1.  drive(n = noun.act) driving force, thrust - the act of applying force to propel something; "after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off"
is a kind of actuation, propulsion
has particulars: firewall, impetus, impulse, impulsion
Derived form verb drive₆

2.  drive(n = noun.artifact) Array - a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine; "a variable speed drive permitted operation through a range of speeds"
is a kind of mechanism
has particulars: fusee, fusee drive
Derived form verb drive₂₀

3.  drive(n = noun.act) campaign, cause, crusade, effort, movement - 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"
is a kind of venture
has particulars: ad blitz, ad campaign, advertising campaign, anti-war movement, charm campaign, consumerism, campaigning, candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign, fund-raising campaign, fund-raising drive, fund-raising effort, feminism, feminist movement, women's lib, women's liberation movement, gay lib, gay liberation movement, lost cause, reform, war, youth crusade, youth movement
Derived forms verb drive₁₁, verb drive₆, verb drive₄, verb drive₇, verb drive₁₀

4.  drive(n = noun.artifact) driveway, private road - a road leading up to a private house; "they parked in the driveway"
is a kind of road, route
has parts: turnaround
Derived forms verb drive₂, verb drive₁₆, verb drive₁, verb drive₁₄, verb drive₁₃, verb drive₁₂

5.  drive(n = noun.attribute) Array - the trait of being highly motivated; "his drive and energy exhausted his co-workers"
is a kind of trait
has particulars: action, enterprise, enterprisingness, go-ahead, initiative, ambition, ambitiousness, energy, get-up-and-go, push, aggressiveness

6.  drive(n = noun.act) driving - hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver; "he sliced his drive out of bounds"
is a kind of golf shot, golf stroke, swing
Derived forms verb drive₁₇, verb drive₉, verb drive₈

7.  drive(n = noun.act) Array - the act of driving a herd of animals overland; Array
is a kind of conveyance, transfer, transferral, transport, transportation
has particulars: cattle drive

8.  drive(n = noun.act) ride - a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile); "he took the family for a drive in his new car"
is a kind of journey, journeying
has particulars: lift, joyride, spin
Derived forms verb drive₂, verb drive₁₆, verb drive₁, verb drive₃, verb drive₁₄, verb drive₁₃, verb drive₁₂

9.  drive(n = noun.state) Array - a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire; Array
is a kind of physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state
has particulars: hunger, hungriness, thirst, thirstiness, sex drive, hypoxia
Derived form verb drive₅

10.  drive(n = noun.artifact) Array - (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium; Array
is a kind of device
has parts: arbor, mandrel, mandril, spindle
has particulars: cd drive, cd-rom drive, disc drive, disk drive, hard drive, winchester drive, external drive, internal drive, ram disk

11.  drive(n = noun.artifact) parkway - a wide scenic road planted with trees; "the riverside drive offers many exciting scenic views"
is a kind of road, route
Derived forms verb drive₂, verb drive₁₆, verb drive₁, verb drive₃, verb drive₁₄, verb drive₁₃, verb drive₁₂

12.  drive(n = noun.act) Array - (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash); Array
is a kind of return
has particulars: forehand drive, backhand drive
Derived forms verb drive₁₈, verb drive₉, verb drive₈

1.  drive(v = verb.motion) Array - operate or control a vehicle; "drive a car or bus"; "Can you drive this four-wheel truck?"
is one way to control, operate
Derived forms noun drive₈, noun drive₁₁, noun drive₄, noun driver₁, noun driving₂
Sample sentences: They drive the car down the avenue

2.  drive(v = verb.motion) motor - travel or be transported in a vehicle; "We drove to the university every morning"; "They motored to London for the theater"
is one way to go, locomote, move, travel
Derived forms noun drive₈, noun drive₁₁, noun drive₄
Sample sentences: They drive up the hill

3.  drive(v = verb.motion) Array - cause someone or something to move by driving; "She drove me to school every day"; "We drove the car to the garage"
is one way to displace, move
Derived forms noun drive₈, noun drive₁₁, noun driver₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP

4.  drive(v = verb.contact) force, ram - force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"
is one way to thrust
Derived form noun drive₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something PP

5.  drive(v = verb.social) Array - to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly; "She is driven by her passion"
is one way to coerce, force, hale, pressure, squeeze
Derived form noun drive₉
Sample sentences: They drive him to write the letter

6.  drive(v = verb.contact) beat back, force back, push back, repel, repulse - cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders"
is one way to force, push
Derived forms noun drive₁, noun drive₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something from somebody; Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP

7.  drive(v = verb.creation) Array - compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment; "She finally drove him to change jobs"
is one way to make
Derived form noun drive₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

8.  drive(v = verb.contact) Array - push, propel, or press with force; "Drive a nail into the wall"
is one way to impel, propel
Derived forms noun drive₁₂, noun drive₆, noun driver₂, noun driving₂
Sample sentences: The horses drive across the field

9.  drive(v = verb.contact) Array - cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force; "drive the ball far out into the field"
is one way to throw
Derived forms noun drive₁₂, noun drive₆
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

10.  drive(v = verb.social) labor, labour, push, tug - 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"
is one way to fight, struggle
Derived form noun drive₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

11.  drive(v = verb.communication) aim, get - move into a desired direction of discourse; "What are you driving at?"
is one way to intend, mean
Derived forms noun drift₆, noun drift₅, noun drive₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s PP

12.  drive(v = verb.stative) ride - have certain properties when driven; "This car rides smoothly"; "My new truck drives well"
Derived forms noun drive₈, noun drive₁₁, noun drive₄
Sample sentences: These cars won't drive

13.  drive(v = verb.social) Array - work as a driver; "He drives a bread truck"; "She drives for the taxi company in Newark"
is one way to do work, work
Derived forms noun drive₈, noun drive₁₁, noun drive₄, noun driver₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something

14.  drive(v = verb.motion) Array - move by being propelled by a force; "The car drove around the corner"
is one way to go, locomote, move, travel, drive
Derived forms noun drive₈, noun drive₁₁, noun drive₄
Sample sentences: Something is ----ing PP

15.  drive(v = verb.motion) Array - urge forward; "drive the cows into the barn"
is one way to force, push
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

16.  drive(v = verb.motion) take - proceed along in a vehicle; "We drive the turnpike to work"
is one way to cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse
Derived forms noun drive₈, noun drive₁₁, noun drive₄
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

17.  drive(v = verb.contact) Array - strike with a driver, as in teeing off; "drive a golf ball"
is one way to hit
Derived forms noun drive₆, noun driver₅, noun driver₃, noun driving₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

18.  drive(v = verb.contact) Array - hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally; "drive a ball"
is one way to hit
Derived form noun drive₁₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

19.  drive(v = verb.contact) Array - excavate horizontally; "drive a tunnel"
is one way to dig, excavate, hollow
Derived form noun drift₇
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

20.  drive(v = verb.consumption) Array - 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"
is one way to power
Derived forms noun drive₂, noun driver₄
Sample sentences: Something ----s something

21.  drive(v = verb.competition) Array - hunting: search for game; "drive the forest"
is one way to hunt, hunt down, run, track down
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

22.  drive(v = verb.competition) Array - hunting: chase from cover into more open ground; "drive the game"
is one way to hunt, hunt down, run, track down
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

drive, v. & n.
--v. (past drove; past part. driven)
1 tr. (usu. foll. by away, back, in, out, to, etc.) urge in some direction, esp. forcibly (drove back the wolves).
2 tr. a (usu. foll. by to + infin., or to + verbal noun) compel or constrain forcibly (was driven to complain; drove her to stealing). b (often foll. by to) force into a specified state (drove him mad; driven to despair). c (often refl.) urge to overwork (drives himself too hard).
3 a tr. (also absol.) operate and direct the course of (a vehicle, a locomotive, etc.) (drove a sports car; drives well). b tr. & intr. convey or be conveyed in a vehicle (drove them to the station; drove to the station in a bus) (cf. RIDE). c tr. (also absol.) be licensed or competent to drive (a vehicle) (does he drive?). d tr. (also absol.) urge and direct the course of (an animal drawing a vehicle or plough).
4 tr. (of wind, water, etc.) carry along, propel, send, or cause to go in some direction (pure as the driven snow).
5 tr. a (often foll. by into) force (a stake, nail, etc.) into place by blows (drove the nail home). b Mining bore (a tunnel, horizontal cavity, etc.).
6 tr. effect or conclude forcibly (drove a hard bargain; drove his point home).
7 tr. (of steam or other power) set or keep (machinery) going.
8 intr. (usu. foll. by at) work hard; dash, rush, or hasten.
9 tr. Cricket & Tennis hit (the ball) hard from a freely swung bat or racket.
10 tr. (often absol.) Golf strike (a ball) with a driver from the tee.
11 tr. chase or frighten (game, wild beasts, an enemy in warfare, etc.) from a large area to a smaller, to kill or capture; corner.
12 tr. Brit. hold a drift in (a forest etc.) (see DRIFT n. 9).
--n.
1 an act of driving in a motor vehicle; a journey or excursion in such a vehicle (went for a pleasant drive; lives an hour's drive from us).
2 a the capacity for achievement; motivation and energy (lacks the drive needed to succeed). b Psychol. an inner urge to attain a goal or satisfy a need (unconscious emotional drives).
3 a a usu. landscaped street or road. b a usu. private road through a garden or park to a house.
4 Cricket, Golf, & Tennis a driving stroke of the bat etc.
5 an organized effort to achieve a usu. charitable purpose (a famine-relief drive).
6 a the transmission of power to machinery, the wheels of a motor vehicle, etc. (belt drive; front-wheel drive). b the position of a steering-wheel in a motor vehicle (left-hand drive). c Computing = disk drive (see DISC).
7 Brit. an organized competition, for many players, of whist, bingo, etc.
8 an act of driving game or an enemy.
9 Austral. & NZ a line of partly cut trees on a hillside felled when the top one topples on the others.

Idiom:
drive at seek, intend, or mean (what is he driving at?). drive-in attrib.adj. (of a bank, cinema, etc.) able to be used while sitting in one's car.
--n. such a bank, cinema, etc. drive-on (of a ship) on to which motor vehicles may be driven. drive out take the place of; oust; exorcize, cast out (evil spirits etc.). driving-licence a licence permitting a person to drive a motor vehicle. driving rain an excessive windblown downpour. driving-range Golf an area for practising drives. driving test an official test of a motorist's competence which must be passed to obtain a driving licence. driving-wheel
1 the large wheel of a locomotive.
2 a wheel communicating motive power in machinery. let drive aim a blow or missile.

Derivative:
drivable adj.

Etymology:
OE drifan f. Gmc

N  haste, urgency, despatch, dispatch, acceleration, spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash, speed, velocity, precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness, impetuosity, brusquerie, hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter, hasty, hurried, brusque, scrambling, cursory, precipitate, headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded, feverish, fussy, pushing, in haste, in a hurry, in hot haste, in all haste, breathless, pressed for time, hard pressed, urgent, with haste, with all haste, with breathless speed, in haste, apace, amain, all at once, at short notice, immediately, posthaste, by cable, by express, by telegraph, by forced marches, hastily, precipitately, helter-skelter, hurry-skurry, holus-bolus, slapdash, slap-bang, full-tilt, full drive, heels over head, head and shoulders, headlong, a corps perdu, by fits and starts, by spurts, hop skip and jump, sauve qui peut, every man for himself, devil take the hindmost, no time to be lost, no sooner said than done, a word and a blow, haste makes waste, maggiore fretta minore atto, ohne Hast aber ohne Rast stand not upon the order, swift, swift, you dragons of the night.

N  assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.

VB  direct, manage, govern, conduct, order, prescribe, cut out work for, bead, lead, lead the way, show the way, take the lead, lead on, regulate, guide, steer, pilot, tackle, take the helm, be at the helm, have the reins, handle the reins, hold the reins, take the reins, drive, tool, superintend, supervise, overlook, control, keep in order, look after, see to, legislate for, administer, ministrate, matronize, have the care of, have the charge of, be in charge of, have charge of, take the direction, boss, boss one around, pull the strings, pull the wires, rule, have the direction, hold office, hold the portfolio, preside, preside at the board, take the chair, occupy the chair, be in the chair, pull the stroke oar, tend towards, bend towards, point towards, conduct to, go to, point to, point at, bend, trend, verge, incline, dip, determine, steer for, steer towards, make for, make towards, aim at, level at, take aim, keep a course, hold a course, be bound for, bend one's steps towards, direct one's course, steer one's course, bend one's course, shape one's course, align one's march, allign one's march, to straight, go straight to the point, march on, march on a point, ascertain one's direction, s'orienter, see which way the wind blows, box the compass, take the air line.

VB  compel, force, make, drive, coerce, constrain, enforce, necessitate, oblige, force upon, press, cram down the throat, thrust down the throat, force down the throat, say it must be done, make a point of, insist upon, take no denial, put down, dragoon, extort, wring from, squeeze, put on the squeeze, put on the screws, turn on the screw, drag into, bind, bind over, pin down, tie down, require, tax, put in force, commandeer, restrain.

N  journey, travel, traveling, wayfaring, campaigning, journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation, noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism, outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt, equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie, basophobia, roving, vagrancy, pererration, marching and countermarching, nomadism, vagabondism, vagabondage, hoboism, gadding, flit, flitting, migration, emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration, wanderlust, plan, itinerary, guide, handbook, guidebook, road book, Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map, procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column, vehicle, automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler, depot, railway station, station, traveling, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic, circumforanean, circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant, locomotive, wayfaring, wayworn, travel-stained, on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare, by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu, en route, Int, come along!.

VB  travel, journey, course, take a journey, go a journey, take a walk, go out for walk, have a run, take the air, flit, take wing, migrate, emigrate, trek, rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse, scour the country, traverse the country, peragrate, circumambulate, perambulate, nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle, gad, gad about, expatiate, walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare, promenade, trudge, tramp, stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle, paddle, tread a path, take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk, frisk, caracoler, caracole, gallop, embark, board, set out, hit the road, get going, get underway, peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on, stir one's stumps, bend one's steps, bend one's course, make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way, slide, glide, coast, skim, skate, march in procession, file on, defile, go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.

VB  flash on the mind, say what comes uppermost, improvise, extemporize, give an impetus, impel, push, start, give a start to, set going, drive, urge, boom, thrust, prod, foin, cant, elbow, shoulder, jostle, justle, hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter, run against, bump against, butt against, knock one's head against, run one's head against, impinge, boost, bunt, carom, clip y, fan, fan out, jab, plug, strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash, punch, thwack, whack, hit hard, strike hard, swap, batter, dowse, baste, pelt, patter, buffet, belabor, fetch one a blow, poke at, pink, lunge, yerk, kick, calcitrate, butt, strike at, whip, come into a collision, enter into collision, collide, sideswipe, foul, fall foul of, run foul of, telescope, throw.

VB  propel, project, throw, fling, cast, pitch, chuck, toss, jerk, heave, shy, hurl, flirt, fillip, dart, lance, tilt, ejaculate, jaculate, fulminate, bolt, drive, sling, pitchfork, send, send off, let off, fire off, discharge, shoot, launch, release, send forth, let fly, put in orbit, send into orbit, launch into orbit dash, put in motion, set in motion, set agoing, start, give a start, give an impulse to, impel, trundle, expel, carry one off one's legs, put to flight.

automatic drive, backhand drive, cattle drive, cd drive, cd-rom drive, continental drive, disc drive, disk drive, drive around, drive away, drive back, drive home, drive in, drive line, drive line system, drive off, drive on, drive out, drive up, drive up the wall, external drive, fluid drive, forehand drive, four-wheel drive, fund-raising drive, fusee drive, hard drive, internal drive, let drive, line drive, pile drive, sex drive, tape drive, test drive, whist drive, winchester drive