different between drive vs cut

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English cutten, kitten, kytten, ketten (“to cut”) (compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse kytja, kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjan?, *kuttan? (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetw? (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”).

Displaced native Middle English snithen (from Old English sn?þan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Verb

cut (third-person singular simple present cuts, present participle cutting, simple past and past participle cut)

1. (transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
   1. To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
   2. To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
   3. To form or shape by cutting.
   4. (slang) To wound with a knife.
      • 1990, Stephen Dobyns, The house on Alexandrine

        We don't want your money no more. We just going to cut you.

   5. (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.

      The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.

   6. To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.

      • “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

   7. To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
      • 1829, Elijah Hoole, Personal Narrative of a Mission to the South of India, from 1820 to 1828

        she feared she should laugh to hear an European preach in Tamul , but on the contrary , was cut to the heart by what she heard

   8. To castrate or geld.

   9. To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
2. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
   • 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The Deacon's Masterpiece, in Chapter XI:

     The panels of white-wood that cuts like cheese, / But lasts like iron for things like these;

3. (transitive, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
   1. To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.

   2. To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
   3. To reduce, especially intentionally.
   4. To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
      • 1833, Thomas Hamilton, Men and Manners in America

        An English tradesman is always solicitous to cut the shop whenever he can do so with impunity.

   5. To ignore as a social snub.
      • 1903, Samuel Barber, The Way of All Flesh, ch 73:

        At first it had been very painful to him to meet any of his old friends, [...] but this soon passed; either they cut him, or he cut them; it was not nice being cut for the first time or two, but after that, it became rather pleasant than not [...] The ordeal is a painful one, but if a man's moral and intellectual constitution are naturally sound, there is nothing which will give him so much strength of character as having been well cut.

4. (intransitive, film) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.

   The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy.

5. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
6. (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.

7. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.

8. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
9. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
10. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
11. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.

12. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.

13. (transitive, slang) To write.

14. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.

15. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
16. (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.

    Synonym: cut out

17. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
18. (bodybuilding) To lose body mass after bulking, aiming to keep the additional muscle but lose the fat.
19. To perform (a dancing movement etc.).

    to cut a caper

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:cut

Troponyms

• chop, hack, slice, trim

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• copy
• paste

Adjective

cut (comparative more cut, superlative most cut)

1. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
2. Reduced.

3. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
4. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
5. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
   • 1988, Steve Holman, "Christian Conquers Columbus", Ironman 47 (6): 28-34.

     Or how 'bout Shane DiMora? Could he possibly get rip-roaring cut this time around?

   • 2010, Bill Geiger, "6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks", Reps! 17:106

     That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut, ripped midsection.

6. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
7. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
8. (slang, New Zealand, formerly Britain) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.

Synonyms

• (intoxicated): See Thesaurus:drunk

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

cut (countable and uncountable, plural cuts)

1. The act of cutting.

2. The result of cutting.

3. An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.

4. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.

   • which great cut or ditch Sesostris […] purposed to have made a great deale wider and deeper.

   1. An artificial navigation as distinguished from a navigable river
5. A share or portion.

6. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
7. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
8. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
9. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
10. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.

11. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
12. (card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.

13. (card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.
14. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
15. A slab, especially of meat.

16. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
17. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
    • 1819, Washington Irving, (Rip Van Winkle):

      Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.

18. An unkind act; a cruelty.
19. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.

20. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
21. A haircut.
22. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
23. (rail transport) A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
24. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.

25. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
26. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
27. A skein of yarn.

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

28. (slang, uncountable) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.

29. (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
30. (bodybuilding) A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
31. (slang) A hidden or secure place.

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

cut!

1. (film and television) An instruction to cease recording.

   Antonym: action

Anagrams

• TUC, UCT, UTC

Irish

Noun

cut m (genitive singular cuit, nominative plural cuit)

1. Cois Fharraige form of cat (“cat”)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "cut" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Kiput

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *likud, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *likud.

Noun

cut

1. back (the rear of body)

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?sut/

Verb

cut

1. supine of cu?

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /k??t/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /k?t/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle English [Term?], from Old Northern French cot, cote (“hut, cottage”).

Noun

cut m (plural cutiau)

1. hut, shed; cottage, hovel; pen, coop; cage

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

cut m (plural cutiaid)

1. Alternative form of cud (“kite”)

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “cut”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies