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drive

/dɹaɪv/
/dɹaɪv/
/dɹaɪv/

noun
verb
Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition. (Example: Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.)
Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc.
A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective. (Example: Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.)
A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part. (Example: Some old model trains have clockwork drives.)
A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle). (Example: It was a long drive.)
A driveway. (Example: The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive.)
A type of public roadway. (Example: Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive.)
A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
Desire or interest.
An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
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.
A stroke made with a driver.
A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
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.
A straight level shot or pass.
An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive. (Example: a whist drive; a beetle drive)
(retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto. (Example: You drive nails into wood with a hammer.)
To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind. (Example: My wife's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction.)
To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
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.
(especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on. (Example: to drive twenty thousand head of cattle from Texas to the Kansas railheads; to drive sheep out of a field)
To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
To cause animals to flee out of. (Example: The beaters drove the brambles, causing a great rush of rabbits and other creatures.)
To move (something) by hitting it with great force. (Example: You drive nails into wood with a hammer.)
To cause (a mechanism) to operate. (Example: The pistons drive the crankshaft.)
To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle). (Example: drive a car)
To motivate; to provide an incentive for. (Example: What drives a person to run a marathon?)
To compel (to do something). (Example: Their debts finally drove them to sell the business.)
To cause to become. (Example: This constant complaining is going to drive me to insanity.   You are driving me crazy!)
To hit the ball with a drive.
To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle. (Example: I drive to work every day.)
To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle. (Example: My wife drove me to the airport.)
To move forcefully.
To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
To distrain for rent.
To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
To be the dominant party in a sex act.
drive pronuncia e significato nel dizionario inglese