drive

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).

   “The bridges weren't strong enough to drive (campers) over.”

2. fiil To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.

   “I drive to work every day.”

3. fiil To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.

   “My cousin drove me to the airport.”

4. fiil To operate (an aircraft); to pilot.

   “drive a 737”

5. fiil To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.

   “There is a litter ready; lay him in’t And drive towards Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet Both welcome and protection.”

6. fiil (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.

   “to drive twenty thousand head of cattle from Texas to the Kansas railheads; to drive sheep out of a field”

7. fiil (especially animals) To cause to flee out of.

   “The hunting dog drove the birds out of the tall grass.”

8. fiil To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.

   “You drive nails into wood with any hammer; it's not as strenuous as driving a tunnel through the rock.”

9. fiil To cause (a mechanism) to operate.

   “The pistons drive the crankshaft.”

10. fiil To hit the ball with a drive.
11. fiil To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
12. fiil To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.

    “One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail; Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.”

13. fiil To provide an impetus for a change in one's situation or state of mind.

    “My husband's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction.”

14. fiil To motivate; to provide an incentive for.

    “What drives a person to run a marathon?”

15. fiil To compel, exert pressure, coerce (to do something).

    “Their debts finally drove them to sell the business.”

16. fiil To cause to become.

    “This constant complaining is going to drive me insane.”

17. fiil To motivate through the application or demonstration of force; to impel or urge onward in such a way.

    “Frothing at the mouth and threatening expulsion, Coach relentlessly drove the team to more laps of the pitch.”

18. fiil To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.

    “The negotiations were driven to completion minutes before the final deadline.”

19. fiil To move forcefully.

    “[…] Unequal match’d, Pyrrhus at Priam drives, in rage strikes wide;”

20. fiil To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).

    “[…] as a duck for life that dives, So up and down the poor ship drives:”

21. isim Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.

    “Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.”

22. isim Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; (especially) a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

    “The Murdstonian drive in business.”

23. isim An act of driving game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.

    “Are you all ready?’ he cried, and set off towards the dead ash where the drive would begin.”

24. isim An act of driving livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
25. isim A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take an objective.

    “Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.”

26. isim A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.

    “steam drive, nuclear drive, chain drive, rear-wheel drive, all-wheel drive, front-wheel drive”

27. isim The location of the steering wheel used to control a vehicle.

    “left-hand drive, right-hand drive”

28. isim The gear into which one usually shifts an automatic transmission when one is driving a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol D on a shifter's labeling.)

    “Normally you should be in drive, although you can select a lower gear such as 2 or 1 for certain conditions, such as prolonged downhill stretches.”

29. isim An act of piloting or riding within a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).

    “The drive this morning was awful due to snow and ice.”

30. isim A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).

    “It was a long drive to Santa Fe.”