different between run vs drive

English

Alternative forms

• rin (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen,yronne) of Middle English rinnen (“to run”), from Old English rinnan, iernan (“to run”) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnan? (“to run”) (compare also *rannijan? (“to make run”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h?reyH- (“to boil, churn”). Cognate with Scots rin (“to run”), West Frisian rinne (“to walk, march”), Dutch rennen (“to run, race”), German rennen (“to run, race”), rinnen (“to flow”), Danish rende (“to run”), Swedish ränna (“to run”), Icelandic renna (“to flow”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rend (“to run, run after”). See random.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /??n/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /??n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Verb

run (third-person singular simple present runs, present participle running, simple past ran, past participle run)

1. To move swiftly.
   1. (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
      • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.
   2. (intransitive) To go at a fast pace, to move quickly.

   3. (transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
   4. (transitive) To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.

   5. (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.

   6. (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
   7. (American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
   8. (transitive) To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.

   9. (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.

   10. (figuratively, transitive) To go through without stopping, usually illegally.

   11. (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
2. (fluids) To flow.
   1. (intransitive) Of a liquid, to flow.

   2. (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.

   3. (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.

   4. (transitive) To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from an object.

   5. (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
   6. (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).

   7. To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
3. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
4. (transitive) To control or manage, be in charge of.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.
5. (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.

6. To make participate in certain kinds of competitions
   1. (transitive) To make run in a race.

   2. (transitive) To make run in an election.

7. To exert continuous activity; to proceed.

8. (intransitive) To be presented in the media.

9. (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.

10. (transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
11. (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.

12. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
    1. (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).

    2. (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).

    3. (transitive) To make something extend in space.

    4. (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.

    5. (transitive) To make a machine operate.

13. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.

14. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
15. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
    • 1968, Paul Simon, The Boxer (song)

      I was no more than a boy / In the company of strangers / In the quiet of the railway station / Running scared.

    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.
16. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.

17. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.

18. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
19. To cause to enter; to thrust.
    • There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […].

    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.
20. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.

    • They ran the ship aground.
21. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.

22. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
    • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Friendship

      He runneth two dangers.

23. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.

    • He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them.

24. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
25. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
26. To control or have precedence in a card game.

27. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.
28. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
    • Neither was he ignorant what report ran of himselfe.

29. To have growth or development.

    • or the Richness of the Ground cause them [turnips] to run too much to Leaves

30. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
    • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Nature In Men

      A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
31. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
    • c. 1665, Josiah Child, Discourse on Trade

      Customs run only upon our goods imported or exported, and that but once for all; whereas interest runs as well upon our ships as goods, and must be yearly paid.

32. To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
    • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, I.8:

      Don't let me run the fate of all who show indulgence to your sex […].

33. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
34. (video games, rare) To speedrun.

Conjugation

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Translations

Noun

run (plural runs)

1. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.

   I just got back from my morning run.
2. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
   • 1759, N. Tindal, The Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England, volume 21 (continuation volume 9), page 92:

     […] and on the 18th of January this squadron put to sea. The first place of rendezvous was the boy of port St. Julian, upon the coast of Patagonia, and all accidents were provided against with admirable foresight. Their run to port St. Julian was dangerous […]

   I need to make a run to the store.

3. A pleasure trip.

   Let's go for a run in the car.

   • And I think of giving her a run in London for a change.

4. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
5. Migration (of fish).
6. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
7. A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:
   1. A (regular) trip or route.

      The bus on the Cherry Street run is always crowded.

      • 1977, Star Wars (film)

        You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon? It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.

   2. The route taken while running or skiing.

      Which run did you do today?

   3. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
   4. The distance sailed by a ship.

      a good run; a run of fifty miles

   5. A voyage.

      a run to China

   6. A trial.

      The data got lost, so I'll have to perform another run of the experiment.

   7. (mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model

      This morning's run of the SHIPS statistical model gave Hurricane Priscilla a 74% chance of gaining at least 30 knots of intensity in 24 hours, reconfirmed by the HMON and GFS dynamical models.

   8. (video games) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.

      This was my first successful run without losing any health.

8. Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.

   He can have the run of the house.

9. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.

   He set up a rabbit run.

10. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
11. State of being current; currency; popularity.
    • Template:RQ:Addison Freeloader

      It is impossible for detached papers[...] to have a general run, or long continuance, if they are not diversified[...].

12. Continuous or sequential
    1. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.

       I’m having a run of bad luck.

       He went to Las Vegas and spent all his money over a three-day run.

       • 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace

         They who made their arrangements in the first run of misadventure [...] put a seal on their calamities.
    2. A series of tries in a game that were successful.
    3. A production quantity (such as in a factory).

       Yesterday we did a run of 12,000 units.

       The book’s initial press run will be 5,000 copies.

    4. The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.

       The run of the show lasted two weeks, and we sold out every night.

       It is the last week of our French cinema run.
    5. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
       • 1964 : Heroin by The Velvet Underground

         And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same / When I'm rushing on my run.

       • 1975, Lloyd Y. Young, Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, Brian S. Katcher, Applied Therapeutics for Clinical Pharmacists

         Frank Fixwell, a 25 year-old male, has been on a heroin "run" (daily use) for the past two years.

       • 1977, Richard P. Rettig, Manual J. Torres, Gerald R. Garrett, Manny: a criminal-addict's story, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) ?ISBN

         I was hooked on dope, and hooked bad, during this whole period, but I was also hooked behind robbery. When you're on a heroin run, you stay loaded so long as you can score.

       • 2001, Robin J. Harman, Handbook of Pharmacy Health Education, Pharmaceutical Press ?ISBN, page 172

         This can develop quite quickly (over a matter of hours) during a cocaine run or when cocaine use becomes a daily habit.

       • 2010, Robert DuPont, The Selfish Brain: Learning from Addiction, Hazelden Publishing ?ISBN, page 158

         DA depletion leads to the crash that characteristically ends a cocaine run.

    6. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
    7. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
13. A flow of liquid; a leak.

    The constant run of water from the faucet annoys me.

    a run of must in wine-making

    the first run of sap in a maple orchard

14. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)

    The military campaign near that creek was known as "The battle of Bull Run".

15. A quick pace, faster than a walk.

    He broke into a run.

    1. (of horses) A fast gallop.
16. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.

    Financial insecurity led to a run on the banks, as customers feared for the security of their savings.

17. Any sudden large demand for something.

    There was a run on Christmas presents.

18. Various horizontal dimensions or surfaces
    1. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
    2. The horizontal length of a set of stairs
    3. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
19. A standard or unexceptional group or category.

    He stood out from the usual run of applicants.

20. In sports
    1. (baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
    2. (cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
    3. (American football) A running play.

       [...] one of the greatest runs of all time.
    4. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
    5. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
    6. The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
       • 1832, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court (page 21)

         Well, when you compare the cone type with the cross roller bit, you get a longer run, there is less tendency of the bit to go flat while running in various formations. It cleans itself better.

22. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.

    I have a run in my stocking.

23. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
24. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
25. A pair or set of millstones.

Synonyms

• (horizontal part of a step): tread
• (unravelling): ladder (British)
• (computing): execute, start
• See also Thesaurus:walk

Antonyms

• (horizontal part of a step): rise, riser
• (horizontal distance of a set of stairs): rise

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (computer science): trajectory

Adjective

run (not comparable)

1. In a liquid state; melted or molten.

   Put some run butter on the vegetables.

   • 1921, L. W. Ferris, H. W. Redfield and W. R. North, The Volatile Acids and the Volatile Oxidizable Substances of Cream and Experimental Butter, in the Journal of Dairy Science, volume 4 (1921), page 522:

     Samples of the regular run butter were sealed in 1 pound tins and sent to Washington, where the butter was scored and examined.

2. Cast in a mould.
   • 1833, The Cabinet Cyclopaedia: A treatise on the progressive improvement and present state of the Manufactures in Metal, volume 2, Iron and Steel (printed in London), page 314:

     Vast quantities are cast in sand moulds, with that kind of run steel which is so largely used in the production of common table-knives and forks.

   • c. 1839, (Richard of Raindale, The Plan of my House vindicated, quoted by) T. T. B. in the Dwelling of Richard of Raindale, King of the Moors, published in The Mirror, number 966, 7 September 1839, page 153:

     For making tea I have a kettle,

     Besides a pan made of run metal;

     An old arm-chair, in which I sit well —

     The back is round.

3. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
4. (of a zoology) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.
   • 1889, Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, Fishing: Salmon and Trout, fifth edition, page 185:

     The temperature of the water is consequently much higher than in either England or Scotland, and many newly run salmon will be found in early spring in the upper waters of Irish rivers where obstructions exist.

   • 2005, Rod Sutterby, Malcolm Greenhalgh, Atlantic Salmon: An Illustrated Natural History, page 86:

     Thus, on almost any day of the year, a fresh-run salmon may be caught legally somewhere in the British Isles.

5. Smuggled.

   run brandy

Verb

run

1. past participle of rin

Anagrams

• Nur, URN, nur, urn

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

run

1. first-person singular present indicative of runnen
2. imperative of runnen

Gothic

Romanization

run

1. Romanization of ????????????

Mandarin

Romanization

run

1. Nonstandard spelling of rún.
2. Nonstandard spelling of rùn.

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.

Norman

Etymology

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

Noun

run m (plural runs)

1. (nautical) beam (of a ship)

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *r?n?. Cognate with the Old Saxon r?na, Old High German r?na (German Raun), Old Norse rún, and Gothic ???????????????? (runa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ru?n/

Noun

r?n f

1. whisper
2. rune
3. mystery, secret
4. advice
5. writing

Declension

Derived terms

• ?er?ne
• r?nere
• r?nian

Descendants

• Middle English: roun
  • Scots: rune, roun, round
  • English: roun, round

See also

• dierne (adjective)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /run/

Noun

run n

1. genitive plural of runo

Noun

run f

1. genitive plural of runa

Further reading

• run in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *-ru?n.

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [zun??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [?un??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [??w??m??]

Verb

run • (?, ?, ?, ????)

1. to tremble, to shiver (due to cold)

Derived terms

Related terms

• rung (“to shake”)

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