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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DRIVE, v.t. pret. Drove, [formerly drave; pp. Driven, G.]
1. To impel or urge forward by force; to force; to move by physical force. We drive a nail into wood with a hammer; the wind or a current drive a ship on the ocean.
2. To compel or urge forward by other means than absolute physical force, or by means that compel the will; as, to drive cattle to market. A smoke drives company from the room. A man may be drive by the necessities of the times, to abandon his country.
Drive thy business; let not thy business drive thee.
3. To chase; to hunt.
To drive the deer with hound and horn.
4. To impel a team of horses or oxen to move forward, and to direct their course; hence, to guide or regulate the course of the carriage drawn by them. We say, to drive a team, or to drive a carriage drawn by a team.
5. To impel to greater speed.
6. To clear any place by forcing away what is in it.
To drive the country, force the swains away.
7. To force; to compel; in a general sense.
8. To hurry on inconsiderately; often with on. In this sense it is more generally intransitive.
9. To distress; to straighten; as desperate men far driven.
10. To impel by influence of passion. Anger and lust often drive men into gross crimes.
11. To urge; to press; as, to drive an argument.
12. To impel by moral influence; to compel; as, the reasoning of his opponent drove him to acknowledge his error.
13. To carry on; to prosecute; to keep in motion; as, to drive a trade; to drive business.
14. To make light by motion or agitation; as, to drive feathers.
His thrice driven bed of down.
The sense is probably to beat; but I do not recollect this application of the word in America.
To drive away, to force to remove to a distance; to expel; to dispel; to scatter.
To drive off, to compel to remove from a place; to expel; to drive to a distance.
To drive out, to expel.
DRIVE, v.i.
1. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; as, a ship drives before the wind.
2. To rush and press with violence; as, a storm drives against the house.
Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.
3. To pass in a carriage; as, he drove to London. This phrase is elliptical. He drove his horses or carriage to London.
4. To aim at or tend to; to urge towards a point; to make an effort to reach or obtain; as, we know the end the author is driving at.
5. To aim a blow; to strike at with force.
Four rogues in buckram let drive at me.
Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is opposed 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 forward of the body.
DRIVE, n. Passage in a carriage.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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"

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (drove; driven; driving) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English dr?fan; akin to Old High German tr?ban to drive Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. a. to frighten or prod (as game or cattle) into moving in a desired direction b. to go through (an area) driving game animals 2. to carry on or through energetically <drives a hard bargain> 3. a. to impart a forward motion to by physical force <waves drove the boat ashore> b. to repulse, remove, or cause to go by force, authority, or influence <drive the enemy back> c. to set or keep in motion or operation <drive machinery by electricity> d. basketball to move quickly and forcefully down or along <drive the lane> <drive the baseline> 4. a. to direct the motions and course of (a draft animal) b. to operate the mechanism and controls and direct the course of (as a vehicle) <drive a car> c. to convey in a vehicle <his father drove me home> d. to float (logs) down a stream 5. a. to exert inescapable or coercive pressure on ; force <driven by his passions> b. to compel to undergo or suffer a change (as in situation or emotional state) <drove him crazy> <drove her out of business> c. to urge relentlessly to continuous exertion <the sergeant drove his recruits> d. to press or force into an activity, course, or direction <the drug habit drives addicts to steal> e. to project, inject, or impress incisively <drove her point home> 6. to force (a passage) by pressing or digging 7. a. to propel (an object of play) swiftly or forcefully <drove a long fly ball to the warning track> b. to hit (a golf ball) from the tee especially with a driver; also to drive a golf ball onto (a green) c. to cause (a run or runner) to be scored in baseball — usually used with in 8. to give shape or impulse to <factors that drive the business cycle> <the ideas that have driven history> intransitive verb 1. a. to dash, plunge, or surge ahead rapidly or violently b. to progress with strong momentum <the rain was driving hard> c. to make a quick and forceful move in basketball <driving to the hoop> 2. a. to operate a vehicle b. to have oneself carried in a vehicle 3. to drive a golf ball Synonyms: see move • drivability also driveability noun • drivable also driveable adjective II. noun Usage: often attributive Date: 1785 1. an act of driving: a. a trip in a carriage or automobile <a short drive to the coast> b. a collection and driving together of animals; also the animals gathered c. a driving of cattle or sheep overland d. a hunt or shoot in which the game is driven within the hunter's range e. the guiding of logs downstream to a mill; also the floating logs amassed in a drive f. (1) the act or an instance of driving an object of play (as a golf ball) (2) the flight of a ball <a high drive to left field> 2. a. a private road ; driveway b. a public road for driving (as in a park) 3. the state of being hurried and under pressure 4. a. a strong systematic group effort <a fund-raising drive> b. a sustained offensive effort <the drive ended in a touchdown> 5. a. the means for giving motion to a machine or machine part b. the means by which the propulsive power of an automobile is applied to the road <front wheel drive> c. the means by which the propulsion of an automotive vehicle is controlled and directed <a left-hand drive> 6. a. an offensive, aggressive, or expansionist move; especially a strong military attack against enemy-held terrain b. a quick and aggressive move toward the basket in basketball 7. a. an urgent, basic, or instinctual need ; a motivating physiological condition of an organism <a sexual drive> b. an impelling culturally acquired concern, interest, or longing <the drive to succeed> c. dynamic quality 8. a device for reading or writing on magnetic or optical media (as tapes or disks)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. (past drove; past part. driven) 1 tr. (usu. foll. by away, back, in, out, to, etc.) urge in some direction, esp. forcibly (drove back the wolves). 2 tr. a (usu. foll. by to + infin., or to + verbal noun) compel or constrain forcibly (was driven to complain; drove her to stealing). b (often foll. by to) force into a specified state (drove him mad; driven to despair). c (often refl.) urge to overwork (drives himself too hard). 3 a tr. (also absol.) operate and direct the course of (a vehicle, a locomotive, etc.) (drove a sports car; drives well). b tr. & intr. convey or be conveyed in a vehicle (drove them to the station; drove to the station in a bus) (cf. RIDE). c tr. (also absol.) be licensed or competent to drive (a vehicle) (does he drive?). d tr. (also absol.) urge and direct the course of (an animal drawing a vehicle or plough). 4 tr. (of wind, water, etc.) carry along, propel, send, or cause to go in some direction (pure as the driven snow). 5 tr. a (often foll. by into) force (a stake, nail, etc.) into place by blows (drove the nail home). b Mining bore (a tunnel, horizontal cavity, etc.). 6 tr. effect or conclude forcibly (drove a hard bargain; drove his point home). 7 tr. (of steam or other power) set or keep (machinery) going. 8 intr. (usu. foll. by at) work hard; dash, rush, or hasten. 9 tr. Cricket & Tennis hit (the ball) hard from a freely swung bat or racket. 10 tr. (often absol.) Golf strike (a ball) with a driver from the tee. 11 tr. chase or frighten (game, wild beasts, an enemy in warfare, etc.) from a large area to a smaller, to kill or capture; corner. 12 tr. Brit. hold a drift in (a forest etc.) (see DRIFT n. 9). --n. 1 an act of driving in a motor vehicle; a journey or excursion in such a vehicle (went for a pleasant drive; lives an hour's drive from us). 2 a the capacity for achievement; motivation and energy (lacks the drive needed to succeed). b Psychol. an inner urge to attain a goal or satisfy a need (unconscious emotional drives). 3 a a usu. landscaped street or road. b a usu. private road through a garden or park to a house. 4 Cricket, Golf, & Tennis a driving stroke of the bat etc. 5 an organized effort to achieve a usu. charitable purpose (a famine-relief drive). 6 a the transmission of power to machinery, the wheels of a motor vehicle, etc. (belt drive; front-wheel drive). b the position of a steering-wheel in a motor vehicle (left-hand drive). c Computing = disk drive (see DISC). 7 Brit. an organized competition, for many players, of whist, bingo, etc. 8 an act of driving game or an enemy. 9 Austral. & NZ a line of partly cut trees on a hillside felled when the top one topples on the others. Phrases and idioms: drive at seek, intend, or mean (what is he driving at?). drive-in attrib.adj. (of a bank, cinema, etc.) able to be used while sitting in one's car. --n. such a bank, cinema, etc. drive-on (of a ship) on to which motor vehicles may be driven. drive out take the place of; oust; exorcize, cast out (evil spirits etc.). driving-licence a licence permitting a person to drive a motor vehicle. driving rain an excessive windblown downpour. driving-range Golf an area for practising drives. driving test an official test of a motorist's competence which must be passed to obtain a driving licence. driving-wheel 1 the large wheel of a locomotive. 2 a wheel communicating motive power in machinery. let drive aim a blow or missile. Derivatives: drivable adj. Etymology: OE drifan f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Drive Drive, v. t. Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, etc., to propel (the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible throw.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 2. (Golf) A stroke from the tee, generally a full shot made with a driver; also, the distance covered by such a stroke. 6. An implement used for driving; as: (a) A mallet. (b) A tamping iron. (c) A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops. (d) A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for playing the longest strokes. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Drive Drive, v. i. (Golf) To make a drive, or stroke from the tee.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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[=i]fan; akin to OS. dr[=i]ban, D. drijven, OHG. tr[=i]ban, G. treiben, Icel. dr[=i]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. A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along. --Pope. Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. --Pope. 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. How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother! --Thackeray. 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. 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. 4. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. [Now used only colloquially.] --Bacon. The trade of life can not be driven without partners. --Collier. 5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained. To drive the country, force the swains away. --Dryden. 6. (Mining) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. --Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Drive Drive, v. i. 1. To rush and press with violence; to move furiously. Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails. --Dryden. Under cover of the night and a driving tempest. --Prescott. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. --Tennyson. 2. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven. The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn. --Byron. The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers. --Thackeray. 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. 4. To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at. Let them therefore declare what carnal or secular interest he drove at. --South. 5. To distrain for rent. [Obs.] To let drive, to aim a blow; to strike with force; to attack. ``Four rogues in buckram let drive at me.'' --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Drive Drive (dr[imac]v), p. p. Driven. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 2. A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving. 3. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business. The Murdstonian drive in business. --M. Arnold. 4. In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift. 5. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river. [Colloq.] Syn: See Ride.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(drives, driving, drove, driven) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. When you drive somewhere, you operate a car or other vehicle and control its movement and direction. I drove into town and went to a restaurant for dinner... She never learned to drive... Mrs Glick drove her own car and the girls went in Nancy's convertible. VERB: V prep/adv, V, V n • driving ...a qualified driving instructor... N-UNCOUNT 2. If you drive someone somewhere, you take them there in a car or other vehicle. His daughter Carly drove him to the train station. VERB: V n prep/adv 3. A drive is a journey in a car or other vehicle. I thought we might go for a drive on Sunday. N-COUNT 4. A drive is a wide piece of hard ground, or sometimes a private road, that leads from the road to a person's house. = driveway N-COUNT 5. If something drives a machine, it supplies the power that makes it work. The current flows into electric motors that drive the wheels. VERB: V n 6. You use drive to refer to the mechanical part of a computer which reads the data on disks and tapes, or writes data onto them. ...equipment such as terminals, tape drives or printers. N-COUNT: usu supp N see also disk drive 7. If you drive something such as a nail into something else, you push it in or hammer it in using a lot of effort. I used a sledgehammer to drive the pegs into the ground... I held it still and drove in a nail. VERB: V n prep, V n with adv 8. In games such as cricket, golf, or football, if a player drives a ball somewhere, they kick or hit it there with a lot of force. Armstrong drove the ball into the roof of the net. VERB: V n prep/adv, also V n 9. If the wind, rain, or snow drives in a particular direction, it moves with great force in that direction. Rain drove against the window. VERB: V prep/adv • driving He crashed into a tree in driving rain. ADJ: ADJ n 10. If you drive people or animals somewhere, you make them go to or from that place. The last offensive drove thousands of people into Thailand... The smoke also drove mosquitoes away. VERB: V n prep, V n with adv 11. To drive someone into a particular state or situation means to force them into that state or situation. The recession and hospital bills drove them into bankruptcy... He nearly drove Elsie mad with his fussing. VERB: V n into/to n, V n adj 12. The desire or feeling that drives a person to do something, especially something extreme, is the desire or feeling that causes them to do it. More than once, depression drove him to attempt suicide... Jealousy drives people to murder... ...people who are driven by guilt, resentment and anxiety. ...a man driven by a pathological need to win. VERB: V n to-inf, V n to n, be V-ed, V-ed 13. If you say that someone has drive, you mean they have energy and determination. John will be best remembered for his drive and enthusiasm. 14. A drive is a very strong need or desire in human beings that makes them act in particular ways. ...compelling, dynamic sex drives. N-COUNT 15. A drive is a special effort made by a group of people for a particular purpose. The ANC is about to launch a nationwide recruitment drive... = campaign N-SING: with supp 16. Drive is used in the names of some streets. ...23 Queen's Drive, Malvern, Worcestershire. N-IN-NAMES 17. see also driving 18. If you ask someone what they are driving at, you are asking what they are trying to say or what they are saying indirectly. It was clear Cohen didn't understand what Millard was driving at. PHRASE: V inflects 19. to drive a hard bargain: see bargain

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Impel. 2. Hurl, send, propel. 3. Force, coerce, compel, oblige. 4. Press, urge. 5. Prosecute, carry on. 6. Guide (by reins). 7. Take in a carriage, carry on a drive. II. v. n. 1. Be forced along, be impelled, move helplessly, drift, scud. 2. Rush, press with violence, go furiously. 3. Go driving, take a drive, go by carriage. 4. Aim, intend. III. n. 1. Airing, ride. 2. Carriage-road, driving-course.

Moby Thesaurus

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