(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.
(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.
(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.
(v. t.) To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
(v. t.) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
(v. t.) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
(v. t.) To pass away; -- said of time.
(v. i.) To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.
(v. i.) To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.
(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.
(v. i.) To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at.
(v. i.) To distrain for rent.
(p. p.) Driven.
(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.
(n.) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
(n.) Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
(n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.
(n.) A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hemodynamic efficiency of the drive was tested in a number of in vivo experiments.
(2) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
(3) This force will be numerically similar to the net driving Starling force in small pores, but distinctly different in large pores.
(4) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(5) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
(6) This hydrostatic pressure may well be the driving force for creating channels for acid and pepsin to cross the mucus layer covering the mucosal surface.
(7) After all, you can only drive one car at a time or go on one holiday at a time.
(8) The difference in APD between the first drive train and drive trains after at least 3 minutes of pacing when APD had stabilized was not significant for an inter-train pause exceeding 8 seconds.
(9) Analysis of caloric components (fat, protein and carbohydrates) reveals that carbohydrates are the most important factor driving the total energy effect.
(10) The solution of these differential equations gives the velocity of the basilar membrane and hence other related quantities, e.g., displacement, pressure, driving-point impedance at the stapes.
(11) The statistics underline the significant strides being taken by the industry to meet a government drive to reduce Britain's carbon emissions, although the scale of renewable energy subsidies remains controversial.
(12) However, because my film was dominated by a piano, I didn't want the driving-strings sound he'd used for Greenaway.
(13) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
(14) But Steven Brounstein, a lawyer for one of the officers, said: 'For the DA to be equating this case to a drive-by shooting is absurd.
(15) "But it is necessary to collect tax that is owed and it is necessary to reduce tax avoidance and the crown dependencies and the overseas territories need to play their part in that drive and they need to do more."
(16) However, there are conflicting views as to the way these patients drive.
(17) "We see him driving around, but he keeps to himself and we're quite close neighbours," said Libbi Darroch, as she groomed her 7-year-old showjumper Muffy at the Coatesville pony club.
(18) The best was the oral version of the Symbol Digit Modalities test, which by itself accounted for 70% of the variance of the full-sized-vehicle driving score.
(19) Mild amelioration of sleep-wakefulness cycles and impulse and drive functions could be observed clinically in both groups.
(20) He unleashes a scorching drive from about 18 yards, which Joe Hart tips wide via his right post.
Tamp
Definition:
(v. t.) In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected.
(v. t.) To drive in or down by frequent gentle strokes; as, to tamp earth so as to make a smooth place.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results support the use by physical therapists of two parallel versions of the TAMP to describe the motor performance of adults and school-aged children with physical disabilities.
(2) The Tufts Assessment of Motor Performance (TAMP) was administered to 69 children (ages 6-18 years, X = 12.1, SD = 3.9) and 137 adults (ages 19-83 years, X = 46.7, SD = 20.0) with neurological and musculoskeletal impairments.
(3) The Tamp cells are found in the spleens of donor mice at 6 days after immunization with cryptococcal antigen, and they amplify the anticryptococcal DTH response when transferred to syngeneic recipients at the time of immunization of the recipients.
(4) At the same time, he tamped down speculation that US warplanes would strike Isis in Syria as well as Iraq.
(5) The cohesiveness of size fractions of acetylsalicylic acid and lactose alone and in various combinations has been determined by estimation of the rate of decrease in volume as a function of tamping under standard conditions.
(6) The structure of 2-BDB-TAMP was determined by UV, 1H NMR, and 13C NMR spectroscopy as well as by bromide and phosphorus analysis.
(7) The rate constant (kobs) for loss of ADP activation exhibits a nonlinear dependence on 2-BDB-TAMP concentration, suggesting a reversible binding of reagent (KR = 0.74 mM) prior to irreversible modification.
(8) Hillary Clinton’s mea culpa at the United Nations on Tuesday was supposed to tamp down the scandal over her use of a private email address as secretary of state.
(9) While Clinton’s campaign has long gone out of its way to tamp down expectations in Iowa, it is also worth noting that the closest analogue to her 2016 candidacy in modern times, that of then vice-president Al Gore in 2000, received more than 63% of the Iowan vote.
(10) At 1.2 mM 2-BDB-TAMP, kobs = 0.060 min-1 and is not affected by alpha-ketoglutarate or GTP, but is decreased to 0.020 min-1 by 5 mM NADH and to zero by 5 mM ADP.
(11) The NSA has been extraordinarily careful not to lose her support, even as she has bristled against its spying on foreign leaders and tamped down internal committee challenges to the NSA.
(12) The California Correctional Peace Officers Association, a union representing 27,400 members, has defended their right to select inmates for solitary confinement and to determine the punishment's duration, saying it helps to tamp down violence.
(13) Cash register operation, regardless of register system, caused static load (mean) in the thoracic erector spinae at 4.1-6.2 TAMP% (Time-Averaged Myoelectrical Potential), in the infraspinatus at 2.9-5.8 TAMP%, and in the trapezius at 2.8-3.8 TAMP%.
(14) The preoperative recognition of the CA I-IV and NC III fracture types proved essential to the successful resection of five Type I, five Type II, 36 Type III, and ten Type IV fragments through extended laminotomies, hemilaminectomies, and laminectomies with the down biting curette, tamp, and mallet technique.
(15) Two of the compounds, L-bis (1-thio-2-amino-4-methylpentane) dihydrochloride (TAMP) and L-bis (1-thio-2-amino-3-phenylpropane) dihydrochloride (TAPP), caused significant inhibition.
(16) The final product was generated by reaction of TAMP with 1,4-dibromobutanedione.
(17) The cancellous and cortical bone from the window is then tamped in behind the patella tendon, buttressing the tendon, and permitting the knee a full unguarded range of motion on the operating table.
(18) An evaluation of seven compaction parameters revealed that all tamping stations and all piston positions within a station, with the exception of station #1, contribute equally to plug formation.
(19) We have to lift them up and not deny them or try to tamp them down, but to try to understand them and figure out how to make more progress.” “We need to recognise that the situation in Ferguson speaks to the broader problems that we still face as a nation,” he added.
(20) In contrast, when Ts1 cells were given at the time of adoptive transfer of Tamp cells, the recipients displayed amplified DTH responses, indicating that Ts1 cells do not affect the Tamp cells' function once the Tamp cells have been produced.