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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | 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. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. | |
Crosswords: DRIVE AT |
| English words defined with "DRIVE AT": To let drive. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DRIVE AT": booster drive, boot disk ♦ full-face blast. (references) |
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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 using "DRIVE AT": drive at a full lick. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 face aluzie la (advert to, imply), ţinti la (draw a bead on). (various references) склонить (dispose, incline). (various references) sugerisati (connote, suggest), smerati (allude, compass, intend, plan), ciljati (aim, allude, gun for). (various references) mena (allow, deem, intend, mean, opine, suppose, think). (various references) demek istemek (connote, get at, mean, purport), kastetmek (aim, aim at, allude, design, imply, intend, mean, purpose, refer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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