drive

drive
    n 1: the act of applying force to propel something; "after
         reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off" [syn:
         {drive}, {thrust}, {driving force}]
    2: a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a
       machine; "a variable speed drive permitted operation through
       a range of speeds"
    3: 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" [syn: {campaign}, {cause},
       {crusade}, {drive}, {movement}, {effort}]
    4: a road leading up to a private house; "they parked in the
       driveway" [syn: {driveway}, {drive}, {private road}]
    5: the trait of being highly motivated; "his drive and energy
       exhausted his co-workers"
    6: hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver; "he sliced
       his drive out of bounds" [syn: {drive}, {driving}]
    7: the act of driving a herd of animals overland
    8: a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile); "he took the
       family for a drive in his new car" [syn: {drive}, {ride}]
    9: a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or
       desire
    10: (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads
        data from a storage medium
    11: a wide scenic road planted with trees; "the riverside drive
        offers many exciting scenic views" [syn: {drive}, {parkway}]
    12: (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
    v 1: operate or control a vehicle; "drive a car or bus"; "Can
         you drive this four-wheel truck?"
    2: travel or be transported in a vehicle; "We drove to the
       university every morning"; "They motored to London for the
       theater" [syn: {drive}, {motor}]
    3: cause someone or something to move by driving; "She drove me
       to school every day"; "We drove the car to the garage"
    4: force into or from an action or state, either physically or
       metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives
       me mad" [syn: {force}, {drive}, {ram}]
    5: to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive
       pressure on, or motivate strongly; "She is driven by her
       passion"
    6: cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy";
       "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders" [syn:
       {repel}, {drive}, {repulse}, {force back}, {push back}, {beat
       back}] [ant: {attract}, {draw}, {draw in}, {pull}, {pull in}]
    7: compel somebody to do something, often against his own will
       or judgment; "She finally drove him to change jobs"
    8: push, propel, or press with force; "Drive a nail into the
       wall"
    9: cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force;
       "drive the ball far out into the field"
    10: 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" [syn: {tug}, {labor}, {labour}, {push}, {drive}]
    11: move into a desired direction of discourse; "What are you
        driving at?" [syn: {drive}, {get}, {aim}]
    12: have certain properties when driven; "This car rides
        smoothly"; "My new truck drives well" [syn: {drive}, {ride}]
    13: work as a driver; "He drives a bread truck"; "She drives for
        the taxi company in Newark"
    14: move by being propelled by a force; "The car drove around
        the corner"
    15: urge forward; "drive the cows into the barn"
    16: proceed along in a vehicle; "We drive the turnpike to work"
        [syn: {drive}, {take}]
    17: strike with a driver, as in teeing off; "drive a golf ball"
    18: hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally; "drive a
        ball"
    19: excavate horizontally; "drive a tunnel"
    20: 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"
    21: hunting: search for game; "drive the forest"
    22: hunting: chase from cover into more open ground; "drive the
        game"
    

Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), v. t. [imp. {Drove} (dr[=o]v),
   formerly {Drave} (dr[=a]v); p. p. {Driven} (dr[i^]v'n); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Driving}.] [AS. dr[imac]fan; akin to OS.
   dr[imac]ban, D. drijven, OHG. tr[imac]ban, G. treiben, Icel.
   dr[imac]fa, 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.
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            A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. --Jowett
                                                  (Thucyd. ).
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            Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along.
                                                  --Pope.
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            Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. --Pope.
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   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.
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            How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother!
                                                  --Thackeray.
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   3. To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain;
      to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive
      a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of
      circumstances, by argument, and the like. " Enough to
      drive one mad." --Tennyson.
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            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.
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   4. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
      [Now used only colloquially.] --Bacon.
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            The trade of life can not be driven without
            partners.                             --Collier.
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   5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
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            To drive the country, force the swains away.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   6. (Mining) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery
      or tunnel. --Tomlinson.
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   7. To pass away; -- said of time. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   8. Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, etc., to
      propel (the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible
      throw.
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   9. to operate (a vehicle) while it is on motion, by
      manipulating the controls, such as the steering,
      propulsion, and braking mechanisms.
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Drive \Drive\, n.
   1. In various games, as tennis, cricket, etc., the act of
      player who drives the ball; the stroke or blow; the flight
      of the ball, etc., so driven.
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   2. (Golf) A stroke from the tee, generally a full shot made
      with a driver; also, the distance covered by such a
      stroke.
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   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.
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Drive \Drive\, v. i.
   1. To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.
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            Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            Under cover of the night and a driving tempest.
                                                  --Prescott.
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            Time driveth onward fast,
            And in a little while our lips are dumb. --Tennyson.
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   2. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any
      physical force or agent; to be driven.
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            The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn.
                                                  --Byron.
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            The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers.
                                                  --Thackeray.
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   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.
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   4. To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an
      effort; to strive; -- usually with at.
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            Let them therefore declare what carnal or secular
            interest he drove at.                 --South.
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   5. To distrain for rent. [Obs.]
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   6. (Golf) To make a drive, or stroke from the tee.
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   7. to go from one place to another in a vehicle, serving as
      the operator of the vehicle; to drive[9] a vehicle from
      one location to another. He drove from New York to Boston
      in four hours.
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   {To let drive}, to aim a blow; to strike with force; to
      attack. "Four rogues in buckram let drive at me." --Shak.
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Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), p. p.
   Driven. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), 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.
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   2. A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared
      for driving.
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   3. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a
      forced or hurried dispatch of business.
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            The Murdstonian drive in business.    --M. Arnold.
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   4. In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix,
      formed by a punch drift.
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   5. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to
      be floated down a river. [Colloq.]

   Syn: See {Ride}.
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   6. a private road; a driveway.
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   7. a strong psychological motivation to perform some
      activity.
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   8. (Computers) a device for reading or writing data from or
      to a data storage medium, as a {disk drive}, a {tape
      drive}, a {CD drive}, etc.
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   9. an organized effort by a group to accomplish a goal within
      a limited period of time; as, a fund-raising drive.
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   10. a physiological function of an organism motivating it to
       perform specific behaviors; as, the sex drive.
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   11. (Football) the period during which one team sustains
       movement of the ball toward the opponent's goal without
       losing possession of the ball; as, a long drive
       downfield.
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   12. an act of driving a vehicle, especially an automobile;
       the journey undertaken by driving an automobile; as, to
       go for a drive in the country.
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   13. the mechanism which causes the moving parts of a machine
       to move; as, a belt drive.
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   14. the way in which the propulsive force of a vehicle is
       transmitted to the road; as, a car with four-wheel drive,
       front-wheel drive, etc.
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692 Moby Thesaurus words for "drive":
      Autobahn, Sunday drive, US highway, acceleration, activity,
      actuate, advance, advance against, advance upon, adventuresomeness,
      adventurousness, aggravated assault, aggression, aggressiveness,
      airing, alley, alleyway, allude to, ambition, ambitiousness,
      amperage, amphibious attack, angle, animate, appeal, appliance,
      approach, ardor, armed assault, armipotence, army, arterial,
      arterial highway, arterial street, artery, assailing, assailment,
      assault, attack, authority, auto, automatic response, autoroute,
      autostrada, avenue, bait the hook, bang, banzai attack, barnstorm,
      be responsible for, bear, bear down upon, bear off, bear upon,
      beat, beef, belt highway, beset, bicycle, bike, bind, bite,
      bitingness, black power, blind alley, blind impulse, blitz,
      blitzkrieg, bob, boost, bore, boulevard, bowl, brain wave,
      brainstorm, breakthrough, brute force, buck, bull, bulldoze, bump,
      bump against, bunch, bunt, burden, burrow, burst, bus, bustle,
      busy, butt, butt against, bypass, byway, cage, camino real,
      campaign, carriageway, carry on, carry out, carry through,
      catch a train, cause, cause to, causeway, causey, charge,
      charioteer, charisma, chase, chauffeur, chaussee, circumferential,
      clam, close, clout, coerce, cogence, cogency, colony, commitment,
      compel, compulsion, concupiscence, conduct, constrain, constraint,
      control, convenience, copilot, corduroy road, corral,
      counterattack, counteroffensive, county road, coup de main, course,
      court, cram, crescent, crippling attack, crowd, crusade,
      cul-de-sac, curiosity, cuttingness, cycle, dap, dash, dead set at,
      dead-end street, deal with, delve, demand, descent on,
      desideration, desire, determination, dib, dibble, dig, dig out,
      dike, dint, direct, dirt road, dive, diversion,
      diversionary attack, dog, dredge, drift, drift off course, drill,
      drive at, drive on, driveway, driving force, drove, duress,
      dynamism, eagerness, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, effort,
      egg, elbow, energy, enforce, engine, enginery, enterprise,
      enterprisingness, enthusiasm, entrain, excavate, excursion, exhort,
      exigency, expedition, expressway, facility, fag, faith, falcon,
      fall down, fancy, fantasy, fetch away, fire, fish, fixture, flank,
      flank attack, flash, fleeting impulse, flock, flower power, flurry,
      flush, flutter, fly, fly-fish, follow the hounds, force,
      force majeure, forcefulness, forge ahead, forward, fowl, freeway,
      frontal attack, full blast, full force, furrow, gam, gang, gas,
      gas attack, get at, get-up-and-get, get-up-and-go, getaway, getup,
      gig, ginger, give an impetus, give momentum, go, go ahead,
      go all out, go by rail, go fishing, go hunting, go-ahead,
      go-getting, go-to-itiveness, goad, gouge, gouge out, grave,
      gravel road, great cause, grig, grip, groove, grub, guddle, guide,
      gumption, gun, gut response, guts, hammer, handle, haste, have,
      have in mind, hawk, head-on attack, helter-skelter, herd,
      high-pressure, highroad, highway, highways and byways, hint at,
      hold, hold the reins, holy war, hope, horme, host, hound, hunt,
      hunt down, hurry, hurry-scurry, hurtle, hustle, impel, impellent,
      impelling force, impetus, imply, impressiveness, impulse,
      impulsion, incentive, incisiveness, incite, incitement, indicate,
      induce, industry, infatuate, infiltrate, infiltration, influence,
      initiative, inspiration, instigate, instinct,
      intellectual curiosity, intend, interest, interstate highway,
      intimate, involuntary impulse, irresistible force, issue, jab,
      jack, jacklight, jam, jig, jihad, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle,
      journey, joyride, keenness, keep busy, kennel, kick, lane, lash,
      launch an attack, libido, lifework, lift, lightning attack,
      lightning war, litter, local road, lower, lunge, lust for learning,
      machine, machinery, main drag, main force, main road,
      main strength, make, make a train, make go, make leeway,
      make things hum, mana, manage, maneuver, manipulate, march against,
      march upon, mass attack, mass movement, mean, mechanical aid,
      mechanical device, mechanism, megadeath, mews, might,
      might and main, mightiness, mind, mine, mobilize, moil, moment,
      momentum, mordancy, motivate, motive power, motor, motorcycle,
      motorway, mount an attack, move, movement, moxie, mugging,
      muscle power, natural impulse, need, nervosity, nervousness, net,
      not let go, notion, nudge, oblige, obsess, offense, offensive,
      onset, onslaught, open an offensive, operate, oppress, outing,
      overdrive, overkill, overtask, overtax, overwork, pack,
      panzer warfare, parkway, passion, pave, paved road, pay off, pedal,
      peel off, pep, pepper, perform on, persistence, pickup, pike,
      pile drive, pilot, pinch, piss and vinegar, pitch, pizzazz, place,
      plank road, play, pleasure, pleasure principle, plunge, pod,
      poignancy, poke, pole, poop, possess, potence, potency,
      potentiality, pound, power, power pack, power plant, power source,
      power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, practice, preoccupy,
      prepotency, press, press on, pressure, prick, pride,
      primary highway, principle, private road, proceed, prod,
      productiveness, productivity, propel, propelling, propelment,
      propulsion, prowl after, puissance, pull, pulsion, punch,
      punch cattle, push, pushfulness, pushiness, pushing, pushingness,
      put in motion, quarry, quick hunch, quickening, race, ram,
      ram down, rash impulse, rattle, reason for being, refer to, reflex,
      require, restrain, ride, ride herd on, ride to hounds,
      right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, roll, round up,
      route nationale, row, royal road, run, run against, run at, rush,
      sag, sally, sap, scamper, school, scoop, scoop out, scrabble,
      scramble, scrape, scratch, scurry, scuttle, see to, seine, send,
      set agoing, set going, set in motion, sexual desire, shake,
      shepherd, shikar, shoal, shock tactics, shoot, shoot ahead,
      shoulder, shove, shovel, shoving, shrimp, shunt, sic, sinew,
      sinewiness, sink, skulk, sloth, snap, solo, sortie, spade, speed,
      speedup, speedway, spin, spirit, sport, spunk, spur, stab, stalk,
      stamp, starch, start, state highway, steam, steer, step lively,
      step-up, stick, still-fish, still-hunt, strain, street, strength,
      stress, strike, strive, strong arm, strong language,
      sudden thought, suggest, superhighway, superiority, superpower,
      sweat, sweep, sweep along, take a joyride, take care of,
      take the helm, tamp, task, tax, taxi, terrace,
      thirst for knowledge, thoroughfare, through street, thrust,
      thruway, tie, toil, toll road, tool, torch, tour, township road,
      track, trail, travel, trawl, treadle, trench, trenchancy, trip,
      troll, troop, trough, trundle, tug, tunnel, turn, turnpike,
      unprovoked assault, up-and-comingness, urge, urgency,
      use force upon, utility, validity, vehemence, velocity,
      venturesomeness, venturousness, verve, vigor, vigorousness, vim,
      virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, want, wanting, war, wattage,
      weight, whale, wheel, whip, whip on, whirl, will,
      will and pleasure, wish, wish fulfillment, work, wrangle, wynd,
      yaw, yaw off, zeal, zing, zip