Word Finder - drive

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Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.

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Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.

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Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

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An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc.

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A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.

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Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.

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A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.

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Some old model trains have clockwork drives.

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A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).

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It was a long drive.

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A driveway.

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The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive.

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A type of public roadway.

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Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive.

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A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.

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Desire or interest.

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An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.

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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.

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A stroke made with a driver.

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A ball struck in a flat trajectory.

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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.

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A straight level shot or pass.

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An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.

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A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.

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a whist drive; a beetle drive

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(retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.

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An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.

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A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

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To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.

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You drive nails into wood with a hammer.

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To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.

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My wife's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction.

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To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.

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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.

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(especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.

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to drive twenty thousand head of cattle from Texas to the Kansas railheads; to drive sheep out of a field

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To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.

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To cause animals to flee out of.

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The beaters drove the brambles, causing a great rush of rabbits and other creatures.

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To move (something) by hitting it with great force.

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You drive nails into wood with a hammer.

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To cause (a mechanism) to operate.

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The pistons drive the crankshaft.

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To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).

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drive a car

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To motivate; to provide an incentive for.

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What drives a person to run a marathon?

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To compel (to do something).

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Their debts finally drove them to sell the business.

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To cause to become.

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This constant complaining is going to drive me to insanity.   You are driving me crazy!

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To hit the ball with a drive.

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To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.

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I drive to work every day.

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To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.

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My wife drove me to the airport.

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To move forcefully.

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To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).

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To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.

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To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.

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To clear, by forcing away what is contained.

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To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.

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To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.

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To distrain for rent.

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To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.

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To be the dominant party in a sex act.

Are you sure you can drive alright?

I think Alex makes a concentrated effort to drive his father crazy.

I don't want you to drive while you're so tired.

Do you want me to drive you there?

A stop for lunch and then a drive over the biggest bridge Carmen had ever seen - and then they were in Galveston.

We drive up to Vermont every spring.

This weekend she would drive out and talk to him.

Martha would drive Howie to Boston's Logan Airport for his flight back to California while Quinn would remain to pack up his equipment before leaving later for a hundred mile drive to their home in nearby Peabody, Mass.

She could drive, if someone would simply tell her where they were.

I would not be one of those who will foolishly drive a nail into mere lath and plastering; such a deed would keep me awake nights.

Drive all three to death but get me there in three hours.

He would want to know, yet if he did, he might try to drive in on icy highways.

She sauntered up the drive, trying to appear casual.

Why drive down there?

They would find someone to drive the wagon back across the desert.

Maybe friends didn't let friends drive drunk, but how did they stop them when there were so many?

For the foreseeable future, technological advance will drive the world of wealth creation—and it is capable of producing more wealth than everything that has come before it.

If people were permanently obsessed with food, all individual thought, all capacity to argue, even people's sex drive, would disappear.

While the right thing to do is never to drive drunk, be a smoker, or be a racist, occasionally war is the right thing to do.

It will drive all the nonsense out of your head.

He had enough alcohol in his veins to believe he could drive, and too much pride to leave the party in the passenger seat.

Fortunately, her father heard a car drive away so the time of abduction was clearly set.

I foresee a day when, on a Sunday afternoon, a family might drive (or actually be driven by their car) out to a farm to see where food comes from.

But having your starlet drive eighty mph whilst liquored up, well, that was fine.

But if the aim of the battle was what actually resulted and what all the Russians of that day desired--to drive the French out of Russia and destroy their army--it is quite clear that the battle of Tarutino, just because of its incongruities, was exactly what was wanted at that stage of the campaign.

Thirty minutes later she was walking down the drive to meet Connie, never having betrayed his trust.

Why don't you drive out here with your truck?

Finally, we condensed everything on a small computer thumb drive which we hid in the removable base of a desk lamp.

And as I look to the past and the present, I see two phenomena that especially drive my optimism.

And drive she does!

I remember that in 1993 I needed a big hard drive at work and got a 1GB drive.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction--a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.

Giddon went back into the building and Lisa made her way through the darkening woods to the spot in the drive where she had entered.

I'd have been glad to drive you home.

I'd planned to wait until Betsy and Molly returned from walking Bumpus but I decided if I had to drive back into downtown Keene, I might as well swing by Wheelock Park Campground as it was on the way, at least sort-of.

Why the boys should drive away, Little maidens from their play, Or love to banter and fight so well, That's the thing I never could tell.

As she turned into the circular drive and shut off the engine, she let out a long sigh.

But she could drive him crazy.

We were an hour into our drive south before I broached the subject, asking her about the tete-a-tete.

I'm going to leave my truck here so you'll have something to drive.

We have to drive around the barricades and all.

You're ticked off; your bladder's full, so you drive in anyway.

What kind of car does he drive?

The drive to Maid Marian Lane was becoming more familiar with each passing trip—no more need to count the blocks.

He can't drive the truck and ride his bike at the same time.

That would drive me insane.

Keaton's car was parked in the drive when she arrived, but he was nowhere in sight.

She maneuvered the car around Denton's vehicle and sped down the drive.

Tomorrow he would make arrangements to fly back to Arkansas and drive his car back.

She'd hoped to see Toni drive Xander crazy.