(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.
Teamster
Definition:
(n.) One who drives a team.
Example Sentences:
(1) To determine occupational mortality in the Central States Teamster population, all death certificates for a three-month period in 1976 were collected and coded.
(2) We conducted a case-control study of lung cancer deaths in the Teamsters Union to compare the risk of different occupations within the teamsters, after controlling for smoking and other confounders.
(3) If passed, a similar proposal could be taken up by teamsters in Oakland, California.
(4) Seattle drivers pushing for the legislation to pass belong to App-Based Drivers Association, ABDA, and are likely to join the Seattle Teamsters Local 117 union if it passes.
(5) This settlement speaks to the establishment of drivers’ associations,” said Rome Aloise, president of Teamsters Joint Council 7.
(6) Dawn Gearhart, policy coordinator for the Seattle Teamsters local, suggests that the fact that Seattle drivers are organizing has already made a difference.
(7) Chinese-produced auto parts could account for more than a majority of a car’s parts and still get sweetheart treatment.” James P Hoffa, the Teamsters president, called it a “bad deal”, saying: “TPP backers like to insist it will result in new work for Americans, although they can never quite explain how.” Numerous environmental groups including Greenpeace and Food and Water Watch, criticized the deal, with Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth, calling it “a frontal assault on environmental and climate safeguards”.
(8) Today Jimmy Hoffa (the Teamsters union leader), Richard Daley (the Chicago mayor) and Martin Luther King (the Southern Christian Leadership Conference head) all carry the names and job titles their fathers did; 5% of senators are doing the jobs their daddies did; and the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is herself a congressman's daughter.
(9) Overall, our results suggest that diesel truck drivers have an excess risk of lung cancer compared to other teamsters in jobs outside the trucking industry.
(10) You farm families, and teachers, and Teamsters, and cops, and cooks.
(11) Seattle experiment Both Uber and the Teamsters have some experience with the new kind of organizing that could arise from the O’Connor settlement.
(12) Schulberg's hatred for labour racketeering, the source of his deep empathy for the longshoremen in On the Waterfront, led in 1960 to an invitation from Robert Kennedy to write a script based on Kennedy's The Enemy Within, an account of his legal war against Jimmy Hoffa and racketeering in the Teamsters union.
(13) The Teamsters have also been organizing Uber drivers in Seattle, and hope to start the process of collective bargaining soon, thanks to the passage of local legislation similar to the now-defunct California state bill.
(14) Work history data were also obtained from the Teamsters Union.
(15) But on Friday afternoon, the Teamsters union announced that it was launching a campaign to organize Uber drivers in California, possibly through the very drivers’ associations that Uber has agreed to form.
(16) A retired teamster with abdominal pain and anemia was found to have lead intoxication presumably due to and old bullet in his ankle.
(17) It’s big business for the Teamsters... if they can secure more members paying them $400 a year that’s business going into Jimmy Hoffa’s coffers.” Falling fuel prices had made little difference to National Express’s profits, he said, due to hedging, although Finch said it could mean a £5m difference in 2015.
(18) We previously reported that long-term truck drivers and mechanics in the Teamsters Union had higher lung cancer risks than Teamsters outside the trucking industry.
(19) But Rolf is quick to say that many others in Seattle’s thriving progressive community were key to those successes: the United Food and Commercial Workers, the Teamsters, OneAmerica (an immigrant advocacy group), Casa Latina, Moms Rising, the city and state labor council, and Kshama Sawant, a Socialist City Council member.
(20) Finch was forthright in dismissing claims from the Teamsters that employees in the US were being prevented from organising, with the union led by Jimmy Hoffa Jr expected to renew its campaign ahead of the company AGM in May.