(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.
Wagoner
Definition:
(n.) One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to drive a wagon.
(n.) The constellation Charles's Wain, or Ursa Major. See Ursa major, under Ursa.
Example Sentences:
(1) You wrote I Will Always Love You for Porter Wagoner, even though he had sued you.
(2) The danger is, in the face of western criticism and in the strong belief they have done more than most of their neighbours to be progressive, that they will now circle the wagons.
(3) Samples of fresh grass, wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in a stack silo and cut with either a cylinder-type forage harvester (11.3 mm of length cut) or a self-loading wagon (42.4 mm of length cut), wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in large round bales, and grass hay were obtained from the same field and used for determination of DM and CP degradability.
(4) Tractors accounted for one half of these machinery-related deaths, followed by farm wagons, combines, and forklifts.
(5) Individuals have decided to abandon their own families and jump on the Mandela wagon.
(6) Rail privatisation also saw the end of much domestic locomotive, wagon and carriage building – more workers on the scrapheap, more imports to further transform the balance of payments into a horror story.
(7) Although Knoller and the other young people in the wagon took it in turns to sit and stand, their efforts proved insufficient.
(8) "The meaning of the elections is: Italy can play a role; Italy is not the last wheel of the wagon; Italy is not the bottom of the class.
(9) The train now trundles through silent stations, its wagons free of the crowds of men, women and children who once clung to roofs and ladders.
(10) "The trains had 10 wagons and 100 people squeezed into each one," he says.
(11) If the wagons do start rolling in, I think there will be a massive upsurge,” he says.
(12) Nato thought better of hitching its wagon to the star of the hot-headed Georgian president.
(13) Gulnara Suleymanova and her family of five live in a wagon behind Baku’s prestigious new sports stadium, built especially for next month’s European Games.
(14) The wounded were being loaded into wagons; Wilfred managed to scramble up.
(15) If you then get the right of the party behaving in that way, that’s when you get real trouble and that’s the risk we’ve got at the moment: that there are some in the party all circling the wagon against Jeremy’s campaign.
(16) Secret Trump voters reverse their support: 'He seems to be insane' Read more As the Washington pundits and pollsters wrote them off, there was a sense of circling the wagons.
(17) She had become Snowflake’s unofficial welcome wagon, local therapist and advocate.
(18) "When resources are tight and all our inclinations are to pull the corporate wagons into a circle and fight to defend our own vested interests, that is exactly the time when we need to be at our boldest and most imaginative," he said.
(19) He was bundled into a wooden box which Roland had built specially for the job and then carried in a hand wagon to his Audi 8 car.
(20) 5.48pm BST Summary of today's events: - 196 bodies being stored in refrigerated railway wagons in Torez.