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Drive Around

Definition: Drive Around

Drive Around

Verb

1. Drive someone in a vehicle.

2. Drive without any particular aim; "we were driving around in the countryside on a fine Sunday morning".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Drive Around

Synonym: chauffeur (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Drive Around

English words defined with "drive around": cruise ♦ To ride to hounds. (references)

Modern Usage: Drive Around

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Is it fair that Pluto has to wear a leash and sleep in a doghouse while Goofy, who is also a dog, gets to drive around in a car and play golf with Mickey? (Even Stevens; writing credit: Sarah Jane Cunningham)
Lyrics	She'll watch me drive around her block (Wild Horses; performing artist: Garth Brooks)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Spoken Usage: Drive Around

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	Go drive around in the UK and look at the beautiful private hospitals.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Drive Around

Language		Translations for "drive around"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		jet kolem. (various references)

German		herumfahren (go about, go around, ride about, ride around, round on, spin around, spin round, swing round, touring, travel about, turn round quickly). (various references)

Hungarian		körbevezet (drive round, lead round, show round). (various references)

Pig Latin		ivedray arounday

Russian		разъезжать (drive about, go, ride). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		voziti oko, provozati se (take a drive). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Drive Around

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-i-n-o-r-r-u-v"
	-3 letters: ordained, ordainer, reordain, unvaried.
	-4 letters: adenoid, adorned, adorner, android, aneroid, arrived, avodire, avoided, avoider, dandier, daunder, dourine, drained, drainer, duodena, invaded, invader, naevoid, neuroid, overdid, overran, overrun, radioed, randier, ravined, readorn, redound, rondeau, rondure, rounded, rounder, ruddier, runover, unaided, unaired, underdo, undried, uranide.
	-5 letters: adored, adorer, ardour, arider, around, arrive, dander, darned, darner.
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Alternative Orthography: Drive Around

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 72 69 76 65 41 72 6F 75 6E 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01110010 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01000001 01110010 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#105 &#118 &#101 &#32 &#65 &#114 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0069 0076 0065 0041 0072 006F 0075 006E 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38847588712358481878070

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern

5. Quotations: Spoken
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography

9. Bibliography

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