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1. Drive
   A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
2. Drive
   (Computers) a device for reading or writing data from or to a data storage medium, as a disk drive, a tape drive, a CD drive, etc.
3. Drive
   A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
4. Drive
   a private road; a driveway.
5. Drive
   (Golf) A stroke from the tee, generally a full shot made with a driver; also, the distance covered by such a stroke.
6. Drive
   a strong psychological motivation to perform some activity.
7. Drive
   drīv Driven.
8. Drive
   In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.
9. Drive
   In various games, as tennis, cricket, etc., the act of player who drives the ball; the stroke or blow; the flight of the ball, etc., so driven.
10. Drive
    Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, etc., to propel (the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible throw.
11. Drive
    The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.
12. Drive
    (Football) the period during which one team sustains movement of the ball toward the opponent's goal without losing possession of the ball; as, a long drive downfield.
13. Drive
    To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven. "The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn.", "The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers."
14. Drive
    To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. "The trade of life can not be driven without partners."
15. Drive
    To clear, by forcing away what is contained. "To drive the country, force the swains away."
16. Drive
    (Mining) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
17. Drive
    To distrain for rent.
18. Drive
    To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door.
19. Drive
    to go from one place to another in a vehicle, serving as the operator of the vehicle; to drive{9} a vehicle from one location to another.
20. Drive
    (Golf) To make a drive, or stroke from the tee.
21. Drive
    to operate (a vehicle) while it is on motion, by manipulating the controls, such as the steering, propulsion, and braking mechanisms.
22. Drive
    To pass away; -- said of time.
23. Drive
    To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at. "Let them therefore declare what carnal or secular interest he drove at."
24. Drive
    To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like. "Enough to drive one mad.", "He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his."
25. Drive
    Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business. "The Murdstonian drive in business."

1. drive
   To compel or urge to move; impel or constrain to go in some direction or manner. To compel (an animal or a human being, and, by figurative extension, inanimate things), by commands, cries, or threats, or by gestures, blows, or other physical means, to move in a desired direction: as, to drive a flock of sheep; to drive slaves; to drive away a fear.
2. drive
   Specifically— To impel to motion and quicken: applied to draft-animals, as a horse or an ox; also, by extension, to the vehicle drawn, and in recent figurative use to a locomotive or other engine.
3. drive
   To chase (game); hunt; especially, to chase (game) into a snare or corral, or toward a hunter.
4. drive
   To cause to move by the direct application of a physical force: as, clouds or a ship driven by the wind; to drive a nail with a hammer.
5. drive
   In base-ball, also in lawn-tennis, etc., to knock or throw (the ball) very swiftly.
6. drive
   To cause to pass; pass away:said of time.
7. drive
   To compel or incite to action of any kind;lead or impel to a certain course or result:used in a variety of figurative senses: as, the smoke drove the firemen from the building;despair drove him to suicide; oppression drove them into open rebellion.
8. drive
   To urge; press; carry forward or effect by urgency or the presentation of motives: as, to drive home an argument; to drive business; to drive a bargain.
9. drive
   To force, in general; push vigorously, in a figurative sense.
10. drive
    To convey in a carriage or other vehicle:as, to drive a friend in tho park.
11. drive
    To overrun and devastate; harry.
12. drive
    In mining, to excavate in a nearly horizontal direction. See drift and level.
13. drive
    To endure.
14. drive
    Synonyms and See thrust.
15. drive
    To go along before an impelling force; be impelled; be moved by any physical force or agent: as, the ship drove before the wind.
16. drive
    To act or move with force, violence, or impetuosity: as, the storm drove against the house; he drove at the work night and day.
17. drive
    To ride on horseback.
18. drive
    To be conveyed in a carriage; travel in a vehicle drawn by one or more horses or other animals.
19. drive
    To aim or tend; make an effort to reach or obtain: with at: as, the end he was driving at.
20. drive
    To aim a blow; strike with force: with at.
21. drive
    To work with energy; labor actively: often with away.
22. drive
    To take the property of another; distrain for rent; drive cattle into a pound as security for rent.
23. (n) drive
    The act or result of driving; something done by means of driving. An urging or impelling forward of an assemblage of animals, of a collection of logs in a stream, etc.: as, a drive of cattle on the plains for the purpose of branding or sorting them; a drive of game for the convenience of sportsmen.
24. (n) drive
    A strong or sweeping blow or impulsion
25. (n) drive
    In type-founding, the deep impress of the steel punch or model-letter in a bar of copper. Also known as a strike or unjustified matrix. It is usually made by a quick and strong blow in cold-rolled copper. The drive, when fitted to the mold, is called a justified matrix.
26. (n) drive
    In base-ball, also in lawn-tennis, etc., the knocking or throwing of a ball very swiftly.
27. (n) drive
    Conveyance in a vehicle; an excursion or airing in a carriage: as, to take a drive.
28. (n) drive
    That which is driven; cattle, game, etc., driven together or alone.
29. (n) drive
    The state of being driven or hurried; extreme haste or pressure: as, a drive of business.
30. (n) drive
    A course upon which carriages are driven; a road prepared for driving: as, the drives in a park.
31. (n) drive
    The course or country over which game is driven.
32. (n) drive
    The selling of a particular kind of goods, as gloves, below the usual price, in order to draw customers.
33. (n) drive
    A jest or satirical remark directed at a person or thing.
34. (n) drive
    A driving mechanism, as of a motor-cycle or motor-carriage: used with some qualifying term, as a flexible drive, a gear-drive, etc.
35. (n) drive
    In lumbering: A body of logs or timbers in process of being floated from the forest to the mill or shipping-point.
36. (n) drive
    That part of logging which consists in floating logs or timbers.

1. (v.t) Drive
   drīv to force along: to hurry one on: to guide, as horses drawing a carriage: to convey or carry in a carriage: to force in, as nails with a hammer: to push briskly: to urge, as a point of argument, a bargain, &c.: to compel: to send away with force, as a ball in cricket, golf, tennis: to chase game towards sportsmen
2. (v.i) Drive
   to press forward with violence: to be forced along, as a ship before the wind: to go in a carriage: to tend towards a point: to strike at with a sword, the fist, &c.:—pr.p. drīv′ing; pa.t. drōve; pa.p. driv′en
3. (n) Drive
   an excursion in a carriage: a road for driving on: the propelling of a ball in cricket, &c.: the chasing of game towards the shooters, or the sport so obtained, or the ground over which the game is driven: urgent pressure: pushing the sale of a special article by reduction of prices

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