drive

operate or control a vehicle

• “drive a car or bus”
• “Can you drive this four-wheel truck?”

travel or be transported in a vehicle

• “We drove to the university every morning”
• “They motored to London for the theater”

cause someone or something to move by driving

• “She drove me to school every day”
• “We drove the car to the garage”

force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

• “She rammed her mind into focus”
• “He drives me mad”

to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly

• “She is driven by her passion”

cause to move back by force or influence

• “repel the enemy”
• “push back the urge to smoke”
• “beat back the invaders”

compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment

• “She finally drove him to change jobs”

push, propel, or press with force

• “Drive a nail into the wall”

cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force

• “drive the ball far out into the field”

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”

move into a desired direction of discourse

• “What are you driving at?”

have certain properties when driven

• “This car rides smoothly”
• “My new truck drives well”

work as a driver

• “He drives a bread truck”
• “She drives for the taxi company in Newark”

move by being propelled by a force

• “The car drove around the corner”

urge forward

• “drive the cows into the barn”

proceed along in a vehicle

• “We drive the turnpike to work”

strike with a driver, as in teeing off

• “drive a golf ball”

hit very hard and straight with the bat swinging more or less vertically

• “drive a ball”

excavate horizontally

• “drive a tunnel”

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”

hunting: search for game

• “drive the forest”

hunting: chase from cover into more open ground

• “drive the game”

the act of applying force to propel something

• “after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off”

a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine

• “a variable speed drive permitted operation through a range of speeds”

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”

a road leading up to a private house

• “they parked in the driveway”

the trait of being highly motivated

• “his drive and energy exhausted his co-workers”

hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver

• “he sliced his drive out of bounds”

the act of driving a herd of animals overland

a journey in a vehicle driven by someone else

• “he took the family for a drive in his new car”

a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire

(computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium

a wide scenic road planted with trees

• “the riverside drive offers many exciting scenic views”

(sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)