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Sounds | dray'v |
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Rhymes | alive, archive, arrive, and 20 more rhymes in ayv at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | The act of applying force to propel something. |
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Examples | "after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off" |
Synonyms | thrust, driving force |
Narrower | firewall; impulse, impulsion, impetus |
Broader | propulsion, actuation |
Verbs | drive |
Meaning | A mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine. |
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Examples | "a variable speed drive permitted operation through a range of speeds" |
Narrower | fusee drive, fusee |
Broader | mechanism |
Verbs | drive |
Meaning | A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end. |
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Examples | "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant" |
Synonyms | campaign, cause, crusade, movement, effort |
Narrower | advertising campaign, ad campaign, ad blitz; anti-war movement; consumerism; campaigning, candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign; ecumenical movement; fund-raising campaign, fund-raising drive, fund-raising effort; feminist movement, feminism, women's liberation movement, women's lib; gay liberation movement, gay lib; lost cause; reform; war; youth movement, youth crusade |
Broader | venture |
Verbs | drive; drive; drive; drive; drive |
Meaning | A road leading up to a private house. |
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Examples | "they parked in the driveway" |
Synonyms | driveway, private road |
Parts | turnaround |
Broader | road, route |
Verbs | drive; drive; drive; drive; drive; drive |
Meaning | The trait of being highly motivated. |
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Examples | "his drive and energy exhausted his co-workers" |
Narrower | action; enterprise, enterprisingness, initiative, go-ahead; ambition, ambitiousness; energy, push, get-up-and-go; aggressiveness |
Broader | trait |
Meaning | Hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver. |
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Examples | "he sliced his drive out of bounds" |
Synonyms | driving |
Broader | golf stroke, golf shot, swing |
Verbs | drive; drive; drive |
Meaning | The act of driving a herd of animals overland. |
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Narrower | cattle drive |
Broader | transportation, transfer, transferral, conveyance |
Meaning | A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else. |
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Examples | "he took the family for a drive in his new car" |
Synonyms | ride |
Narrower | lift; joyride; spin |
Broader | journey, journeying |
Verbs | drive; drive; drive; drive; drive; drive; drive |
Meaning | A physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire. |
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Narrower | hunger, hungriness; thirst; sex drive; hypoxia |
Broader | physiological state, physiological condition |
Verbs | drive |
Meaning | (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium. |
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Category | computer science, computing |
Parts | spindle, mandrel, mandril, arbor |
Narrower | CD drive; CD-ROM drive; disk drive, disc drive, hard drive, Winchester drive; external drive; internal drive; RAM disk |
Broader | device |
Meaning | A wide scenic road planted with trees. |
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Examples | "the riverside drive offers many exciting scenic views" |
Synonyms | parkway |
Broader | road, route |
Verbs | drive; drive; drive; drive; drive; drive; drive |
Meaning | (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash). |
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Category | squash, squash racquets, squash rackets; tennis, lawn tennis |
Narrower | forehand drive; backhand drive |
Broader | return |
Verbs | drive; drive; drive |
Meaning | Operate or control a vehicle. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | They drive the car down the avenue |
Examples | "drive a car or bus"; "Can you drive this four-wheel truck?" |
Category | driving |
Narrower | coach; test drive; drive; tool |
Broader | operate, control |
Similar to | drive, take; drive; drive, ride |
Nouns | drive; driving; drive; driver; drive |
Meaning | Travel or be transported in a vehicle. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
Model | They drive up the hill |
Synonyms | motor |
Category | driving |
Entails | ride |
Broader | travel, go, move, locomote |
Similar to | drive, take |
Nouns | drive; drive; drive |
Meaning | Cause someone or something to move by driving. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP |
Narrower | pull; drive around, chauffeur |
Broader | move, displace |
Similar to | drive, take |
See also | drive out; drive out, drive away, drive off |
Nouns | drive; driver; drive |
Meaning | Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP |
Examples | "He drives me mad" |
Synonyms | force, ram |
Narrower | toe, toenail |
Broader | thrust |
Similar to | drive; drive |
See also | drive in |
Nouns | drive |
Meaning | To compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
Model | They drive him to write the letter |
Examples | "She is driven by her passion" |
Broader | coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, force |
Similar to | force, drive, ram; drive |
Nouns | drive |
Meaning | Cause to move back by force or influence. |
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Pattern | 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 |
Synonyms | repel, repulse, force back, push back, beat back |
Broader | push, force |
Contrary | attract, pull, pull in, draw, draw in |
Similar to | drive |
Nouns | drive; drive |
Meaning | Compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE |
Broader | make |
Similar to | force, drive, ram; drive |
Nouns | drive |
Meaning | Push, propel, or press with force. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Model | The horses drive across the field |
Examples | "Drive a nail into the wall" |
Broader | propel, impel |
Nouns | drive; driving; drive; driver |
Meaning | Cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "drive the ball far out into the field" |
Broader | throw |
Similar to | drive; repel, drive, repulse, force back, push back, beat back |
Nouns | drive; drive |
Meaning | Strive and make an effort to reach a goal. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE |
Synonyms | tug, labor, labour, push |
Narrower | strive, reach, strain |
Broader | fight, struggle |
Similar to | push, bear on |
Nouns | drive |
Meaning | Move into a desired direction of discourse. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Synonyms | get, aim |
Broader | mean, intend |
Nouns | drive; drift; drift |
Meaning | Have certain properties when driven. |
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Pattern | Something ----s Adjective/Noun |
Model | These cars won't drive |
Examples | "My new truck drives well" |
Synonyms | ride |
Similar to | drive; ride |
Nouns | drive; drive; drive |
Meaning | Work as a driver. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "He drives a bread truck"; "She drives for the taxi company in Newark" |
Broader | work, do work |
Similar to | drive |
Nouns | drive; drive; driver; drive |
Meaning | Move by being propelled by a force. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP |
Narrower | pull |
Broader | travel, go, move, locomote; drive |
Nouns | drive; drive; drive |
Meaning | Urge forward. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "drive the cows into the barn" |
Narrower | mush |
Broader | push, force |
Meaning | Proceed along in a vehicle. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "We drive the turnpike to work" |
Synonyms | take |
Category | driving |
Broader | traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across |
Similar to | drive, motor; drive; drive |
Nouns | drive; drive; drive |
Meaning | Strike with a driver, as in teeing off. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "drive a golfball" |
Category | golf, golf game |
Broader | hit |
Similar to | drive; drive |
Nouns | drive, driving; driver; driver |
Meaning | Hit very hard and straight with the bat swinging more or less vertically. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "drive a ball" |
Category | cricket |
Broader | hit |
Similar to | drive |
Nouns | drive |
Meaning | Excavate horizontally. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "drive a tunnel" |
Category | mining, excavation |
Broader | excavate, dig, hollow |
Nouns | drift |
Meaning | Cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Examples | "The amplifier drives the tube"; "steam drives the engines"; "this device drives the disks for the computer" |
Broader | power |
Nouns | driver; drive |
Meaning | Hunting: search for game. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "drive the forest" |
Broader | hunt, run, hunt down, track down |
Similar to | drive |
Meaning | Hunting: chase from cover into more open ground. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "drive the game" |
Broader | hunt, run, hunt down, track down |
Similar to | drive |