Usually means: Propel or carry forward motion.
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General (35 matching dictionaries)
  1. drive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. drive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. drive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. drive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Drive, drive, drive: Wordnik
  7. drive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. drive: Wiktionary
  9. drive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. drive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. drive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. drive: Dictionary.com
  13. drive (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. drive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DRIVE, Drive (Alan Jackson album), Drive (Amerie EP), Drive (Anneke van Giersbergen album), Drive (Bic Runga EP), Drive (Bic Runga album), Drive (CBC Music), Drive (Cars song), Drive (Cheyenne Jackson song), Drive (For Daddy Gene), Drive (Gareth Emery Album), Drive (Gareth Emery album), Drive (Incubus song), Drive (Miley Cyrus song), Drive (Poisonblack album), Drive (R.E.M. song), Drive (Robert Palmer album), Drive (Scott Grimes EP), Drive (Scott Grimes album), Drive (Shannon Noll song), Drive (Steve Wariner album), Drive (The Cars song), Drive (The X-Files), Drive (YouTube), Drive (band), Drive (charity), Drive (film), Drive (golf), Drive (song), Drive (soundtrack), Drive (web series), Drive, The Drive (TV series), The Drive (album), The Drive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Drive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. drive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. drive: Rhymezone
  19. drive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. drive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. drive: MyWord.info
  22. DRIVE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Drive: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. drive: Free Dictionary
  25. drive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. drive: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. drive: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. drive: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. DRIVE: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary
  3. Drive (disambiguation), drive: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. drive: CCI Computer
  2. The Microsoft Lexicon (No longer online)
  3. drive: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. Drive (disambiguation), drive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  5. Drive (disambiguation), drive: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. DRIVE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. drive: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. drive, drive, drive: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. drive: Urban Dictionary

Sports (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Football Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Inter Badminton (No longer online)
  5. drive: Golfer's Dictionary
  6. Drive: Sports Definitions
  7. Badminton Terms (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  4. Drive: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See drivability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To operate a vehicle
verb:  (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
verb:  (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
verb:  (transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
verb:  (transitive, slang, aviation) To operate (an aircraft).
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
verb:  To compel to move
verb:  (transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
verb:  (transitive) (especially animals) To cause to flee out of.
verb:  To cause to move by the application of physical force
verb:  (transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
verb:  (intransitive, sports, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
verb:  (transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
verb:  (transitive) To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
verb:  To compel to undergo a non-physical change
verb:  (transitive) To provide an impetus for a change in one's situation or state of mind.
verb:  (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
verb:  (transitive) To compel, exert pressure, coerce (to do something).
verb:  (transitive) To cause to become.
verb:  (transitive) To motivate through the application or demonstration of force; to coerce, intimidate, or threaten; to impel or urge onward in such a way.
verb:  (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
verb:  (intransitive) To move forcefully.
verb:  (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
verb:  (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
verb:  (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
verb:  (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
verb:  (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
verb:  (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
verb:  To be the dominant party in a sex act.
noun:  Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
noun:  Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
noun:  An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
noun:  An act of driving (prompting) livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
noun:  (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
noun:  A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
noun:  A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
noun:  A driveway.
noun:  A type of public roadway.
noun:  (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
noun:  (psychology) Desire or interest.
noun:  (computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
noun:  (computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
noun:  (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
noun:  (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
noun:  (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
noun:  (philanthropy) A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
noun:  (retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
noun:  (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
noun:  A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
noun:  (UK, especially Bristol and Wales, slang) Friendly term of address for a bus driver.

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