drive
/draiv/
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
Noun:
- A journey in a vehicle: An act of traveling in a car or other vehicle, often for pleasure.
- A private road: A short road leading from a public road to a house or garage.
- Determination and energy: A strong, motivating force of energy, ambition, or determination in a person.
- An organized effort: A strong, organized effort by a group of people to achieve a particular purpose.
- A basic need or desire: A powerful, instinctual need or desire, such as hunger or ambition.
- The transmission of power: A mechanism in a machine that transmits power or motion.
- A hard, forceful hit: In sports like golf or tennis, a long, powerful shot.
Verb:
- To operate a vehicle: To control and steer the movement of a car, bus, truck, etc.
- To transport in a vehicle: To take someone or something somewhere in a vehicle you are operating.
- To force to move: To force people or animals to move in a particular direction.
- To provide power: To supply the power that makes a machine work.
- To force into a state: To force someone into a particular, often negative, state or condition.
- To hit forcefully: To hit a ball with great force in sports.
- To have a goal: To work very hard to achieve something; to strive.
Usage Examples
Noun:
- We went for a long drive in the countryside.
- Please park your car in the drive.
- She has the drive and passion to succeed.
- The company launched a fundraising drive.
- Hunger is a basic human drive.
Verb:
- Can you drive a manual car?
- I'll drive you to the airport tomorrow.
- The shepherd drove the sheep into the pen.
- This turbine drives the generator.
- The constant noise is driving me crazy.
- He drove the ball straight down the fairway.
Advanced Usage
- "Drive at": To intend to say; to mean.
- I don't understand what you're driving at.
- "Drive a hard bargain": To negotiate firmly to get a favorable deal.
- Be careful when negotiating with her; she drives a hard bargain.
- "Drive home a point": To emphasize an idea so it is fully understood.
- He used statistics to drive home his point about safety.
Variants and Related Words
- Driver (n): A person who drives a vehicle.
- Driven (adj): Very motivated and determined to succeed.
- Driveway (n): A short private road from the street to a house.
- Driving (adj/gerund): Having a powerful force or effect; the action of operating a vehicle. (e.g., , , ).
Synonyms
- Noun (Determination): Ambition, motivation, initiative.
- Verb (Operate): Steer, pilot, operate.
- Verb (Force): Compel, push, propel.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Drive away: To force someone or something to leave; to repel.
- The loud music drove away the customers.
- Drive off: To leave in a vehicle; to repel an attack.
- She drove off without saying goodbye.
- Drive out: To force someone to leave a place.
- The new policy drove out many small businesses.
- Drive up/down: To cause something (like prices) to increase or decrease.
- High demand drives up the cost of housing.
Related Idioms
- In the driver's seat: In control of a situation.
- With the new contract, she is firmly in the driver's seat.
- Backseat driver: A passenger who gives unwanted advice to the driver; someone who criticizes without responsibility.
- Stop being a backseat driver and let me concentrate.
Noun
- (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
- a wide scenic road planted with trees
- the riverside drive offers many exciting scenic views
- (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
- a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
- a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- he took the family for a drive in his new car
- the act of driving a herd of animals overland
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
- he sliced his drive out of bounds
- the trait of being highly motivated
- his drive and energy exhausted his co-workers
- a road leading up to a private house
- they parked in the driveway
- 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 mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
- a variable speed drive permitted operation through a range of speeds
- the act of applying force to propel something
- after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off
Verb
- hunting: chase from cover into more open ground
- drive the game
- hunting: search for game
- drive the forest
- 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
- excavate horizontally
- drive a tunnel
- hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
- drive a ball
- strike with a driver, as in teeing off
- drive a golf ball
- proceed along in a vehicle
- We drive the turnpike to work
- urge forward
- drive the cows into the barn
- move by being propelled by a force
- The car drove around the corner
- work as a driver
- He drives a bread truck
- She drives for the taxi company in Newark
- have certain properties when driven
- This car rides smoothly
- My new truck drives well
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- What are you driving at?
- 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
- cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
- drive the ball far out into the field
- push, propel, or press with force
- Drive a nail into the wall
- compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment
- She finally drove him to change jobs
- cause to move back by force or influence
- repel the enemy
- push back the urge to smoke
- beat back the invaders
- to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
- She is driven by her passion
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- She rammed her mind into focus
- He drives me mad
- cause someone or something to move by driving
- She drove me to school every day
- We drove the car to the garage
- travel or be transported in a vehicle
- We drove to the university every morning
- They motored to London for the theater
- operate or control a vehicle
- drive a car or bus
- Can you drive this four-wheel truck?