.
  Example: "The amplifier drives the tube"; "steam drives the engines"; "this device drives the disks for the computer"

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

• (noun): A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else.
  Example: "He took the family for a drive in his new car"
  Synonyms: ride

• (verb): Move by being propelled by a force.
  Example: "The car drove around the corner"

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

• (verb): Operate or control a vehicle.
  Example: "Drive a car or bus"; "Can you drive this four-wheel truck?"

• (verb): Compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment.
  Example: "She finally drove him to change jobs"

• (noun): A physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire.

• (verb): Urge forward.
  Example: "Drive the cows into the barn"

• (noun): The trait of being highly motivated.
  Example: "His drive and energy exhausted his co-workers"

• (verb): Strike with a driver, as in teeing off.
  Example: "Drive a golfball"

• (verb): Hit very hard and straight with the bat swinging more or less vertically.
  Example: "Drive a ball"

• (noun): A wide scenic road planted with trees.
  Example: "The riverside drive offers many exciting scenic views"
  Synonyms: parkway

• (verb): Strive and make an effort to reach a goal.
  Example: "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"
  Synonyms: tug, labor, labour, push

• (noun): The act of applying force to propel something.
  Example: "After reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off"
  Synonyms: thrust, driving force

• (noun): A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end.
  Example: "The team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"
  Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, movement, effort

• (verb): Excavate horizontally.
  Example: "Drive a tunnel"

• (verb): Hunting: chase from cover into more open ground.
  Example: "Drive the game"

• (noun): Hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver.
  Example: "He sliced his drive out of bounds"
  Synonyms: driving

• (verb): Push, propel, or press with force.
  Example: "Drive a nail into the wall"

• (verb): Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically.
  Synonyms: force, ram

• (verb): Cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force.
  Example: "Drive the ball far out into the field"

• (verb): To compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly.
  Example: "She is driven by her passion"

• (verb): Cause to move back by force or influence.
  Synonyms: repel, repulse, force back, push back, beat back

Famous quotes containing the word drive:

“I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is contre gré that they drive themselves to the work which it entails.”
—Victoria (1819–1901)

“Why should I let the toad work
Squat on my life?
Can’t I use my wit as a pitchfork
And drive the brute off?”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“You may drive a dog off the King’s armchair, and it will climb into the preacher’s pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)