drive

  • (noun): Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
  • (noun): Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
  • (noun): An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc.
  • (noun): A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
  • (noun): A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
  • (noun): A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
  • (noun): A driveway.
  • (noun): A type of public roadway.
  • (noun): A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
  • (noun): Desire or interest.
  • (noun): An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
  • (noun): 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.
  • (noun): A stroke made with a driver.
  • (noun): A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
  • (noun): 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.
  • (noun): A straight level shot or pass.
  • (noun): An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
  • (noun): A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
  • (noun): (retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
  • (noun): An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
  • (noun): A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
  • (verb): To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
  • (verb): To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
  • (verb): To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
  • (verb): To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.
  • (verb): (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
  • (verb): To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
  • (verb): To cause animals to flee out of.
  • (verb): To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
  • (verb): To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
  • (verb): To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
  • (verb): To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
  • (verb): To compel (to do something).
  • (verb): To cause to become.
  • (verb): To hit the ball with a drive.
  • (verb): To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
  • (verb): To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
  • (verb): To move forcefully.
  • (verb): To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
  • (verb): To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
  • (verb): To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
  • (verb): To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
  • (verb): To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
  • (verb): To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
  • (verb): To distrain for rent.
  • (verb): To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
  • (verb): To be the dominant party in a sex act.
  • Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.
  • Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.
  • Some old model trains have clockwork drives.
  • It was a long drive.
  • The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive.