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Meaning of drive
noun
- 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.
verb
- 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
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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