Drive

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( v. t.) 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): ( v. t.) 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): ( v. t.) 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): ( n.) A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for playing the longest strokes.

(5): ( v. t.) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.

(6): ( v. t.) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.

(7): ( n.) A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.

(8): ( v. i.) To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.

(9): ( v. i.) To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.

(10): ( v. i.) 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): ( v. t.) To pass away; - said of time.

(12): ( v. i.) To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; - usually with at.

(13): ( n.) A tamping iron.

(14): ( n.) A mallet.

(15): ( n.) An implement used for driving;

(16): ( n.) A stroke from the tee, generally a full shot made with a driver; also, the distance covered by such a stroke.

(17): ( n.) In various games, as tennis, cricket, etc., the act of player who drives the ball; the stroke or blow; the flight of the ball, etc., so driven.

(18): ( v. t.) Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, etc., to propel (the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible throw.

(19): ( v. i.) To make a drive, or stroke from the tee.

(20): ( p. p.) Driven.

(21): ( n.) The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; - distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.

(22): ( n.) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.

(23): ( n.) Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

(24): ( n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.

(25): ( n.) A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

(26): ( v. t.) To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.

(27): ( v. i.) To distrain for rent.

King James Dictionary

Drive, pret. Drove, formerly drave pp. Driven, G.

1. To impel or urge forward by force to force to move by physical force. We drive a nail into wood with a hammer the wind or a current drive a ship on the ocean. 2. To compel or urge forward by other means than absolute physical force, or by means that compel the will as, to drive cattle to market. A smoke drives company from the room. A man may be drive by the necessities of the times, to abandon his country.

Drive thy business let not thy business drive thee.

3. To chase to hunt.

To drive the deer with hound and horn.

4. To impel a team of horses or oxen to move forward, and to direct their course hence, to guide or regulate the course of the carriage drawn by them. We say, to drive a team, or to drive a carriage drawn by a team. 5. To impel to greater speed. 6. To clear any place by forcing away what is in it.

To drive the country, force the swains away.

7. To force to compel in a general sense. 8. To hurry on inconsiderately often with on. In this sense it is more generally intransitive. 9. To distress to straighten as desperate men far driven. 10. To impel by influence of passion. Anger and lust often drive men into gross crimes. 11. To urge to press as, to drive an argument. 12. To impel by moral influence to compel as, the reasoning of his opponent drove him to acknowledge his error. 13. To carry on to prosecute to keep in motion as, to drive a trade to drive business. 14. To make light by motion or agitation as, to drive feathers.

His thrice driven bed of down.

The sense is probably to beat but I do not recollect this application of the word in America.

To drive away, to force to remove to a distance to expel to dispel to scatter.

To drive off, to compel to remove from a place to expel to drive to a distance.

To drive out, to expel.

Drive,

1. To be forced along to be impelled to be moved by any physical force or agent as, a ship drives before the wind. 2. To rush and press with violence as, a storm drives against the house.

Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.

3. To pass in a carriage as, he drove to London. This phrase is elliptical. He drove his horses or carriage to London. 4. To aim at or tend to to urge towards a point to make an effort to reach or obtain as, we know the end the author is driving at. 5. To aim a blow to strike at with force.

Four rogues in buckram let drive at me.

Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is opposed to lead. To drive a body is to move it by applying a force behind to lead is to cause to move by applying the force before, or forward of the body.

Drive, n. Passage in a carriage.