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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), v. t. [imp. {Drove} (dr[=o]v), formerly {Drave} (dr[=a]v); p. p. {Driven} (dr[i^]v'n); p. pr & vb n. {Driving}.] [AS. dr[=i]fan; akin to OS dr[=i]ban, D. drijven, OHG. tr[=i]ban, G. treiben Icel. dr[=i]fa, Goth. dreiban Cf {Drift}, {Drove}.] 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 A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along --Pope. Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. --Pope. 2. 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. How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother! --Thackeray. 3. 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 `` Enough to drive one mad.'' --Tennyson. He driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his --Sir P. Sidney. 4. To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. [Now used only colloquially.] --Bacon. The trade of life can not be driven without partners. --Collier. 5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained. To drive the country, force the swains away --Dryden. 6. (Mining) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. --Tomlinson. 7. To pass away -- said of time. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses implies forcible or violent action It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by applying a force behind; to lead is to cause to move by applying the force before or in front. It takes a variety of meanings, according to the objects by which it is followed; as to drive an engine, to direct and regulate its motions; to drive logs, to keep them in the current of a river and direct them in their course; to drive feathers or down to place them in a machine, which by a current of air, drives off the lightest to one end and collects them by themselves. ``My thrice-driven bed of down.'' --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Driving \Driv"ing\, a. 1. Having great force of impulse; as a driving wind or storm. 2. Communicating force; impelling; as a driving shaft. {Driving axle}, the axle of a driving wheel, as in a locomotive. {Driving box} (Locomotive), the journal box of a driving axle. See Illust. of {Locomotive}. {Driving note} (Mus.), a syncopated note; a tone begun on a weak part of a measure and held through the next accented part thus anticipating the accent and driving it through {Driving spring}, a spring fixed upon the box of the driving axle of a locomotive engine to support the weight and deaden shocks. [Eng.] --Weale. {Driving wheel} (Mach.), a wheel that communicates motion; one of the large wheels of a locomotive to which the connecting rods of the engine are attached; -- called also simply, driver. See Illust. of {Locomotive}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Driving \Driv"ing\, n. 1. The act of forcing or urging something along the act of pressing or moving on furiously. 2. Tendency; drift. [R.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: driving adj 1: having the power of driving or impelling; "a driving personal ambition"; "the driving force was his innate enthusiasm"; "an impulsive force" [syn: {impulsive}] 2: acting with vigor; "responsibility turned the spoiled playboy into a driving young executive" n 1: hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver; "he sliced his drive out of bounds" [syn: {drive}] 2: the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal [syn: {motoring}]
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