Synonym: compel, conduct, force, handle, impel, make, manage, move, operate, ride, run, steer, thrust, work. Similar words: driver, drive out, driveway, drive up, drive home, thrive, derive, arrive at. Meaning: [draɪv] n. 1. the act of applying force to propel something 2. a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine 3. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end 4. a road leading up to a private house 5. the trait of being highly motivated 6. hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver 7. the act of driving a herd of animals overland 8. a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile) 9. a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire 10. (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium 11. a wide scenic road planted with trees 12. (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash). v. 1. operate or control a vehicle 2. travel or be transported in a vehicle 3. cause someone or something to move by driving 4. force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically 5. to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly 6. cause to move back by force or influence 7. compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment 8. push, propel, or press with force 9. cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force 10. strive and make an effort to reach a goal 11. move into a desired direction of discourse 12. have certain properties when driven 13. work as a driver 14. move by being propelled by a force 15. urge forward 16. proceed along in a vehicle 17. strike with a driver, as in teeing off 18. hit very hard and straight with the bat swinging more or less vertically 19. excavate horizontally 20. cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling 21. hunting: search for game 22. hunting: chase from cover into more open ground.
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(31) She walked cautiously up the drive towards the door.
(32) It's a pleasant drive to the coast.
(33) No one is here,drive on,we'll try the next house.
(34) Are you sober enough to drive, Jim?
(35) Insert the disk into the drive slot.
(36) I was asked if / whether I could drive.
(37) I don't want to drive a wedge between the two of you .
(38) Consumption of alcohol impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery.
(39) You'll need to upgrade your hard drive to 4Mb before running this software.
(40) We're going to launch a big recruitment drive in the autumn.
(41) Centrifugal machines are connected to the motor drive directly instead of through a gearbox.
(42) It took him only a few minutes to siphon off the petrol and drive away.
(43) Sometimes they just drive slowly down the lane enjoying the scenery.
(44) You drive round corners too fast - just slow down a bit!
(45) A piston links to a drive shaft by means of a connecting rod.
(46) Let's drive out into the country,it's such a nice day.
(47) If you drive a car all your life, the odds are that you'll have an accident at some point.
(48) From Poiso we make a short diversion to drive to the top of the mountain.
(49) You have to drive slowly on these crooked country roads.
(50) We drive on the left-hand side of the road in this country.
(51) I'm bargaining on your help to drive us to the airport.
(52) We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things.
(53) In the US, you drive on the right hand side of the road, but in Britain the converse applies.
(54) The driver promised to drive me to the railway station, yet he begged off at the last minute.
(55) The corporate giants try to drive down wages in order to make superprofits.
(55) Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
(56) I thought we might go for a drive on Sunday.
(57) They send a service engineer to fix the disk drive.
(58) Drive on for a kilometre; then take a right turn.
(59) It is infinitely easier to drive a car than to repair it.
(60) Snow and ice have left many roads treacherous, and motorists are warned to drive slowly.