DRIVE AT

  

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DRIVE AT

Specialty Definition: DRIVE AT

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Drive at (To). What are you driving at? What do you want to prove? What do you want me to infer? We say the "wind drove against the sails," i.e. rushed or moved violently against them. Falstaff tells us of "four rogues in buckram [who] let drive at him," where at means against or towards. "What are you driving at?" is, against or towards what object are you driving or moving?. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Synonyms within Context: DRIVE AT

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Imagination

Verb: mean, signify, express; import, purport; convey, imply, breathe, indicate, bespeak, bear a sense; tell of, speak of; touch on; point to, allude to; drive at; involve; (latency); declare; (affirm).

Intention

Bid for, labor for; be after, aspire after, endeavor after; be at, aim at, drive at, point at, level at, aspire at; take aim; set before oneself; study to.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: DRIVE AT

English words defined with "DRIVE AT": To let drive. (references)
Specialty definitions using "DRIVE AT": booster drive, boot diskfull-face blast. (references)

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Commercial Usage: DRIVE AT

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Books

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Photo Album: DRIVE AT

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Scotch (Scot's) Broom, a noxious weed, (Cytisus scoparius) along the Rogue River Drive at Shady Cove. Credit: Terry Tuttle.

Town & country making another drive at the great question.--No go!!. Credit: Library of Congress.

River Drive at Ormond, Fla. Credit: Library of Congress.

Date Palm Drive at Mound Grove, near Ormond, Fla. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expression: DRIVE AT

Expression using "DRIVE AT": drive at a full lick. Additional references.

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Modern Translation: DRIVE AT

Language Translations for "DRIVE AT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

dua të them, nënkuptoj (implicate, intend, understand). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

преследвам (bait, chase, chivy, drive, haunt, hunt down, lay siege to, martyr, obsess, persecute, prosecute, pursue, push, run, siege, tag). (various references)

   

Czech

  

mířit (aim at, drive, head for, point, steer). (various references)

   

German

  

zielen auf (aim at, target, to aim at), hinauswollen auf, anspielen (allude, get at, hint, hint at, insinuate, kick off, open, pass to, play the ball, to allude). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σκοπεύω (aim, intend, intend to, mean, purport, purpose, train on), εννοώ (comprehend, conceive, mean, purport, realize, understand). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

céloz valamire (hint at, refer to). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"っ飛ばす (to beat, to drive at full speed, to knock, to let go off, to not partake, to strike). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぶっとばす (to beat, to drive at full speed, to knock, to let go off, to not partake, to strike). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ivedray atay

   

Romanian

  

face aluzie la (advert to, imply), ţinti la (draw a bead on). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

склонить (dispose, incline). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sugerisati (connote, suggest), smerati (allude, compass, intend, plan), ciljati (aim, allude, gun for). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

mena (allow, deem, intend, mean, opine, suppose, think). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

demek istemek (connote, get at, mean, purport), kastetmek (aim, aim at, allude, design, imply, intend, mean, purpose, refer). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DRIVE AT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-r-t-v"

-1 letter: advert, airted, dative, divert, tirade, varied.

-2 letters: aider, aired, aiver, avert, dater, davit, deair, derat, diver, drave, drive, irade, irate, rated, raved, redia, retia, rived, rivet, tared, terai, tired, trade, trave, tread, triad, tried, vitae.

-3 letters: adit, aide, airt, arid, aver, avid, dare, dart, date, dear, deva, diet, dire, dirt, dita, dite, diva.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-r-t-v"
 

+1 letter: derivate, deviator, durative, variated, vibrated.

 

+2 letters: adversity, adverting, advertise, advertize, depravity, derivates, deviators, deviatory, duratives, radiative, travailed.

 

+3 letters: adsorptive, advertised, advertiser, advertises, advertized, advertizes, animadvert, decorative, derivation, derivative, derivatize, derogative, detractive, divaricate, driveshaft, drivetrain, duumvirate, federative, gravitated, incurvated, indurative, innervated, outrivaled, ovaritides, privatised, privatized, revalidate, stravaiged, travestied, variegated.

 

+4 letters: abbreviated, adumbrative, adventuring, adventurism, adventurist, adversative, adversities, advertisers, advertising, advertizing, advertorial, animadverts, deactivator, decemvirate, declarative, deformative, degradative, denervating, denervation, denigrative, depravation, depravities, deprivation, derivations, derivatives, derivatized, derivatizes, deverbative, distractive, divaricated, divaricates, diverticula, driveshafts, drivetrains, duumvirates, evidentiary, eviscerated, gravidities, inadvertent, interleaved, interweaved, invigorated, irradiative, livetrapped, maidservant, outrivalled, overtrading, overtrained, preadaptive, predicative, privateered, radioactive, reactivated, reeducative, relativized, remotivated, revalidated, revalidates, revictualed, revitalised, revitalized, trivialised, trivialized, underactive, valedictory, veratridine, vineyardist, vituperated, vociferated.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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