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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
drive
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a burning/driving ambition (=a very strong ambition)
▪ She had a burning ambition to become a racing car driver.
a car drives off/away
▪ The police car drove off at top speed.
a CD drive (=the place on a computer where you put in a CD-ROM)
▪ He popped the CD in the CD drive.
a driving banBritish English
▪ He was given a three-year driving ban and a fine.
a driving licenceBritish English, a driver's license American English
▪ 80 percent of 18 year olds had a driver’s license.
a driving test
▪ A driving test can be a nerve-racking experience.
a driving/parking/traffic offence
▪ Speeding is the most common traffic offence.
a driving/swimming etc lesson
▪ Dad said he'd pay for driving lessons as my birthday present.
a petition drive American English (= an attempt to get a lot of people to sign a petition)
▪ More than 20,000 signatures were gathered by the petition drive.
a short walk/flight/drive
▪ It’s a short drive to the airport.
▪ The hotel is only a short walk from the beach.
an hour’s walk/drive etc
▪ It’s about an hour’s drive away.
autograph driving
be forced/driven into exile
▪ Many of his political opponents have been forced into exile.
disk drive
disqualified from driving
▪ He was disqualified from driving.
drink and drive
▪ Don’t drink and drive.
drive a car
▪ In England you can learn to drive a car when you are 17.
drive on/along/down the motorway
▪ He was driving along the motorway at a steady sixty miles an hour.
drive sb to ruin (=cause ruin for sb)
▪ Farmers told how foot-and-mouth disease was driving them to ruin.
drive shaft
Drive...stakes into the ground
▪ Drive two stakes into the ground about three feet apart.
drive...to despair
▪ The noise from the neighbours used to drive him to despair.
driving licence
driving rain (=heavy rain that is falling fast or being blown along)
▪ They struggled to walk against driving rain.
driving range
driving school
driving snow (=falling fast)
▪ We walked home through driving snow.
driving test
driving...crazy (=really annoying me)
▪ Turn that music down. It’s driving me crazy!
driving...mad
▪ He’s been driving me mad!
driving...nuts (=annoying me very much)
▪ Turn that radio off. It’s driving me nuts.
driving...up the wall (=making me annoyed)
▪ That noise is driving me up the wall.
drunk driving
flash drive
four-wheel drive
hard drive
left-hand drive
long journey/walk/flight/drive etc (=a journey etc over a large distance that takes a lot of time)
▪ It’s a long walk to the shops from here.
motorway driving
▪ Is motorway driving included in the driving test?
pen drive
reckless driving
▪ He was accused of causing death by reckless driving.
right-hand drive
sex drive
test drive
USB drive
within travelling/commuting/driving distance of sth (=near enough to make travel to or from a place possible)
▪ The job was not within travelling distance of my home.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
along
▪ I am driving along a narrow main road, used by fast-moving traffic, with my children in the back seat.
▪ The kid drove along through the green hills of California without saying a word.
▪ One would find oneself driving along in a pall of black poison.
▪ Los Angeles wants music to drive along to because commutes can be so long.
▪ Tony was humming to himself as he drove along but Freddie sat silent, sulking over the raid that never was.
▪ But of course they lived inside history, and events were being driven along by larger historical forces.
▪ Meanwhile, Eric had turned left and pulled away, driving along the High Street towards the top end of the town.
▪ I drive along the track, my heart full.
around
▪ After driving around for some time with no success I decided that I must get on my way.
▪ Often, as I drove around, I felt as if I were in an enormous time park.
▪ It may have been driven around a bit before it entered the water.
▪ She got back in the car and drove around to the back where the room was assigned.
▪ A Chambers colleague remarked on seeing it that it must be like driving around in a Smartie.
▪ Mayor, why don't you drive around and get a reality check?
▪ They had driven around for over an hour trying to find the rave that every one was going on about.
▪ But parents will still drive around with children in the front seat, either with air bags, or no seat belts.
away
▪ As the car drove away Holly's smile faded.
▪ As they drove away Fong looked back.
▪ To impress and drive away lesser males, the harem bull develops a darker coat and a swollen neck.
▪ I drove away to the sound of singing.
▪ They were thought to have been driven away by a third man in a stolen Golf GTi.
▪ Then the cameras were switched off, police cars drove away, and the doors to the hospital closed behind them.
▪ A searing fire of elation bathed him suddenly, driving away the last vestiges of fear.
▪ Zanger said he retorted that he needed his glasses to drive away.
back
▪ As they drove back from a barbecue the bee stung Rod's arm.
▪ He drove back to Acra and slept the sleep of a confused man.
▪ They drove back to Monte Samana in silence, and Miguel stopped near the medical centre.
▪ Then we got into the van and drove back to town.
▪ This onslaught was driven back by a police baton charge in the course of which four youths were slightly hurt.
▪ If Sien went back with them, she would be driven back to her old life in no time.
▪ Over it, water cascaded into a half-million-gallon pool, then was driven back to the top by steam-powered pumps.
by
▪ As we drive by, a tiny pick-up truck approaches with two more.
▪ A convertible drove by, but it was white and a different make.
▪ He heard a car drive by.
▪ It was against the law to be moving when the Prime Minister drove by.
▪ Creed drove by, slowing down and scrutinising the open doorway before finding somewhere to park.
▪ They drove by again and then again, each time slower and more menacingly.
▪ Once in a while some one drove by down the dirt road along the shore.
▪ I look at the couple as I drive by.
down
▪ As a result of these expectations, funds flow from short-term markets to long-term markets, thereby driving down long-term interest rates.
▪ Marshall, however, preferred to drive down to the office himself.
▪ So he had driven down from Edinburgh to intercept the train.
▪ Early one spring I drove down to South Carolina to visit some friends.
▪ Later in the day, after their shopping expedition, Jessica and Karen drove down to the docks.
▪ They disappeared July 15 after driving down to Tijuana to attend cockfights at the annual Tijuana Fair.
▪ I drove down the High Street.
home
▪ They had driven home arguing about which night was Midsummer night.
▪ Three outs, and everyone drives home.
▪ She drove home through further rain.
▪ We dragged ourselves to our cars and drove home.
▪ I required a longer rest; and could I be driven home by some one, as I felt so tired?
▪ They drove home in almost complete silence.
▪ In this self-righteous mood he drove home.
▪ These sessions had the desired effect of driving home the urgent need for change.
off
▪ Within two minutes the automatic aerial was retracted and the Volkswagen drove off.
▪ Then I drove off, with my clothes and without further explanation, to my parents' house.
▪ Then Hank came out and drove off, and he cursed him quietly.
▪ Phagu drove off to scout another place; the rest of us packed up and walked an extra six miles.
▪ Then he drove off, the wrong way down the dual carriageway, said Jane Cockburn, prosecuting.
▪ They get into the car and drive off, but soon they come to a police roadblock.
▪ The car drove off at speed, the tyres screeching, and disappeared into the endless bricks of suburbia.
▪ Then he got into his white Olds and drove off to clear his head.
on
▪ She accelerated hastily, and drove on.
▪ The girl had insisted on driving her all the way home.
▪ Stanley stopped to assess the chances of driving on.
▪ After a tiny hesitation the man laughs back, and we drive on through the site.
▪ At the last moment she stopped the manoeuvre and drove on instead.
▪ When he sees the ominous Eric Roberts with his thumb out, Henriksen drives on by.
▪ The driver banged on his horn but Gregson drove on at speed, unconcerned by the accident he'd almost caused.
▪ We headed toward this, our third storm, by driving on a two-lane road surrounded by green prairie.
out
▪ To achieve this aim involved driving out the small importers.
▪ There seems to be no good history antidote strong enough to drive out this bad and damaging chapter of history.
▪ Attacked and driven out by men, Giant Wolves have allied with Goblin tribes.
▪ Mattresses have been driven out and dumped in fields, sticks of broken furniture poke out of ditches and broken-backed fences contain nothing.
▪ Most of the downtown bread stores have been driven out of business by stagflation.
▪ She refused to be driven out, as she put it.
▪ The hundreds of worker bees who were also driven out got the minimum.
over
▪ Then they were driving over rough ground, loose stones popping under the tyres.
▪ Sometimes she drove over, even though she lived only two houses down.
▪ When it got dark I drove over and parked around the corner.
▪ Because I am interested in ruins, I decided to drive over to the town site.
▪ Although the vast majority are hardened by their loss, others have been driven over the edge of madness.
▪ I drove over to the house.
▪ Nevertheless I arranged to drive over to Strondonald the following Saturday afternoon and join him for tea.
▪ We just bundled her up and drove over.
round
▪ Now Evans got back into his car and drove round to Connon's house.
▪ I wondered, driving round the utterly deserted town.
▪ He was driven round the wrong way in a car in heavy rain.
▪ On the other hand, driving round at night, in the pouring rain, didn't appeal either.
▪ It drove round the corner and came back.
▪ They drove round a corner and the next thing they heard was gunfire.
▪ It don't look too hard, driving round and round.
▪ We drove round in circles for an hour and now we're back in the Butcher Building.
through
▪ He drove through and they shut behind him.
▪ Angel and I just drove through.
▪ But having driven through this sleepy Cambridgeshire backwater this week, I sincerely hope they were ousted from office and then shot.
▪ Not close and overgrown, crowded with foliage, not leafy limbs pressing in on you as you drove through.
▪ I weighed in on Monday, got blood pressured, then drove through blinding rain into the Guildford one-way system.
▪ Finally, a sight appeared through driving rain that lifted our hearts.
▪ Subjects were able to recall many of the junctions they had driven through, though the quality of this recall was variable.
▪ In fact, it was the ogre who owned the land that the king had just driven through.
up
▪ It means you don't stick to your word and you do end up driving an MR2.
▪ Higher demand for credit will drive up interest rates, making it more profitable for banks to supply more credit.
▪ S blocked steel imports, which drove up the cost of automobiles and everything else made from steel.
▪ Home, she thought dismally as she drove up the gravelly drive.
▪ Labor shortages were not going to be driving up wages for a long time to come.
▪ The negotiations had driven up the share prices, which was wonderful.
▪ After an important doctor's appointment, he drove up to Camp Pendleton to have the deer put down.
■ NOUN
car
▪ With some difficulty he got the car to start and drove slowly along the middle of the road.
▪ A car has driven off the small bridge and is slowly sinking in the river.
▪ Then he ran to his car and drove five miles to alert police and park rangers.
▪ Together they all escaped into waiting cars and were driven to London.
▪ I climbed into my car and drove off.
▪ More than the car you drive, worry about the tires it rolls upon.
▪ That fall a government car drove up while I was outside playing.
mile
▪ Then he ran to his car and drove five miles to alert police and park rangers.
▪ Because Southern Californians drive nearly 100 million miles every day in their cars - carefree perhaps but not cost-free.
▪ Takes minutes to drive 6 miles into centre of Bideford due to endlessness of roads and imbecilic road signs.
▪ He had never raced on an oval nor ever driven more than 200 miles in a race.
▪ Unfortunately, we sailed straight into a terrible storm, which drove us many miles eastward.
▪ They then drove fifteen miles before dumping him on the Buckinghamshire border.
▪ If he'd driven at 40 miles an hour he would have driven straight past.
miles
▪ After the board meeting, they drove fifty miles south of Auckland to meet Forster for lunch.
▪ Can you imagine driving 49 miles on a good, paved road in California and not seeing another car?
▪ I drove for miles and found nothing.
▪ If my kids need a tonsillectomy, do I drive 100 miles... to get a $ 60 discount?
▪ Because Southern Californians drive nearly 100 million miles every day in their cars - carefree perhaps but not cost-free.
▪ It was an unnecessary extravagance, since I would have to be driven a hundred miles back in a car.
▪ Takes minutes to drive 6 miles into centre of Bideford due to endlessness of roads and imbecilic road signs.
price
▪ As more assets are purchased, this will drive up their price.
▪ The company said aggressive pricing by Intel has driven down prices for so-called 486 chips.
▪ The herd moves into a market, driving up asset prices to absurd levels, then leaves when things look dicey.
▪ Tensions in the gulf drove prices at the time up to the present-day rate of $ 1. 46 per gallon.
▪ The negotiations had driven up the share prices, which was wonderful.
▪ And the shift from bonds to stocks would drive down the price of bonds and raise interest rates.
▪ Both sets of figures have been driven by the price of crude oil.
▪ Declining global production and rising demand drove prices higher.
road
▪ It will drive people on to the roads.
▪ For a while he drove the winding club roads, past the wrecked tennis courts, the empty swimming pool.
▪ It was, of course, laudable to clear the rookeries; essential to drive new roads through slum areas.
▪ When you drive in, the road narrows, the metal guard rail is replaced by a hand laid rock wall.
▪ I'd managed to drive over the terrible roads to a village or small town.
▪ We headed toward this, our third storm, by driving on a two-lane road surrounded by green prairie.
▪ Alternatively, it is claimed, such a system would be inequitable since poorer motorists would be driven off the roads.
▪ Nights we spent driving on the road.
town
▪ We drove out of town on the Dublin road, then swung up a lane, beside a Round Tower and monastic ruin.
▪ Let him put his suitcase in the trunk himself and then you drive him around town for a while.
▪ They would have been driven from the town and had to survive in unpopulated areas.
▪ Because I am interested in ruins, I decided to drive over to the town site.
▪ At just after eight last night he was being driven through the town centre.
▪ Instead I keep driving, get to town, time to kill, so I find a bartender to kill it.
▪ She rescues him, drives him out of town as dawn starts to break and leaves him in a wheatfield.
▪ Then we got into the van and drove back to town.
truck
▪ Though I might like to drive a truck one day.
▪ Bruce drove the truck behind us.
▪ The one Masklin had found in the Store, the one that had given him the idea for driving the Truck.
▪ Not to mention three more years of driving a truck.
▪ You're way too smart to be driving a truck.
▪ Her husband drove a truck, ferrying cotton workers from the highlands down to the coast and back.
vehicle
▪ The petite blonde star refused to go in his car and drove her own vehicle to his central London offices.
▪ Gritz and his team immediately drove in a recreational vehicle to the gate at Justus Township, Smith said.
▪ A typical agreement lasts three years and a disabled person can have more than one person insured to drive the vehicle.
▪ Each morning at 7, Schweitzer physicians and fieldworkers roll into the school compound in a white four-wheel-drive vehicle.
▪ Only foremen will drive company vehicles from now on.
▪ Most of its sales are Jeep Cherokees, which is a right-hand-drive vehicle.
▪ They were later seen wearing ski masks and driving the vehicles across the Denes area.
wedge
▪ The papal reform tended to drive a wedge between the educated, celibate higher clergy, and the rank and file.
▪ The deal drove a wedge between the president and fellow Republicans going into the 1992 elections.
▪ The men of violence want to drive a wedge between the forces of law and order and the people they protect.
▪ By criminalizing physician-assisted suicide, the Supreme Court has driven a criminal wedge between the dying and their doctors.
▪ They were thus driving the wedge further and further into a division of labour from which they were the first to suffer.
▪ The lawsuit also helped drive a wedge between Arpaio and Romley.
▪ Above all, it drove a wedge through the heart of the Conservative coalition.
▪ Considering the views of those proven achievers helps drive an even greater wedge between centralization and decentralization as a guiding organizational principle.
■ VERB
learn
▪ Denise says she is learning to drive.
▪ Grandma Shay also learned how to drive a car.
▪ Better than learning how to drive from your junior college coach.
▪ Martin learned to drive as his Skill project and improved on his swimming ability in the Physical Recreation section.
▪ However, if you listen to motivational and training cassettes while you are driving you will learn while you drive.
▪ We lived here for three years, and I learned to drive and to swim and to handle a boat.
▪ You know how I learned to drive?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be as pure as the driven snow
be driven/pushed from pillar to post
drive a wedge between sb
▪ Instead of driving a wedge between lovers, a child can expand and deepen that love.
▪ It will potentially drive a wedge between the Catholic H.E.
▪ She'd driven a wedge between herself and Guy.
▪ Such opposition to bureaucratic intrusion drove a wedge between many working-class people and the Fabian socialists.
▪ The deal drove a wedge between the president and fellow Republicans going into the 1992 elections.
▪ The lawsuit also helped drive a wedge between Arpaio and Romley.
▪ The men of violence want to drive a wedge between the forces of law and order and the people they protect.
▪ The papal reform tended to drive a wedge between the educated, celibate higher clergy, and the rank and file.
drive sb bonkers
▪ The noise from the train tracks used to drive us bonkers.
drive sb insane
▪ The noise from the construction project is driving us completely insane.
drive sb potty
drive sb round the bend
▪ Anyway, he drives Kate round the bend.
drive sb to distraction
▪ Mrs. Swanson was being driven to distraction by her mischievous son.
▪ And just like in the Kronenbourg ad she can't stop driving men to distraction.
▪ His constant invasion of her privacy was driving her to distraction.
▪ Or will his lack of ambition drive you to distraction?
▪ They lived inside a person's body and wriggled about until their presence drove him to distraction.
▪ Zoe talks her dad into letting her have driving lessons but she and Janine drive Garry to distraction.
drive/strike a hard bargain
▪ Don't become despondent just because it seems that your employer is keen to drive a hard bargain.
▪ It could also be that Reilly, who has never knowingly sold himself short, is driving a hard bargain.
▪ So he was right to drive a hard bargain.
▪ The farmer had grown used to billeting troops and drove a hard bargain.
driving ambition
▪ Talented but without driving ambition, Lehmann was during his last years handicapped by Parkinson's disease.
▪ Thus, with each page, she becomes increasingly unattractive and vainglorious - brains and spirit corrupted by driving ambition.
driving force
▪ First, I would disagree that the Endangered Species Act is the driving force behind conservation decisions.
▪ For the lawyer and the judge, a driving force at all times has been the avalanche of precedents.
▪ Listening to the Finale in particular, I was struck by the lack of driving force there is behind it in this performance.
▪ The driving force of the rain precluded conversation, sealed each of us in with his own thoughts.
▪ The current history line is the driving force of the payroll and is subject to very high validation checks.
▪ This possessiveness can be a driving force behind each craftsman and his task.
▪ Was it feasible, was it remotely possible, that the mutation had some sort of driving force?
driving rain/snow
▪ He feels like a fool in his virtual reality goggles as he trudges through the driving rain to the parked aircraft.
▪ In the face of the hard, driving snow, the stage slowed.
▪ Inside, peace reigns, even in driving rain.
▪ The air was full of driving rain as Jack climbed the hill.
▪ The darkness was so complete that no one could have seen her through the driving rain and almost instantly the house disappeared.
▪ The somber job was made more difficult by driving snow and subfreezing temperatures.
▪ There was continuous driving rain, and a cold that numbed me.
▪ They carried parasols and held them against the driving snow as they minced along in three-inch clogs.
hit/drive/hammer etc sth home
in the driving seat
▪ Back in the driving seat for the first time in 40 years the memories came flooding back.
▪ Bullock found himself in the driving seat after Davies was forced to play sideways out of a ditch.
▪ It was clear that, in the early stages of embryo development, the cytoplasm is in the driving seat.
▪ Kev sat with eyes closed in the driving seat.
▪ Once Smith's penalty goal had cut the Cambridge lead to two points Oxford appeared to be in the driving seat.
▪ So long as the receiver is in the driving seat neither the owners nor the unsecured creditors can do much to remove him.
▪ What in the world would the company be like in a few years' time if such people were in the driving seat?
needs must (when the devil drives)
run/go/drive etc like the clappers
▪ Little legs going like the clappers.
▪ Male speaker Inside you are going like the clappers because you are nervous and the tension is building up.
sales drive/campaign
▪ Both firms have announced small computers and plan big sales campaigns.
▪ Independent laboratory tests and a pilot sales campaign have confirmed that AirX works very successfully.
▪ The sales drive was interrupted by a legal hiccup.
▪ The spearhead of their sales drive was cooking and water heating, in which their major competitors were the gas boards.
▪ Valuable information such as company sales statistics or previous sales campaign studies can come from the client himself.
work/drive/run yourself into the ground
▪ But don't drive yourself into the ground.
▪ I've already explained to you how I've worked myself into the ground setting up the interview.
▪ I tried working myself into the ground, but I could be totally exhausted and still remember.
▪ Mitchell and White ran themselves into the ground and Nicky Summerbee tried everything he could to get a goal.
▪ They ran themselves into the ground, ran Chesterfield off the pitch, but they couldn't get another goal.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "How are you going to get there?" "I'm driving."
▪ "How do you get to work?" "I drive."
▪ "What car do you drive?" "A Fiat Brava."
▪ Drive carefully - the roads are very icy.
▪ Drive the nail into the wall at a downward angle.
▪ Driving a Rolls Royce into a swimming pool was one of the most dangerous stunts Crawford had to perform.
▪ At the trial, she claimed that years of abuse from her violent husband had driven her to kill him.
▪ Can you drive me to the airport next Friday?
▪ Gang activity has driven business away from downtown.
▪ Her mother's continual nagging drove her into running away from home.
▪ I'm learning to drive. In fact, I take my test next week.
▪ I learned how to drive when I was fifteen.
▪ Jeff drives a green Volvo.
▪ Jenny drove to the coast for the weekend.
▪ Many farmers claim that they have been driven to desperation by the latest blow to the industry.
▪ McGwire drove the ball into right field.
▪ My love of competition is what drives me.
▪ On our trip to Florida, I drove 300 miles in one day.
▪ She drove off without saying goodbye.
▪ She didn't really want to drive herself to the doctor, so I said I'd take her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He drove her home, leaving her down the block but watching her to make sure she got in okay.
▪ He said he would drive me home.
▪ It swirled and howled, driving the sleet and snow towards him alone.
▪ Several times they started to build a city, but they were always driven away by misfortunes or bad omens.
▪ The Protestant yeomanry still rode around the countryside intent on driving home the lessons of 1798: Rebellion will be punished!
▪ They completely failed and were driven to policies of austerity before they even got started.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
floppy
▪ Cleaning a floppy disk drive should be part of a regular maintenance procedure.
▪ The functions of memory, floppy drive and the hard disk are all explained.
▪ Apparently the machine's screen and the motherboard survived intact - but alas not the floppy drive.
▪ The hard and floppy drives are 3.5-inch affairs mounted on the side of the main drive cage.
▪ It has a floppy disk drive to load programmes, and a megabyte of memory to store them.
▪ The floppy drive supplied with the 320SLi is an external unit, which weighs about 10oz.
▪ Use disk head cleaning kits on floppy drives. 3.
▪ If both floppy drive lights are lit then one floppy connector is reversed.
hard
▪ You can specify any page you like, even one located on your own hard drive such as your Bookmark file.
▪ If you have an older machine, adding or replacing a hard drive can still be daunting.
▪ Who says that a removable hard drive deserves as much attention as battery life?
▪ Kuo said the virus attacks the spot where the layout of its hard drive is stored.
▪ But once hard drives broke the 100-megabyte barrier, that was no longer feasible.
▪ The hard disk drive is fast, too, with its own on-board cache.
▪ The other kind is disk storage, commonly on a hard drive or floppy disk.
▪ An unscrupulous programmer could write an ActiveX program designed to erase a hard drive or deposit a virus.
long
▪ Scottie loved travelling and behaved splendidly during the long drives and sailing periods.
▪ Road conditions were reasonably good up the long coastal drive north on National Route 3.
▪ Cattle were no longer taken on long drives, but were delivered by rail and cattle drives were then made illegal.
▪ The Chiefs led 7-0 when the Raiders began the second half with a long, promising drive.
▪ Then there is the travelling back and forth to shows, which can often entail a long drive.
▪ The 49ers answered both Baltimore touchdowns with long touchdown drives of their own following the kickoffs.
▪ I've got a long drive tomorrow.
▪ Glover thought his silent thoughts on Lucky as they made the long drive.
new
▪ Myth-3: New disk drive technology that doesn't improve seek time can be dismissed as ineffective.
▪ There was a new drive for the floppy disks that allowed each disk to store twice the information.
▪ All my shortcuts on the new drive refer to the C drive.
▪ Her new four-wheel drive was donated by a businessman.
▪ The full ban will be announced on Wednesday as part of a new health drive.
▪ In general though it is better to make your existing drive the master and the new drive the slave.
▪ This is the simplest way of laying a new path or drive.
▪ Stuck for clues. New drive for a lead in garden murder.
short
▪ No dinner is offered but there are many and varied eating establishments within a short drive.
▪ Emphasis on short selections during drive times.
▪ Unfortunately, this is not the case with many millions of people whose backache is worse after even a short drive.
▪ The Greco-Roman ruins, a short drive away, were thronged, but this amplified, rather than diminished, our visit.
▪ A short drive will take you to the Downs and Ashdown Forest.
▪ The park, a short drive south of downtown, is open from late May to early October.
▪ Woodbridge is 10 minutes away, several other courses within a short drive.
■ NOUN
disk
▪ Myth-3: New disk drive technology that doesn't improve seek time can be dismissed as ineffective.
▪ The faster the disk drive and controller, the faster the computer.
▪ However the chips on some machines may be located under disk drives or power supplies or other lumps of hardware.
▪ We learned how to hook up the printer and the disk drive.
▪ In use, the card acts just like a disk drive but it responds instantaneously.
▪ Then the disk drive whirred once more and the question mark evaporated.
▪ Security features include a locking disk drive cover, locking lid and cable clamps.
▪ Several schemes for disk drives were adopted and discarded.
recruitment
▪ The vicar is planning a recruitment drive in the New Year.
▪ Members needed: Darlington branch of the Friends of the Earth has launched a recruitment drive.
▪ The result was a big recruitment drive mounted by the Corporation across a wide parallel of jobs to fill the vacuums.
▪ A recruitment drive amongst blacks was however considered unlikely.
▪ Simon arrived at Bègles from Nice the year that Appriou started his recruitment drive.
▪ The campaign to lure doctors from abroad follows a similar recruitment drive for nurses.
▪ The day was organised by the Gloucestershire Regiment as part of a recruitment drive.
▪ Four unions have started a recruitment drive for new members after an eight year ban on union membership at the base.
test
▪ Have a word with your Mazda dealer and take a test drive down memory lane.
▪ The game demo lets you take a test drive.
▪ I had some memorable test drives after buying a dozen 6R4s when they were up for grabs at the factory.
▪ Automakers are chary about shipping base cars for test drives, because those cars sell poorly.
▪ Or even better, visit your Peugeot dealer and take a test drive in the new Peugeot 605.
▪ And he took me out in it for a test drive.
▪ But it couldn't cope with John's test drive.
▪ A test drive should convince you that Mazda are going places.
wheel
▪ This may explain its reluctance to come out of four wheel drive.
▪ Furthermore, I often took detours to avoid sand which the Land Rover had gone through using its four wheel drive.
▪ This is permanent four wheel drive with a free wheel overrun clutch in the front output to stop transmission wind up.
▪ Replace both so that you can use four wheel drive.
▪ Normally, this is done through land-#wheel drive to maintain consistent application.
▪ Additions to the range followed rapidly, all of which follow the same formula of transverse engine layout and front wheel drive.
▪ At present it is only two wheel drive.
■ VERB
hit
▪ Every time he hit a drive it ended up at least two time zones away.
▪ On the seventeenth, a short par-four curving to the left, Peter grunted after hitting a mammoth Whiplash drive.
▪ He hit a huge drive which rolled so far that it ended in deep rough.
▪ Why did he hit such a poor drive on twelve?
▪ After another Strachan run, Speed hit a first-time drive touched in by Imre Varadi for the third.
▪ Leadoff hitter Brett Hardy, a lefty, hit a line drive to left field.
▪ He hit his drive a good 340 yards to find the fairway, invisible from the tee.
▪ Peter hit a poor drive and a poor second, to the right of a nasty greenside bunker.
launch
▪ Members needed: Darlington branch of the Friends of the Earth has launched a recruitment drive.
▪ That announcement came as the Reform Party officially launched its own petition drive to win Texas ballot access in November.
▪ Sony launched a similar drive at the same time.
walk
▪ I could walk but instead I drive.
▪ They walked down the long drive to the little village outside the gates.
▪ He walked up the drive to the forecourt.
▪ Then they walk up the drive and knock on the front door.
▪ As they walked down the drive, Constance was surprised at how cool it was under the pines.
▪ The young couple were walking up the drive, arms about each other.
▪ No sign of Julie, but some one was walking up the drive towards the house.
▪ I really feel a foreigner and walk up the drive cursing the mud that has ruined my gold stilettos.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be as pure as the driven snow
drive sb bonkers
▪ The noise from the train tracks used to drive us bonkers.
drive sb insane
▪ The noise from the construction project is driving us completely insane.
drive sb potty
drive/strike a hard bargain
▪ Don't become despondent just because it seems that your employer is keen to drive a hard bargain.
▪ It could also be that Reilly, who has never knowingly sold himself short, is driving a hard bargain.
▪ So he was right to drive a hard bargain.
▪ The farmer had grown used to billeting troops and drove a hard bargain.
driving ambition
▪ Talented but without driving ambition, Lehmann was during his last years handicapped by Parkinson's disease.
▪ Thus, with each page, she becomes increasingly unattractive and vainglorious - brains and spirit corrupted by driving ambition.
driving force
▪ First, I would disagree that the Endangered Species Act is the driving force behind conservation decisions.
▪ For the lawyer and the judge, a driving force at all times has been the avalanche of precedents.
▪ Listening to the Finale in particular, I was struck by the lack of driving force there is behind it in this performance.
▪ The driving force of the rain precluded conversation, sealed each of us in with his own thoughts.
▪ The current history line is the driving force of the payroll and is subject to very high validation checks.
▪ This possessiveness can be a driving force behind each craftsman and his task.
▪ Was it feasible, was it remotely possible, that the mutation had some sort of driving force?
driving rain/snow
▪ He feels like a fool in his virtual reality goggles as he trudges through the driving rain to the parked aircraft.
▪ In the face of the hard, driving snow, the stage slowed.
▪ Inside, peace reigns, even in driving rain.
▪ The air was full of driving rain as Jack climbed the hill.
▪ The darkness was so complete that no one could have seen her through the driving rain and almost instantly the house disappeared.
▪ The somber job was made more difficult by driving snow and subfreezing temperatures.
▪ There was continuous driving rain, and a cold that numbed me.
▪ They carried parasols and held them against the driving snow as they minced along in three-inch clogs.
hit/drive/hammer etc sth home
needs must (when the devil drives)
run/go/drive etc like the clappers
▪ Little legs going like the clappers.
▪ Male speaker Inside you are going like the clappers because you are nervous and the tension is building up.
sales drive/campaign
▪ Both firms have announced small computers and plan big sales campaigns.
▪ Independent laboratory tests and a pilot sales campaign have confirmed that AirX works very successfully.
▪ The sales drive was interrupted by a legal hiccup.
▪ The spearhead of their sales drive was cooking and water heating, in which their major competitors were the gas boards.
▪ Valuable information such as company sales statistics or previous sales campaign studies can come from the client himself.
work/drive/run yourself into the ground
▪ But don't drive yourself into the ground.
▪ I've already explained to you how I've worked myself into the ground setting up the interview.
▪ I tried working myself into the ground, but I could be totally exhausted and still remember.
▪ Mitchell and White ran themselves into the ground and Nicky Summerbee tried everything he could to get a goal.
▪ They ran themselves into the ground, ran Chesterfield off the pitch, but they couldn't get another goal.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a scenic drive
▪ As part of the bank's efficiency drive substantial cuts are being made in the workforce.
▪ Brown was hired to lead a cattle drive north to the Canadian border.
▪ Greg certainly has the drive to become a good lawyer.
▪ Griffey hit a long, high drive to right field.
▪ He's clever enough, but he lacks drive.
▪ It's a beautiful day for a drive in the country.
▪ It's a two-hour drive to Hamilton from here.
▪ It's about a 20-minute drive into the city from here.
▪ Let's take a drive out to the farm.
▪ Put your disk in the "A" drive and click on "save."
▪ She was found dead at her home in Maple Drive.
▪ The beach is just a 20-minute drive from the city.
▪ The government's economy drive has failed to produce the expected savings.
▪ The government must continue this drive to find new, cleaner forms of energy.
▪ The Health Department launched an anti-smoking drive.
▪ The infantry made a drive deep into enemy territory.
▪ The male sex drive is not necessarily stronger than the female.
▪ The pickup has four-wheel drive.
▪ We need a new drive for investment in Britain's inner cities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bladder clenched, Thérèse limped down the drive behind her silent father.
▪ But where was the gear drive for the drill mechanism to come from?
▪ George played the entire first quarter and started the first scoring drive, which Klingler finished.
▪ I needed to realign my life, it said, not just my putt or my drive.
▪ If you have a low-profile computer without a free drive bay, you may have no choice but to replace the original.
▪ Not much to look at, because the front lawn and the drive to the Manor were a shambles.
▪ The drive takes twelve hours in all.
▪ The workers were laid off in July 1994 when Sprint abruptly closed the company amid a union organizing drive.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drive

Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), n.

  1. The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.

  2. A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.

  3. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

    The Murdstonian drive in business.
    --M. Arnold.

  4. In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.

  5. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river. [Colloq.]

    Syn: See Ride.

  6. a private road; a driveway.

  7. a strong psychological motivation to perform some activity.

  8. (Computers) a device for reading or writing data from or to a data storage medium, as a disk drive, a tape drive, a CD drive, etc.

  9. an organized effort by a group to accomplish a goal within a limited period of time; as, a fund-raising drive.

  10. a physiological function of an organism motivating it to perform specific behaviors; as, the sex drive.

  11. (Football) the period during which one team sustains movement of the ball toward the opponent's goal without losing possession of the ball; as, a long drive downfield.

  12. an act of driving a vehicle, especially an automobile; the journey undertaken by driving an automobile; as, to go for a drive in the country.

  13. the mechanism which causes the moving parts of a machine to move; as, a belt drive.

  14. the way in which the propulsive force of a vehicle is transmitted to the road; as, a car with four-wheel drive, front-wheel drive, etc.

Drive

Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), p. p. Driven. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

Drive

Drive \Drive\, v. i.

  1. To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.

    Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.
    --Dryden.

    Under cover of the night and a driving tempest.
    --Prescott.

    Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb.
    --Tennyson.

  2. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.

    The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn.
    --Byron.

    The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers.
    --Thackeray.

  3. 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.

  4. To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at.

    Let them therefore declare what carnal or secular interest he drove at.
    --South.

  5. To distrain for rent. [Obs.]

  6. (Golf) To make a drive, or stroke from the tee.

  7. to go from one place to another in a vehicle, serving as the operator of the vehicle; to drive[9] a vehicle from one location to another. He drove from New York to Boston in four hours.

    To let drive, to aim a blow; to strike with force; to attack. ``Four rogues in buckram let drive at me.''
    --Shak.

Drive

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.

  8. Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, etc., to propel (the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible throw.

  9. to operate (a vehicle) while it is on motion, by manipulating the controls, such as the steering, propulsion, and braking mechanisms.

Drive

Drive \Drive\, n.

  1. In various games, as tennis, cricket, etc., the act of player who drives the ball; the stroke or blow; the flight of the ball, etc., so driven.

  2. (Golf) A stroke from the tee, generally a full shot made with a driver; also, the distance covered by such a stroke.

    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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
drive

1690s, "act of driving," from drive (v.). Meaning "excursion by vehicle" is from 1785. Golfing sense of "forcible blow" is from 1836. Meaning "organized effort to raise money" is 1889, American English. Sense of "dynamism" is from 1908. In the computing sense, first attested 1963.

drive

Old English drifan "to drive, force, hunt, pursue; rush against" (class I strong verb; past tense draf, past participle drifen), from Proto-Germanic *driban (cognates: Old Frisian driva, Old Saxon driban, Dutch drijven, Old High German triban, German treiben, Old Norse drifa, Gothic dreiban "to drive"), from PIE root *dhreibh- "to drive, push." Original sense of "pushing from behind," altered in Modern English by application to automobiles. Related: Driving.\nMILLER: "The more you drive, the less intelligent you are." ["Repo Man," 1984]

Wiktionary
drive

n. 1 (senseid en self-motivation)self-motivation; ability coupled with ambition. 2 Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business. 3 An act of driving animals forward, to be captured, hunted etc. 4 (context military English) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective. 5 A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use. 6 A trip made in a motor vehicle. 7 A driveway. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on. 2 (context transitive intransitive English) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.

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WordNet
drive

  1. n. the act of applying force to propel something; "after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off" [syn: thrust, driving force]

  2. a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine; "a variable speed drive permitted operation through a range of speeds"

  3. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort" [syn: campaign, cause, crusade, movement, effort]

  4. a road leading up to a private house; "they parked in the driveway" [syn: driveway, private road]

  5. the trait of being highly motivated; "his drive and energy exhausted his co-workers"

  6. hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver; "he sliced his drive out of bounds" [syn: driving]

  7. the act of driving a herd of animals overland

  8. a journey in a vehicle driven by someone else; "he took the family for a drive in his new car" [syn: ride]

  9. a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire

  10. (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium

  11. a wide scenic road planted with trees; "the riverside drive offers many exciting scenic views" [syn: parkway]

  12. (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)

  13. [also: drove, driven]

drive

  1. v. operate or control a vehicle; "drive a car or bus"; "Can you drive this four-wheel truck?"

  2. travel or be transported in a vehicle; "We drove to the university every morning"; "They motored to London for the theater" [syn: motor]

  3. cause someone or something to move by driving; "She drove me to school every day"; "We drove the car to the garage"

  4. force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad" [syn: force, ram]

  5. to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly; "She is driven by her passion"

  6. cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders" [syn: repel, repulse, force back, push back, beat back] [ant: attract]

  7. compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment; "She finally drove him to change jobs"

  8. push, propel, or press with force; "Drive a nail into the wall"

  9. cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force; "drive the ball far out into the field"

  10. strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis" [syn: tug, labor, labour, push]

  11. move into a desired direction of discourse; "What are you driving at?" [syn: get, aim]

  12. have certain properties when driven; "This car rides smoothly"; "My new truck drives well" [syn: ride]

  13. work as a driver; "He drives a bread truck"; "She drives for the taxi company in Newark"

  14. move by being propelled by a force; "The car drove around the corner"

  15. urge forward; "drive the cows into the barn"

  16. proceed along in a vehicle; "We drive the turnpike to work" [syn: take]

  17. strike with a driver, as in teeing off; "drive a golfball"

  18. hit very hard and straight with the bat swinging more or less vertically; "drive a ball"

  19. excavate horizontally; "drive a tunnel"

  20. cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling; "The amplifier drives the tube"; "steam drives the engines"; "this device drives the disks for the computer"

  21. hunting: search for game; "drive the forest"

  22. hunting: chase from cover into more open ground; "drive the game"

  23. [also: drove, driven]

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Wikipedia
Drive

Drive or The Drive may refer to:

  • Driving, the act of controlling a vehicle
  • Road, an identifiable thoroughfare, route, way or path between two places
  • Road trip, a journey on roads
  • Driveway, a private road for local access to structures
  • Drive (charity), a campaign to collect items other than money
  • The Drive or Lake Shore Drive, an expressway in Chicago
Drive (Bic Runga album)

Drive is the debut solo album by New Zealand artist Bic Runga, released in August 1997 in New Zealand. The album was released the following year in Australia and Europe, and on 21 July 1998 in the United States.

This album went seven times platinum in New Zealand.

Drive (R.E.M. song)

"Drive" was the lead single and first track from American alternative rock band R.E.M.'s eighth studio album Automatic for the People in 1992. Although it was not as successful as previous lead singles " Losing My Religion," " Stand," or " The One I Love" in the United States, it became R.E.M.'s then second biggest hit on the UK Singles Charts, peaking at #11. It managed a peak of #28 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song did hit number one on the Modern Rock Tracks and number two on the Mainstream Rock Tracks.

Despite the success and popularity of the song, it was left out of the band's Warner Bros. Records "best of" compilation In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003. However, a live version of the song was included in the special edition two-disc set of In Time that included rarities, live versions, and B-sides. The version featured was the "funk" version, which has never been studio-recorded.

The song is included on the 2003 live DVD Perfect Square, the 2007 live CD/DVD R.E.M. Live, and the 2009 live CD Live at The Olympia (and its accompanying DVD This Is Not a Show). This song was also sampled in the song " Space Bound" by Eminem on his album Recovery.

B-side "Winged Mammal Theme" is a re-working of the " Batman Theme" originally intended to appear in Batman Returns; the song went unused in the film's final version.

Drive (The Cars song)

"Drive" is a 1984 song by The Cars, the third single from the band's Heartbeat City album released in March 1984 and their biggest international hit. Written by Ric Ocasek, the track was sung by bassist Benjamin Orr and produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange with the band. Upon its release, "Drive" became The Cars' highest charting single in the United States, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart; on the Adult Contemporary chart, the song went to No. 1. It reached No. 4 in West Germany, No. 6 in Canada, No. 5 (No. 4 on re-entry in 1985) in the UK and No. 3 (No. 5 on re-entry in 1985) in Ireland.

The song is associated with the July 1985 Live Aid event, where it was performed by Benjamin Orr during the Philadelphia event; previously, the song was used as the background music to a montage of clips depicting the contemporaneous Ethiopian famine during the London event, which was introduced by English musician David Bowie. Following the concert it was re-released in the UK and peaked at No. 4 in August 1985. Proceeds from the sales of the re-released song raised nearly £160,000 for the Band Aid Trust: Ocasek presented the charity's trustee Midge Ure with a cheque for the amount while he was in London in November 1986 promoting his solo album This Side of Paradise.

In a retrospective review of the single, AllMusic journalist Donald A. Guarisco praised the song for being "a gorgeous ballad that matches heartfelt songwriting to an alluring electronic soundscape. The music reflects the lyrical tone with a lovely melody that rises and falls in a soothing yet sad fashion."

Drive (Incubus song)

"Drive" is a song recorded by American rock band Incubus. It was released in November 2000 as a single from their third album Make Yourself. It is considered the band's biggest hit and breakthrough single, eventually reaching the top of Billboard's modern rock charts on March 3, 2001 and #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 28. In 2001, "Drive" won Billboard's award for Modern Rock Single of the Year. Director Bill Draheim documented the making of "Drive". 'Save Me from my Half-Life Drive' is the result of that edited EPK footage.

The song is featured in the video games Donkey Konga 2 and Guitar Hero Live in addition to the film Surf's Up.

Drive (charity)

In charitable organizations, a drive is a collection of items for people who need them, such as clothing, used items, books, canned food, cars, etc. Some drives are that people go through their inventory, bag the items up, and put them in a giveaway bin, or charitable organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, The Salvation Army come to the house and pick them up. They then put the items in their thrift stores or, if they don't have any, sell them to thrift stores to raise money for their organization.

Drive (For Daddy Gene)

"Drive (For Daddy Gene)" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer-songwriter Alan Jackson. It was released in January 2002 as the second single from his album, Drive. It reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks in May 2002 and also peaked at number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Drive (1997 film)

Drive is a 1997 action film starring Mark Dacascos, Kadeem Hardison, Tracey Walter, John Pyper-Ferguson, Brittany Murphy, and Masaya Kato. The film was directed by Steve Wang with stunt work and fight choreography done by Koichi Sakamoto. Like most of Wang's films at the time, Drive went straight-to-video but received a cult following afterwards.

Drive (Star Trek: Voyager)

__NOTOC__ "Drive" is the 149th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the third episode of the seventh season.

Drive (2007 TV series)

Drive is an American action drama television series created by Tim Minear and Ben Queen, produced by Minear, Queen, and Greg Yaitanes, and starring Nathan Fillion. Four episodes aired on the Fox Network in April 2007. Two unaired episodes were later released directly to digital distribution.

The series is set against the backdrop of an illegal cross-country automobile road race, focusing on the willing and unwilling competitors and, as the plot develops, the unseen puppet masters who sponsor the race. Minear has described the show's thematic tone by saying "a secret, illegal, underground road race can be anything from Cannonball Run to The Game to North by Northwest to Magnolia-on-wheels. Ours is all those things."

Firefly and Serenity star Nathan Fillion, a longtime friend of series creator Tim Minear, plays the lead role of Alex Tully. Ivan Sergei played Tully in the unaired pilot.

Drive was the first TV show in history which had a live Twitter session during an episode. The account @foxdrive still exists.

The show premiered on April 13, 2007 on CTV in Canada. It debuted in the United States on April 15, 2007 on Fox, and moved into its regular time slot on Mondays the next day; in that slot it faced stiff competition from NBC's Deal or No Deal and ABC's Dancing with the Stars. On April 25, Fox canceled Drive after only four episodes had aired. The series has not yet been released to international markets (with the exception of Canada) or on DVD.

Drive (Shannon Noll song)

"Drive" is a pop/rock song written by Phil Thornalley and Bryan Adams, and was the second single released by Australian singer-songwriter Shannon Noll on 19 April 2004. The single, the second to be lifted from Shannon's 2004 debut album That's What I'm Talking About was Shannon's second top 10 hit, debuting and peaking at number 4 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. The single was certified Platinum with sales of 70,000.

The track, originally demoed by Bryan Adams, was sent to Shannon for inclusion on his debut album. Adams later asked Noll to support him on his Australian tour in 2004 and the pair became friends. It was rumoured that Noll was to collaborate with Adams on a track for his second album " Lift", however it is unknown if the pair worked together.

Drive (Client song)

"Drive" is a song by English electronic group Client, released as the third single from their third studio album, Heartland. It reached number ninety in Germany. The song was used in a club scene in the beginning of the 2008 film The Ramen Girl, along with " Lights Go Out".

Drive (Alan Jackson album)

Drive is the tenth studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson. Released in 2002 on Arista Nashville, the album produced Jackson's highest-debuting single on the Hot Country Songs charts in the Number One hit "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)", a ballad written in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. "Drive (For Daddy Gene)", "Work in Progress", and "That'd Be Alright" were also released as singles, peaking at #1, #3, and #2, respectively, on the same chart; "Designated Drinker" also reached #44 without officially being released. In addition, all four released singles crossed over to pop radio and cracked the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #28, #28, #35 and #29, respectively

Drive (The X-Files)

"Drive" is the second episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on November 15, 1998. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Drive" earned a Nielsen household rating of 11.0, being watched by 18.5 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received largely positive reviews from television critics.

The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In the episode, Mulder is trapped in a car by a seemingly deranged man, and Scully races to determine if the man is suffering from a deadly illness—and if Mulder is in danger of becoming the next victim of some sort of government conspiracy.

The episode was written by Vince Gilligan, directed by Rob Bowman, and featured a guest appearance by Bryan Cranston. Gilligan cast Cranston to play the antagonist because he felt he could successfully humanize the role. Cranston's success in "Drive" later led to his casting as Walter White in Gilligan's AMC series Breaking Bad.

Drive (Steve Wariner album)

Drive is the title of a studio album released in 1993 by American country music artist Steve Wariner. It was his second release for Arista Records. The album produced four chart singles on the Billboard country charts in "If I Didn't Love You" at #8, "Drivin' and Cryin'" at #24, "It Won't Be over You" at #18, and the title track at #63.

Drive (Béla Fleck album)

Drive is an album by American banjoist Béla Fleck. The album was produced toward the end of Fleck's New Grass Revival career and before the Flecktones were formed and included an all-star list of bluegrass performers.

Drive (Robert Palmer album)

Drive is a 2003 album by British musician Robert Palmer, his fourteenth solo studio album, and his last album before his death.

Drive was critically hailed as the grittiest and most heartfelt album of Palmer's career. Initially approached by guitarist Carl Carlton to contribute to the 2001 Robert Johnson tribute album Hellhound on My Trail, for which Palmer recorded " Milk Cow's Calf Blues" with Carlton on guitars, Palmer was then invited by Faye Dunaway to provide the soundtrack to her 2001 directorial debut The Yellow Bird, set in Mississippi and New Orleans during the 1940s and 1950s. Palmer took both signs as a good omen, and the impetus for Drive was born. After more thoroughly researching this particular genre of music, Palmer assembled a list of fifty possible tracks, and then began the arduous task of whittling that list down to a manageable set of twelve. The selections from Drive can best be described as a loose collection of both standard and contemporary blues compositions (Robert Johnson, Little Willie John, Keb' Mo'), with a smattering of other genres, including folk (Nicolai Dunger) and calypso (Mighty Sparrow), prompting Palmer to call the end result "a gut-buckety swamp thing." The recording and mixing of Drive took place in both Logic Studios ( Milan, Italy) and Palmer's home studio ( Lugano, Switzerland). Because of the satisfaction and enthusiasm having recorded the initial twelve songs, Palmer decided to cut three more tracks ("29 Ways [To My Baby's Door]," "It Hurts Me Too," "Stupid Cupid"), this time at the Sphere in London.

The album peaked at #10 on the US Blues albums chart.

Drive (band)

Drive was a five-piece progressive metal, power metal, heavy metal, and hard rock band formed in Houston, Texas, United States by Rick Chavez. They released two albums, Characters in Time (1988) and Diablero (1992).

Drive formed in Houston, Texas, in the mid-1980s when its members were barely out of high school, but the band soon moved to Los Angeles, which had become the center of the hard rock scene. After winning a radio contest with their song “I Need The Nights”, Drive landed on the Best of the West compilation released by Rampage Records, the hard rock division of Rhino Records. Rampage signed the band, and in July 1988 Drive released their debut LP, Characters in Time. The album received good reviews from the industry’s hard rock press, including the coveted 5 “K” rating from Kerrang! Magazine. The album also received airplay from hard rock stations around the country, including the KNAC in Los Angeles.

At the beginning of the next decade the band left Rampage and signed with Zoo Records, a new BMG label that would later become famous for the band Tool. In 1992 the band released Diablero to rave reviews from the metal underground.

A shake-up at the label along with the dawn of the metal-killing “grunge” scene left the album without much of a push, and the band’s recording career was put on hold as the band members moved back to Texas.

According to a review of Characters in Time, “Vocalist David Taylor gives off an incredibly awesome performance” and “the next driving force behind this release outside of the powerful vocals is definitely the guitar work of Chavez” which goes “ catchy rockin’ rhythms to rippingly fast riffs”

On June 25, 2009, while driving along a San Antonio interstate, lead singer David Taylor lost control of his vehicle due to a tire malfunction, and crashed. He was airlifted to an area hospital where he died of his injuries five days later. He was 44.”

Drive (Scott Grimes album)

Drive is the third album by American actor/singer/songwriter Scott Grimes, released in 2010.

Drive (2011 film)

Drive is a 2011 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. The screenplay by Hossein Amini is based on the 2005 novel of the same name by James Sallis. It stars Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, Oscar Isaac and Albert Brooks.

Like the book, the film is about an unnamed Hollywood stunt driver (Gosling) who moonlights as a getaway driver. After he becomes attracted to a female neighbor (Mulligan) whose husband (Isaac) owes money to local gangsters, he is drawn deeper into the dangerous underworld. Prior to its September 2011 release, it had been shown at a number of film festivals. At the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Drive was praised and received a standing ovation. Winding Refn won the festival's Best Director Award for the film. Reviews from critics have been positive, and many drew comparisons to work from previous eras. The film was nominated for Best Film and Best Direction at the 65th British Academy Film Awards.

Drive (golf)

In golf stroke mechanics, a drive, also known as a tee shot, is a long-distance shot played from the tee box, intended to move the ball a great distance down the fairway towards the green.

Drive (Poisonblack album)

Drive is the fifth studio album by the Finnish gothic metal band Poisonblack. It was released on 27 April 2011 in Europe by Century Media Records.

Drive (Anneke van Giersbergen album)

Drive is the fifth studio album by Anneke van Giersbergen.

Drive (Gareth Emery album)

Drive is the second studio album produced by electronic dance music artist Gareth Emery, released on April 1, 2014. The album is the follow up to Gareth's first studio album Northern Lights, released in 2010. The album features vocals from Christina Novelli who also sung on Concrete Angel, Emery's most successful single to date, the official video of which has had over 26 million views on YouTube. Also featured are Gavin Beach, Ben Gold, LJ Ayrten, Asia Whiteacre, Krewella, Bo Bruce and Emery's sister Roxanne Emery.

Drive (web series)

/DRIVE is an automotive network and popular YouTube channel with web video series dedicated to car reviews, driving adventures, motorsports coverage, and detailed looks at the manufacturing of high-end cars. Launched on January 2, 2012, /DRIVE was the first new series to air as part of Google's original content initiative. Michael Spinelli of Jalopnik.com, Gumball 3000 veteran Alex Roy of Team Polizei 144, Matt Farah of TheSmokingTire.com, and Chris Harris formerly of AutoCar and EVO magazine, were part of the initial launch season and remain key contributors to the /DRIVE channel.

/DRIVE comes out of Fast Lane Daily. "Well the the the early days of this whole operation comes from of course Fast Lane Daily" - JF Musial. Fast Lane Daily was developed by Next New Networks and Autostream.

According to its YouTube channel description, the overall goal of /DRIVE is to provide quality web content that "celebrates the culture of cars, taking the audience on the road, to the races, to the factories, to the studios -- and to other places car lovers have always wanted to go, but never had the chance". The diverse lineup of /DRIVE series offers video content for any type of car lover, from test drives to factory tours to honest racing insight.

Drive (Cheyenne Jackson song)

"Drive" is a song by American actor and singer Cheyenne Jackson from his album I'm Blue, Skies. Although Cheyenne Jackson has released theatrical music releases, this is his first non-theatrical single release. "Drive" was produced by Thomas "Tawgs" Salter and written by Cheyenne and Stephen "Stevie" Aiello. A music video was released, also his first ever music video.

About the meaning of the song, Cheyenne says:

I wanted to write a song about keeping forward momentum in your life, and having the strength to leave a situation that you know in your heart is bad for you. It ended up being melancholy, but ultimately hopeful and optimistic, just like me. I felt like my head was exploding, because not only did I know that this was exactly what I was supposed to be doing, it kind of changed my perspective on everything. The songs started pouring out of me, and I’m more proud of this work than any part I’ve ever done.

Drive was also remixed by Conair and appears as an additional 6:47 track on Jackson's album I'm Blue, Skies as "Drive (Conair mix)".

Drive (Miley Cyrus song)

"Drive" is a song by American singer Miley Cyrus for her fourth studio album Bangerz (2013). It was written and produced by Mike Will Made It and P-Nasty, with additional songwriting provided by Samuel Jean and Cyrus. The song is a dubstep and EDM influenced track, and discusses the difficulties in ending a romantic relationship; it has been widely speculated to have been inspired by Cyrus' former fiancé Liam Hemsworth.

"Drive" received generally favorable reviews from contemporary music critics, who complimented its overall production and Cyrus' vocal delivery. Despite not having been released as a single, it peaked at number 87 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Cyrus first performed the song during her episode of MTV Unplugged in January 2014, and has also performed it during her ongoing Bangerz Tour.

Drive (Russ Freeman album)

Drive is an album by the American guitarist Russ Freeman, released in 2002 for the Peak label. This album reached #7 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz chart.

Drive (2016 TV series)

Drive is a British reality game show that aired on ITV between 5 April 2016 and 3 May 2016. It was hosted by Vernon Kay with Jason Plato as the pundit and James Allen as the commentator. It was confirmed following the end of the first series that it had been cancelled due to poor ratings.

Drive (Amerie EP)

Drive is the first extended play (EP) by American recording artist Ameriie. It was released for online streaming and purchase on May 20, 2016 through her independent recording label Feeniix Rising Entertainment. It contains production by Mike City and Focus..., as well as long-time collaborators The Buchanans and Rich Harrison. Lead single "Out Loud" was released on March 16, 2015. It serves as her first musical offering since her fourth studio album, In Love & War (2009). The EP was recorded during the same time her upcoming studio albums Cymatika, Vol. 1 and BILI. Her following EP will be released in July 2016.

The EP was named one of the best R&B albums of 2016 by Rolling Stone.

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Usage examples of "drive".

Lou, I want you to drive over to the high school and ask whoever is in the office to loan a copy of the high school yearbook for He squinted in thought for a moment.

August 1998 As she drove away from Manchester University, Catherine felt the hot buzz that burned in her veins whenever she knew she was on the verge of a major story.

One regiment was almost entirely destroyed, the other pressed forward as far as the abattis, fighting so desperately that Daun was obliged to bring up large reinforcements before he could drive the survivors back.

He now shall know I can produce a man, 150 Of female seed, far abler to resist All his solicitations, and at length All his vast force, and drive him back to Hell-- Winning by conquest what the first man lost By fallacy surprised.

Deputy Dave Saunders had an iron grip on the wheel and a determined set in his jaw as he drove his squad car through Abney, lights flashing, and veered onto Service Road 221.

Angela Abruzzi made a smooth slide of her hand on the leather steering wheel of her BMW, turning it up the drive to the rambling Victorian house she had once called home.

Inhaling a ragged, brutal breath, using every ounce of will bred into him by the harsh, Absarokee tradition, Hazard crushed down the overwhelming emotions driving him to take this woman and very deliberately pulled her arms from around his neck and stepped away from her.

Dick drove her into the city in almost unbroken silence and left her at the great doors of the Grantham, abustle with a dozen lackeys in purple livery.

A planet abides that life which accepts its whims, but man it rejects, man it seeks to obliterate, pitting the monumental force of its instability against that pitiful life form, driving man forth to seek the stars or die.

And all day long they appeased the god with song, raising a ringing hymn to the distant archer god who drives away the plague, those young Achaean warriors singing out his power, and Apollo listened, his great heart warm with joy.

Above all, with his sense of urgency and unrelenting drive, Adams made the Declaration of Independence happen when it did.

As once he had been determined to drive a declaration of independence through Congress, or to cross the Pyrenees in winter, so Adams was determined now to live to see one last Fourth of July.

Petrie drove northwards up the Atlantic Coast of New Jersey with Adelaide fast asleep beside him, and Prickles singing softly to herself in the back.

She was certainly no beauty, but Adele had seen her spiky drive make an impression in gatherings of other women who were better looking in a merely physical sense.

Octavian learned that Antony had changed his mind about driving for Rome through Campania and turned to follow his first three legions up the Adriatic coast to Italian Gaul and Decimus Brutus, he decided to march on Rome.