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.