different between bang vs drive

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ?(?)/
• Rhymes: -æ?
• Homophone: bhang

Etymology 1

From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian, bangan or Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bang- (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?en- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish bånga (“to hammer”), Danish banke (“to beat”), bengel (“club”), Low German bangen, bangeln (“to strike, beat”), West Frisian bingel, bongel, Dutch bengel (“bell; rascal”), German Bengel (“club”), bungen (“to throb, pulsate”).

In the sense of a fringe of hair, from bang off.

Alternative forms

• bangue (obsolete)

Noun

bang (plural bangs)

1. A sudden percussive noise.

2. A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
3. An explosion.
4. (US, archaic) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle with such hair cut straight across.
   • 1880, William Dean Howells, The Undiscovered Country

     his hair cut in front like a young lady's bang
5. (chiefly US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.

6. (mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
7. (vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
8. An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
9. (slang, mining) An explosive product.

10. (slang) An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug). [from 20th c.]
    • 1952, William S. Burroughs, in Harris (ed.), Letters 1945–59, Penguin 2009, p. 101:

      As for myself, I take a bang now and then—I know plenty of croakers—but I really couldn't keep up a habit without a lot of running around and bother.

11. (slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
12. (Ireland, colloquial, slang) strong smell (of)

13. (slang) A thrill.
    • 1993, Douglas Woolf, Sandra Braman, Hypocritic Days & Other Tales (page 40)

      "We all know you give great parties, Mr. Lippincott."
      "It gives me a bang, even a bigger bang than this," Mr. Lippincott said, indicating his drink and then finishing it.

    • 2000, James Hadley Chase, Make the Corpse Walk (page 31)

      Yes, he got a bang out of cheating Rollo.

Synonyms

• strike, blow
• explosion
• (the symbol !): exclamation point, exclamation mark

Antonyms

• (abrupt left turn): hang

Translations

Verb

bang (third-person singular simple present bangs, present participle banging, simple past and past participle banged)

1. (intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To hit hard.
3. (slang, transitive, intransitive, vulgar) To engage in sexual intercourse.

   Synonyms: nail, do it, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate, Thesaurus:copulate with
4. (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.

5. (transitive) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
   • c. 1883, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Becomin a Zuni

     His hair banged even with his eyebrows.

6. (transitive, slang, drugs) To inject intravenously.

   Do you smoke meth? No, I bang it.

Conjugation

Translations

Adverb

bang (comparative more bang, superlative most bang)

1. Right, directly.

   The passenger door was bang against the garage wall.
2. Precisely.

   He arrived bang on time.

3. With a sudden impact.

   Distracted, he ran bang into the opening door.

Interjection

bang

1. A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.

   He pointed his finger at her like a gun and said, "Bang!"

Translations

Derived terms

• (verb): banger, gangbang
• (noun): bang for the buck, big bang, go out with a bang
• (adverb): bang on, bang out of order, bang to rights, bang up / bang-up
• (adjective): bang-bang

Etymology 2

Noun

bang (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of bhang (“cannabis”)

See also

• PC bang

Anagrams

• BGAN

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bang (“afraid”), from Middle Dutch banghe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/

Adjective

bang (attributive bange, comparative banger, superlative bangste)

1. afraid

Bislama

Etymology

From English bank.

Noun

bang

1. A bank

Cebuano

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

bang

1. the sound of an explosion or a gun

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bang.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??/
• Hyphenation: bang
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch banghe, from be- + anghe, the latter is an adverbial form of enge (“narrow, confined”), compare angst (“fear”).

Adjective

bang (comparative banger, superlative bangst)

1. scared, frightened
2. fearful
3. anxious

Usage notes

The adjective is accompanied with zijn (to be); for example: Ik ben bang "I am afraid". Usage with hebben (to have) also occurs - for example: Ik heb bang - but is generally proscribed as a contamination with ik heb angst.

Inflection

Synonyms

• bevreesd, angstig, schrikachtig, vruchtig, verschrikt

Derived terms

• bangbroek
• bangelijk
• bangerik
• bangmakerij
• doodsbang

Related terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bang

See also

• schrikken

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

bang m (plural bangen, diminutive bangetje n)

1. A sharp, percussive sound, like the sound of an explosion or gun; bang

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???/

Interjection

bang

1. bang

Noun

bang m (plural bangs)

1. sonic boom
2. bong (marijuana pipe)

German

Alternative forms

• bange (both are roughly equally common)

Etymology

Originally an adverb, cf. mir ist bange. From Middle High German bange, an enlargement (with the prefix be-) of ange, Old High German ango (“narrowly, anxiously”), an adverb of engi (“narrow”), from Proto-Germanic *anguz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Adjective

bang (comparative banger or bänger, superlative am bangsten or am bängsten)

1. scared, frightened, afraid, fearful

   Synonym: ängstlich

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pau?k/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Rhymes: -au?k
• Rhymes: -a??

Noun

bang n (genitive singular bangs, no plural)

1. pounding, hammering, banging

Declension

Related terms

• banga

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/
• Hyphenation: bang
• Homophone: bank

Etymology 1

Clipping of abang (“brother”).

Noun

bang

1. Title or term of address for brother

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic

Noun

bang

1. A sudden percussive noise.

Etymology 3

From Malay bang, from Persian ????? (bâng, “voice, sound, noise, cry”), from Middle Persian ????????????????? (??ng /v?ng/).

Noun

bang (first-person possessive bangku, second-person possessive bangmu, third-person possessive bangnya)

1. (obsolete) adhan

   Synonym: azan

Further reading

• “bang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bang m (genitive singular banga, nominative plural banganna)

1. (swimming) stroke, single effort

   Synonyms: béim, buille, oscar

2. effort, (vigorous) movement

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish bang (“ban, interdict”).

Noun

bang f (genitive singular bainge, nominative plural banga)

1. ban, interdict, taboo
2. restraint

Declension

Etymology 3

Noun

bang m (genitive singular baing, nominative plural baing)

1. Alternative form of banc (“bank”)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• Entries containing “bang” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

References

• "bang" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 bang”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “stroke” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Javanese

Etymology 1

Adjective

bang

1. red

Etymology 2

Noun

bang

1. region

Etymology 3

Noun

bang

1. bank

Etymology 4

Noun

bang

1. flower

Lashi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hwa? (“to shine”). Cognates include S'gaw Karen ?? (baw, “yellow”) and Burmese ???? (wang:, “bright”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/

Adjective

bang

1. bright

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[4], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/
• Rhymes: -ba?, -a?

Etymology 1

From Persian ????? (“voice, sound, noise, cry”).

Noun

bang (Jawi spelling ???, plural bang-bang, informal 1st possessive bangku, impolite 2nd possessive bangmu, 3rd possessive bangnya)

1. adhan

   Synonym: azan

Etymology 2

Clipping of abang (“brother”).

Noun

bang (Jawi spelling ???, plural bang-bang, informal 1st possessive bangku, impolite 2nd possessive bangmu, 3rd possessive bangnya)

1. brother (older male sibling)

   Synonyms: abang (bung), kakak, engko, nana, uda

Further reading

• “bang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Mandarin

Romanization

bang

1. Nonstandard spelling of b?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of b?ng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of bàng.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Maranao

Noun

bang

1. (Islam) adhan, call to prayer

References

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b????/
• Rhymes: -????

Noun

bang ?

1. a shout.

Old Norse

Etymology

Onomatopoeic or unknown origin.

Noun

bang n (genitive bangs, plural b?ng)

1. pounding, hammering, banging

Related terms

• banga

References

• bang in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German bang, Dutch bang.

Adjective

bang

1. afraid, scared, fearful
2. timid
3. uneasy

Swedish

Adjective

bang

1. scared, anxious

Noun

bang ?

1. A sudden percussive noise

Declension

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [??a????]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [??a????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [??a????]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from ?.

Noun

(classifier cái) bang

1. (Vietnam) state (a political division of a federation)

Synonyms

• (state): ti?u bang (chiefly overseas Vietnamese)

Derived terms

Related terms

• liên bang
• t?nh bang

Etymology 2

Verb

bang

1. (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) to crash into; to collide with; to hit

   Synonyms: bá, tông

Etymology 3

Sino-Vietnamese word from ?.

Noun

bang

1. (historical) community of overseas Chinese in French Indochina who emigrated from the same province of China

2. Short for bang tá (“assistant district chief”).
3. Short for bang bi?n (“assistant district chief”).

Derived terms

See also

• h?i quán

References

• "bang" in H? Ng?c ??c, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)

Zou

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba??/

Noun

bang

1. wall

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41

English

Alternative forms

• (type of public roadway): Dr. (when part of a specific street’s name)

Etymology

From Middle English driven, from Old English dr?fan (“to drive, force, move”), from Proto-West Germanic *dr?ban, from Proto-Germanic *dr?ban? (“to drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reyb?- (“to drive, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?er- (“support, hold”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: dr?v, IPA^(key): /d?a?v/
• IPA^(key): [d??? ??a?v]
• Rhymes: -a?v

Noun

drive (countable and uncountable, plural drives)

2. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.

3. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
   • 1881, Matthew Arnold, The Incompatibles

     The Murdstonian drive in business.

4. An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc.
   • 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, page 79:

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

5. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.

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

   a typical steam drive, a nuclear drive; chain drive, gear drive; all-wheel drive, front-wheel drive, left-hand drive

   • 2001, Michael Hereward Westbrook, The Electric Car, IET (?ISBN), page 146:

     Heat engine-electric hybrid vehicles : The hybrid vehicle on which most development work has been done to date is the one that couples a heat engine with an electric drive system. The objective remains the same as it was in 1900:

7. A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
   • 1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White:

     We merely waited to rouse good Mrs. Vesey from the place which she still occupied at the deserted luncheon-table, before we entered the open carriage for our promised drive.

8. A driveway.
9. A type of public roadway.

10. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
11. (psychology) Desire or interest.
    • 1995 March 2, John Carman, "Believe it, You Saw It In Sweeps", SFGate [1]

      On the latter show, former Playboy Playmate Carrie Westcott said she'd never met a man who could match her sexual drive.

12. (computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
13. (computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data, as a hard drive, a flash drive.
14. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
16. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
17. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
18. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
19. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
20. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.

    a whist drive; a beetle drive

21. (retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
22. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
23. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

Usage notes

• In connection with a mass-storage device, originally the word “drive” referred solely to the reading and writing mechanism. For the storage device itself, the word “disk” was used instead. This remains a valid distinction for components such as floppy drives or CD drives, in which the drive and the disk are separate and independent items. For other devices, such as hard disks and flash drives, the reading, writing and storage components are combined into an integrated whole, and cannot be separated without destroying the device. In these cases, the words “disk” and “drive” are used interchangeably.

Synonyms

• (self-motivation): ambition, enthusiasm, get-up-and-go, motivation, self-motivation, verve
• (sustained advance in the face of the enemy): attack, push
• (mechanism used to power a vehicle): engine, mechanism, motor
• (trip made in a motor vehicle): ride, spin, trip
• (driveway): approach, driveway
• (public roadway): avenue, boulevard, road, street
• (psychology: desire, interest): desire, impetus, impulse, urge
• (computing: mass-storage device): disk drive
• (golf term):
• (baseball term): line drive
• (cricket term):

Antonyms

• (self-motivation): inertia, lack of motivation, laziness, phlegm, sloth

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

drive (third-person singular simple present drives, present participle driving, simple past drove or (archaic) drave or (dialectal) driv, past participle driven or (dialectal) druv)

1. (transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.

2. (transitive) To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.

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

3. To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
   • c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act IV, Scene 7,^[2]

     One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;

     Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.

4. To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.
   • 1881, Benjamin Jowett (translator), Thucydides [History of the Peloponnesian War], Oxford: Clarendon, Volume I, Book 4, p. 247,^[3]

     […] Demosthenes desired them first to put in at Pylos and not to proceed on their voyage until they had done what he wanted. They objected, but it so happened that a storm came on and drove them into Pylos.

5. (transitive) (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

6. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, Scene 6,^[4]

     There is a litter ready; lay him in’t

     And drive towards Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet

     Both welcome and protection.
7. (transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

8. (transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.

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

10. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).

11. (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.

12. (transitive) To compel (to do something).

13. (transitive) To cause to become.
    • 1855, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Maud, XXV, 1. in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p. 90,^[5]

      And then to hear a dead man chatter

      Is enough to drive one mad.

15. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
16. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.

17. (transitive) To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.

18. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
    • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Chapter 2,^[6]

      […] Unequal match’d,

      Pyrrhus at Priam drives, in rage strikes wide;

    • 1697, John Dryden (translator), The Aeneid, Book I, lines 146-148, in The Works of Virgil, Volume 2, London: J. Tonson, 1709, 3rd edition, pp. 306-307,^[7]

      Thus while the Pious Prince his Fate bewails,

      Fierce Boreas drove against his flying Sails.

      And rent the Sheets […]

    • 1833, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters” in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p. 113,^[8]

      Time driveth onward fast,

      And in a little while our lips are dumb.

    • 1855, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., Volume I, Chapter 1, p. 7,^[9]

      Charles, ill in body and mind, and glad to escape from his enemies under cover of the night and a driving tempest, was at length compelled to sign the treaty of Passau […]
19. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
    • c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Act III, Prologue,^[10]

      […] as a duck for life that dives,

      So up and down the poor ship drives:

    • 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 12,^[11]

      […] the Captain […] order’d the Cable to be cut, and let the Ship drive nearer the Land, where she soon beat to pieces:

20. (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
    • 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Chapter 19, p. 186,^[12]

      He driuen to dismount, threatned, if I did not the like, to doo as much for my horse, as Fortune had done for his.

    • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act V, Scene 4,^[13]

      But darkness and the gloomy shade of death

      Environ you, till mischief and despair

      Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves!

21. (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
    • 1694, Jeremy Collier, Miscellanies in Five Essays, London: Sam. Keeble & Jo. Hindmarsh, “Of General Kindness,” p. 69,^[14]

      You know the Trade of Life can’t be driven without Partners; there is a reciprocal Dependance between the Greatest and the Least.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

22. (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
    • 1697, John Dryden (translator), The Aeneid, Book I, lines 744-745, in The Works of Virgil, Volume 2, London: J. Tonson, 1709, 3rd edition, p. 328,^[15]

      We come not with design of wastful Prey,

      To drive the Country, force the Swains away:

23. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
    • 1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures

      If the miners find no ore, they drive or cut a gallery from the pit a short distance at right angles to the direction of the lodes found

24. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
25. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
26. (transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
27. To be the dominant party in a sex act. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• (herd (animals) in a particular direction): herd
• (cause animals to flee out of):
• (move something by hitting it with great force): force, push
• (cause (a mechanism) to operate): move, operate
• (operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle)):
• (motivate, provide an incentive for): impel, incentivise/incentivize, motivate, push, urge
• (compel): compel, force, oblige, push, require
• (cause to become): make, send, render
• (travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle): motorvate
• (convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle): take

Hyponyms

• test-drive

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Verdi, deriv., diver, rived, vired

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse drífa, from Proto-Germanic *dr?ban?, cognate with Swedish driva, English drive, Dutch drijven, German treiben.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dri?v?/, [?d??i???], [?d??i??]

Verb

drive (past tense drev, past participle drevet, attributive common dreven, attributive definite and plural drevne)

1. (transitive) to force, drive, impel (to put in motion)
2. (transitive) to run (a business)
3. (transitive) to engage in, carry on (an activity or an interest)
4. (transitive) to power (to give power to)
5. (intransitive) to drift, float (to move slowly)

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “drive,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

From Old Norse drífa f, derived form the verb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dri?v?/, [?d??i???], [?d??i??]

Noun

drive c (singular definite driven, plural indefinite driver)

1. drift (a pile of snow)

Inflection

Derived terms

• snedrive

References

• “drive,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 3

From English drive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drajv/, [?d???j?]

Noun

drive c (singular definite driven, not used in plural form)

1. (psychology) drive (desire or interest, self-motivation)

Inflection

Noun

drive n (singular definite drivet, plural indefinite drives)

1. (golf) drive (stroke made with a driver)

Inflection

References

• “drive,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: drivent, drives

Verb

drive

1. first-person singular present indicative of driver
2. third-person singular present indicative of driver
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of driver
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of driver
5. second-person singular imperative of driver

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse drífa, from Proto-Germanic *dr?ban?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?reyb?- (“to drive, push”). Compare with Swedish driva, Icelandic drífa, English drive, Dutch drijven, German treiben.

Verb

drive (imperative driv, present tense driver, passive drives, simple past drev or dreiv, past participle drevet, present tense drivende)

1. to move; turn
2. to pursue
3. to deviate
4. to float; drift
5. to operate; run
6. to follow
7. to drive, propel

Derived terms

References

• “drive” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

drive (present tense driv, past tense dreiv, supine drive, past participle driven, present participle drivande, imperative driv)

1. Alternative form of driva

Derived terms

• drivverdig
• fordrive

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English drive.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?d?ajv/, /?d?aj.vi/

Noun

drive m (Brazil) or f (Portugal) (plural drives)

1. (computer hardware) drive (a mass-storage device)

Scots

Etymology

Derived from the verb, from Old English dr?fan.

Noun

drive (plural drives)

1. a drive
2. a forceful blow, a swipe

Verb

drive (third-person singular present drives, present participle drivin, past drave, past participle driven)

1. to drive