Definitions for drives
  • Drive (v. t.) - To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.
  • Drive (v. t.) - To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door.
  • Drive (v. t.) - 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.
  • Drive (v. t.) - To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
  • Drive (v. t.) - To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
  • Drive (v. t.) - To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
  • Drive (v. t.) - To pass away; -- said of time.
  • Drive (v. i.) - To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.
  • Drive (v. i.) - To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.
  • Drive (v. i.) - 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.
  • Drive (v. i.) - To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at.
  • Drive (v. i.) - To distrain for rent.
  • Drive (p. p.) - Driven.
  • Drive (n.) - The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.
  • Drive (n.) - A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
  • Drive (n.) - Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
  • Drive (n.) - In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.
  • Drive (n.) - A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
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  • Driving (a.) - Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm.
  • Driving (a.) - Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft.
  • Driving (n.) - The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.
  • Driving (n.) - Tendency; drift.
  • Driving (p. pr. & vb. n.) - of Drive
  • Drivingly - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
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