Drive: Definition and part of speech

Drive

  1. n. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. v. t. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
  6. v. t. To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
  7. v. t. To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
  8. v. t. To pass away; — said of time.
  9. v. i. To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.
  10. v. i. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.
  11. 1n. 1 A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
  12. 1v. t. 1 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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