meaning of drive
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
6. To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
7. To pass away; -- said of time.
8. To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.
9. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.
10. 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.
11. To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at.
12. To distrain for rent.
13. Driven.
14. The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.
15. A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
16. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp. , a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
17. In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.
18. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
19. the act of applying force to propel something; "after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut
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