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say it: drahyv
drive is a verb and noun meaning "operate or control a vehicle". It carries 34 recorded senses.
operate or control a vehicle
“drive a car or bus”
“Can you drive this four-wheel truck?”
driving
travel or be transported in a vehicle
“We drove to the university every morning”
“They motored to London for the theater”
driving
cause someone or something to move by driving
“She drove me to school every day”
“We drove the car to the garage”
to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
“She is driven by her passion”
compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment
“She finally drove him to change jobs”
cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
“drive the ball far out into the field”
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”
the act of applying force to propel something
“after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off”
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
“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”
a road leading up to a private house
“they parked in the driveway”
hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
“he sliced his drive out of bounds”
the act of driving a herd of animals overland
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
computer science
(sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
tennis · squash
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for drive come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.