drive

Definitions

• Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
• Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
• An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc.
• (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
• A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
• A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
• A driveway.
• A type of public roadway.
• (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
• (psychology) Desire or interest.
• (computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
• (computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data, as a hard drive, a flash drive.
• (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
• (baseball) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
• (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.
• (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
• (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
• A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
• (retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
• (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
• A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.