driveverb
uk/draɪv/us/draɪv/drove, drivendrive verb (USE VEHICLE)
A1 [ I or T ] to move or travel on land in a motor vehicle, especially as the person controlling the vehicle's movement:
the crime of operating a motor vehicle after having drunk more alcohol than you are legally allowed to:
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- I asked him to drive more slowly, but he didn't take any notice.
- The police fined her for driving through a red light.
- The police spotted him driving a stolen car.
- We drove along a narrow, bumpy road.
- She drives the kids to school every morning.
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On the road: driving & operating road vehicles
- aquaplaning
- back sth up
- boxed in
- bump start
- bus driver
- car seat
- carve
- corner
- dip
- driver
- driving
- foot
- manoeuvring
- motor
- motorist
- mph
- pull away
- running costs
- scorch
- turning circle
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drive verb (FORCE)
C1 [ T ] to force someone or something to go somewhere or do something:
C1 [ T ] to force someone or something into a particular state, often an unpleasant one:
to make someone extremely annoyed:
to make you very excited, especially sexually:
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- Extreme stress had driven him to the brink of a nervous breakdown.
- His family could not understand how this quiet, well-adjusted man could have been driven to this terrible deed.
- Self-hatred apparently drove her to mutilate her own face.
- Her husband's violent and abusive behaviour drove her to the verge of despair.
- She had her demons and, later in life, they drove her to drink.
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Causing somebody to act
- a kick up the arse/backside idiom
- arm-twisting
- bludgeon
- bounce
- bounce sb into sth
- bulldoze
- force sb's hand idiom
- forcible
- hold sb to ransom idiom
- impel
- impose
- railroad
- reduce sb to sth
- screw
- shanghai
- slap
- slap sth on/onto (sth/sb)
- squeeze
- squeeze sth out of sb
- trap
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drive verb (PROVIDE POWER)
C2 [ T ] to provide the power to keep a machine working, or to make something happen:
[ T ] If you drive a ball, especially in golf or baseball, you hit it hard so that it travels a long way:
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Machines - general words
- 3-D printer
- automatic
- backhoe
- bot
- cash machine
- cement mixer
- cloud chamber
- compactor
- contraption
- cotton gin
- crank
- derrick
- gadget
- humidifier
- lift
- Mk
- rotor
- selector
- sensitive
- vending machine
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Idiom(s)
Phrasal verb(s)
drivenoun
uk/draɪv/us/draɪv/drive noun (ROAD)
[ C ] used in the names of some roads, especially roads containing houses:
[ C ] mainly UK also driveway a short private road that leads from a public road to a house or garage:
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Roads: urban & residential streets
- access road
- artery
- Ave
- avenue
- backstreets
- Blvd
- driveway
- lane
- lollipop man/lady
- main drag
- main street
- mews
- parade
- parkway
- plaza
- row 1
- seafront
- square
- the whole street idiom
- woonerf
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drive noun (PLANNED EFFORT)
[ C ] a planned effort to achieve something:
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Trying and making an effort
- a blitz on sth idiom
- all-out
- assault
- attempt
- attempted
- bid
- crack
- go the extra mile idiom
- go to great lengths idiom
- God helps those who help themselves idiom
- grasp at sth
- grope
- push
- seek
- shoot
- strain every nerve idiom
- stretch a/the point idiom
- strive
- strove
- succeed
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drive noun (COMPUTING)
B1 [ C ] a device for storing computer information:
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Computer hardware
- 3-D printer
- blackberry
- brick
- bubblejet
- codec
- handheld
- joypad
- Macintosh
- micro
- microcomputer
- motherboard
- mouse
- ram
- shift key
- tablet
- toggle
- trackball
- underscore
- VDT
- word processor
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drive noun (VEHICLE)
B1 [ C ] a journey by car:
[ U ] the system used to power a vehicle:
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Journeys
- adventure
- break-journey
- carpool
- carsick
- convoy
- field trip
- flight
- foray
- journey
- mystery tour
- odyssey
- outward-bound
- peregrination
- pilgrimage
- ride
- round trip
- sail
- short-haul
- the long haul idiom
- trip
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drive noun (POWER)
C1 [ U ] energy and determination to achieve things:
[ C ] (in sport, especially golf or baseball) a powerful hit that sends a ball a long way
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Motives and reasons
- cause 1
- first principles
- ground
- hidden agenda
- impulse
- in the name of sth idiom
- inclination
- justification
- mainspring
- motivation
- motive
- name
- object
- peg
- rationale
- reason
- should
- wherefores
- why
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