drive

Forms

1.To operate a vehicle:
- My cousin drove me to the airport.
- The bridges weren't strong enough to drive (campers) over.
- This SUV drives insanely smoothly, it's like it knows what I want before I do.
2.To compel to move:
- The hunting dog drove the birds out of the tall grass.
- We'll drive the enemy from these lands once and for all.
3.To cause to move by the application of physical force:
- You drive nails into wood with any hammer; it's not as strenuous as driving a tunnel through the rock.
- The pistons drive the crankshaft.
4.To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- Do you know how to drive a car?
- She is learning how to drive a car.
- Where are you going in such a hurry? We've got plenty of time, so drive safely.

1.Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
- Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.
- I confess that the sight of my minute man ahead, getting closer and closer, gives me a little more drive even when I think I am going as fast as I can.
2.Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; (especially) a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- The Murdstonian drive in business.
3.An act of driving (prompting) animals forward.
- Are you all ready?’ he cried, and set off towards the dead ash where the drive would begin.
4.A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take an objective.
- Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.
- On the other hand, in Eritrea (once our Forces had recaptured Kassala on January 19) the drive was generally eastward towards the capital, Asmara, and the Red Sea port of Massaua.

Very common· #496

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *drībaną

Proto-West Germanic *drīban

Old English drīfan

Middle English driven

English drive