Meaning of drive | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To operate a vehicle:
   ergative, transitive
2. To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
   ergative, transitive
3. To mean to do or say: I don't understand what you're driving at.
4. To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
   intransitive
5. A golfer’s first stroke from the tee.
6. To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
   transitive
7. a person who drives a car etc. a bus-driver. bestuurder سائِق шофъор condutor řidič der Fahrer chauffør οδηγόςconductor juht راننده kuljettaja conducteur/-trice נהג चालक, गाड़ीवान, कोचवान vozač (gépkocsi)vezető sopir ökumaður, bílstjóri conducente, autista 運転手 운전사 vairuotojas šoferis; (automašīnas) vadītājs pemandu bestuurdersjåfør, vognførerkierowca چلوونكى condutor şofer водитель vodič voznik vozač chaufför, förare คนขับรถ sürücü, şoför 駕駛員，司機 шофер; водій گاڑی وغیرہ چلانے والا شخص người lá...
   etc
8. To operate (an aircraft); to pilot.
   slang, transitive
9. (American) a driving licence. bestuurderslisensie رُخْصَةُ السِّياقَه шофъорска книжка carteira de motorista řidičský průkaz der Führerschein, díe Fahrerlaubnis kørekort δίπλωμα οδήγησης permiso de conducir, carnet de conducir juhiluba گواهینامه رانندگی ajokortti permis de conduire רִשיוֹן נְהִיגָה ड्राइविंग लाइसेंस vozačeva dozvola vezetői engedély SIM patente di guida 運転免許証 운전면허증 vairuotojo paþymëjimas autovadītāja apliecība lesen pemandu rijbewijsførerkortprawo jazdy د ډرايورى يا چلولو لاي...
   American
10. To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
    intransitive, transitive
11. (of a cinema, café etc, especially in North America) catering for people who remain in their cars while watching a film, eating etc. a drive-in movie. inry مع عِنايَة ٍ بالسَّيّارَه драйв ин drive-in s obsluhou do auta drive-in drive-in κινηματογράφος για επιβάτες αυτοκινήτων autocine, autobanco... drive-in, sissesõidu- بانک یا سینما و غیره که مشتریان بدون پیاده شدن از ماشین کا خود را انجام می دهند drive-in restauvolant דְרָיִיב-אִין कार में बैठे-बैठे सिनेमा देखना gledati fim iz auta, naručiv...
    especially
12. To compel to move:
    transitive
13. (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
    transitive
14. that one may drive through (and do something without getting out of the car). a drivethrough bank/restaurant/zoo. deur ry دون الخُروج من السَّيّارَه без слизане от колата drive-through zařízení pro motoristy s obsluhou do auta (banka, restaurace apod.) Durchfahrts- betjening ved/fra bilen κατάστημα στο οποίο μπορεί κανείς να εξυπηρετηθεί χωρίς να βγει από το όχημά του autobanco, autorrestaurante, autozoo sissesõidu- مکان هایی که مشتری بدون پیاده شدن از ماشین کار خود را انجام می دهد palvelu au...
15. (especially animals) To cause to flee out of.
    transitive
16. To cause to move by the application of physical force:
    transitive
17. To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
    transitive
18. a licence for driving a road vehicle. lisensie رُخْصَةُ سَيّارَه шофъорска книжка carteira de motorista řidičský průkaz der Führerschein, díe Fahrerlaubnis kørekort δίπλωμα οδήγησης permiso de conducir, carnet de conducir juhiluba گواهینامه پایه یک ajokortti permis de conduire רִשיוֹן נְהִיגָה किसी सड़क वाहन चलाने का लाइसेंस vozačka dozvola vezetői engedély SIM patente di guida 運転免許証 운전 면허증 vairuotojo pažymėjimas autovadītāja apliecība lesen memandu rijbewijsførerkortprawo jazdy د ډرايورى لاي...
19. To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
    transitive
20. to be trying to say or suggest. I don't know what you're driving at. op afstuur يَقْصُدُ، يَرْمي إلى целя insinuar mířit abzielen auf antyde υπονοώinsinuar, querer decir öelda tahtma سعی در گفتن چیزی داشتن vihjata vouloir en venir לְהָצִיע कहने या बताने की कोशिश करना smjerati, ciljati céloz vmire menyarankan eiga við, meina mirare a, voler arrivare a ～を意図している 주장하다 sukti, kreipti kalbą mērķēt (uz kaut ko sarunā) menyarankan doelen opsikte til, mene medzmierzać د يو شې د ويلو هڅه درلودل insinua...
21. To hit the ball with a drive.
    intransitive
22. To push, propel, or press onward forcibly; urge forward: drove the horses into the corral.
23. To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
    transitive
24. To repulse or put to flight by force or influence: drove the attackers away; drove out any thought of failure.
25. To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
    transitive
26. To compel to undergo a non-physical change:
    transitive
27. To provide an impetus for a change in one's situation or state of mind.
    transitive
28. To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
    transitive
29. To compel, exert pressure, coerce (to do something).
    transitive
30. To cause to become.
    transitive
31. To motivate through the application or demonstration of force; to impel or urge onward in such a way.
    transitive
32. To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
    transitive
33. To move forcefully.
    intransitive
34. To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
    intransitive
35. To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
    transitive
36. To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
    transitive
37. To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
38. To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
39. To distrain for rent.
    obsolete
40. To be the dominant party in a sex act.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“I drive to work every day.”

“My cousin drove me to the airport.”

“drive a 737”

“There is a litter ready; lay him in’t And drive towards Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet Both welcome and protection.”

“We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.”

“to drive twenty thousand head of cattle from Texas to the Kansas railheads; to drive sheep out of a field”

“The hunting dog drove the birds out of the tall grass.”

“We'll drive the enemy from these lands once and for all.”

“You drive nails into wood with any hammer; it's not as strenuous as driving a tunnel through the rock.”

“If you drive yourself so much, you'll end up having a breakdown.”

“The pistons drive the crankshaft.”

“One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail; Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.”

“My husband's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction.”

“What drives a person to run a marathon?”

“Their debts finally drove them to sell the business.”

“He driuen to dismount, threatned, if I did not the like, to doo as much for my horse, as Fortune had done for his.”

The New Arcadia

“But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you, till mischief and despair Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves!”

“This constant complaining is going to drive me insane.”

“You are driving me crazy!”

“1855, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Maud, XXV, 1. in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p. 90, And then to hear a dead man chatter Is enough to drive one mad.”

“One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.”

“Frothing at the mouth and threatening expulsion, Coach relentlessly drove the team to more laps of the pitch.”

“[…] Demosthenes desired them first to put in at Pylos and not to proceed on their voyage until they had done what he wanted. They objected, but it so happened that a storm came on and drove them into Pylos.”

“The negotiations were driven to completion minutes before the final deadline.”

“And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR, drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts...”

“[…] Unequal match’d, Pyrrhus at Priam drives, in rage strikes wide;”

“Thus while the Pious Prince his Fate bewails, Fierce Boreas drove against his flying Sails. And rent the Sheets […]”

“Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb.”

“Charles, ill in body and mind, and glad to escape from his enemies under cover of the night and a driving tempest, was at length compelled to sign the treaty of Passau […]”

“It would seem they were regarding this new antagonist with astonishment. To their intelligence, it may be, the giant was even such another as themselves. The Thunder Child fired no gun, but simply drove full speed towards them. It was probably her not firing that enabled her to get so near the enemy as she did. They did not know what to make of her. One shell, and they would have sent her to the bottom forthwith with the Heat-Ray.”

“The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny.”

“[…] as a duck for life that dives, So up and down the poor ship drives:”

“[…] the Captain […] order’d the Cable to be cut, and let the Ship drive nearer the Land, where she soon beat to pieces:”

“You know the Trade of Life can’t be driven without Partners; there is a reciprocal Dependance between the Greatest and the Least.”

“We come not with design of wastful Prey, To drive the Country, force the Swains away:”

“1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures If the miners find no ore, they drive or cut a gallery from the pit a short distance at right angles to the direction of the lodes found”

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