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Definition: Drive |
DriveNoun1. The act of applying force to propel something; "after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off". 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". 4. A road leading up to a private house; "they parked in the driveway". 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". 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". 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". 12. : a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash). Verb1. 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". 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". 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". 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 the cows into the stable". 9. Cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force; "drive the ball far out into the field". 10. : exert oneself, 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". 11. : move into a desired direction of discourse; "What are you driving at?". 12. : have certain properties when driven; "This car rides smoothly"; "My new truck drives well". 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. : proceed along in a vehicle; "We drive the turnpike to work". 16. : golf: strike with a driver, as in teeing off; "drive a golfball". 17. : cricket: hit very hard and straight with the bat swinging more or less vertically: "drive a ball". 18. : mining: excavate horizontally; "drive a tunnel". 19. : 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". 20. : hunting: search for game; "drive the forest". 21. : hunting: chase from cover into more open ground; "drive the game". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Note: Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), transitive verb. [imperfect Drove(dr[=o]v), formerly Drave(dr[=a]v); past participle Driven(dr[i^]v'n); Driving.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Business | As the most compelling inner determinants of human behavior, -- are also called drives, urges, impulses, needs, wants, tensions, and willful cravings. Source: European Union. (references) |
Computing | A mechanical plus electrical/electronic facility required to issue basic commands to a device such as a tape transport or a floppy disk. It may include several motors for rotation, head positioning, etc. , and position sensors, control circuits, lights and switches. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | An electronic device that controls torque, speed and/or position of an AC or brushless motor. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A method of linking an electric motor to the machine driving it, or a generator to the prime mover driving it. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | The controlled moving of livestock under immediate human direction. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A body of round timber, loose(i. e. not in bundles or rafts), in the process of being floated down a waterway from forest to mill or shipping point. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Health | A state of internal activity of an organism that is a necessary condition before a given stimulus will elicit a class of responses; e.g., a certain level of hunger (drive) must be present before food will elicit an eating response. (references) |
Literature | Drive (Anglo-Saxon drif-an.) To drive a good bargain. To exact more than is quite equable. "Heaven would no bargain for its blessings Drive."Dryden: Astræa Redux, i 137. To drive a roaring trade. To be doing a brisk business. The allusion is to a coachman who drives so fast that his horses pant and roar for breath. To drive the swine through the hanks of yarn. To spoil what has been painfully done, to squander thrift. In Scotland, the yarn wrought in the winter (called the gude-wife's thrift) is laid down by the burn-side to bleach, and is peculiarly exposed to damage from passing animals. Sometimes a herd of pigs driven along the road will run over the hanks, and sometimes they will stray over them from some neighbouring farm-yard and do a vast amount of harm. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | A mechanism which allows the transmission of energy; e. g. a transmission shafting, a belt drive, or a gearing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | An inherent tendency. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A sudden, often unreasoning, determination to perform some act. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. To excavate horizontally, or at an inclination, as in a drift, adit, or entry. Distinguished from sinking and raising. b. A tunnel or level in or parallel to and near a mineralized lode or vein, as distinct from a crosscut, which only gives access normal to the lode c. An underground passage for exploration, development, or working of an orebody d. To advance or sink drive pipe or casing through overburden or broken rock formation by chopping, washing, or hammering with a drive hammer orby a combination of all three procedures. (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Drive, Ride. Some confusion exists in the use of the words drive and ride. In England the distinction is made of applying ride to going on horseback and drive to going in a carriage, whether you ride or drive. That usage is not closely followed in this country. He who guides the horse drives; the rest of the company ride. The noun and participial forms are more excusable than the verb. "Jones asked me to drive with him this afternoon." But as Jones expects to do the driving himself, the speaker should have said, "Jones asked me to take a ride," or "go driving," or "take a drive," etc. Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Disk storage is a group of data storage mechanisms for computers; data is transferred to planar surfaces or disks for temporary or permanent storage. In the early 1960s single data bits were stored as magnetic charges in magnetic core memory. The scientists at IBM in San Jose, California successfully created a rotating drum that was coated in a magnetically polarizable film that could be used to store data by changing and sensing magnetic polarization. The drum was superseded by disks, as the lower mass and inertia allowed smaller and lighter devices.In musical and audio data storage, the first devices were also drum shaped, called phonograph cylinders, which were popularized by Thomas Edison. In the 1910s these were replaced as the dominant medium of sound recording by analogue disc records, commonly called gramophone records (in British English) or phonograph records (in American English). From the 1950s through the 1980s, audio recordings were also done on magnetic tape media of several types, although the vinyl record remained the most popular medium for home use. These were mostly replaced by compact disc technology, where the data is recorded in a digital format as optical information. This compact disc technology has been widely accepted, and data storage, using writable compact disks or CD-R devices is very common.
The random-access, low-density storage of disks has historically been complemented by the sequential-access high density storage provided by magnetic tape. Vigorous innovation in disk storage technology, coupled with less vigorous innovation in tape storage, has reduced the density and cost per bit gap between disk and tape, reducing the importance of tape as a complement to disk.
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Appropriate for this page would be things common to all disk based storage devices, that is a discussion of rotation (CLV, CAV). Low level formatting tracks, sectors, cylinders, platters, heads. rotational delay, seek time.
- floppy disk
- hard disk
- compact disc
See also : Multiple disk spanning.
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The term drive has several common meanings; did you mean:
- Computer storage
- Driving
- Motivation
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Driving involves controlling a vehicle, usually a motor vehicle such as a truck, bus, motorcycle, or car (for bicycles and mounted animals and, at least in the UK, motorcycles, the corresponding activity is called riding).In rail transport steering is done by controlling the switch points; this can be done:
Driving consists of knowing how to operate the mechanisms which control the speed and direction (which in technical terminology are both components of the velocity), and the braking of the vehicle, but especially how to do so safely.
- by other personnel than the driver, often remotely from a traffic control point
- by the driver from his or her position
- by the driver getting out and operating the switch manually.
The skill of safe driving is necessary to avoid collisions, which kill many thousands of people annually. Safe driving is much more than following the rules of the road. It goes beyond that into the cultivation of good habits, maintaining attention, and a thoughtful, cooperative attitude that avoids and prevents accidents: defensive driving.
See also Chauffeur, Driver's license, Highway Code (official UK driving manual), Performance driving techniques
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DRIVE | English | Community programme in the field of road transport informatics and telecommunications(D edicated R oad I nfrastructure for V ehicle Safety in E urope) | Computing, Transportation |
| DR | English | Drive | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: DriveSynonyms: campaign (n), cause (n), crusade (n), driveway (n), driving (n), driving force (n), effort (n), movement (n), parkway (n), private road (n), ride (n), thrust (n), aim (v), beat back (v), force (v), force back (v), get (v), labor (v), labour (v), motor (v), push (v), push back (v), ram (v), repel (v), repulse (v), take (v), tug (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: drive-in (public administration). |
| Antonym: attract (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host;crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host; (multitude); populousness. |
Compulsion | Verb: compel, force, make, drive, coerce, constrain, enforce, necessitate, oblige. |
Direction | Take the helm, be at the helm; have the reins, handle the reins, hold the reins, take the reins; drive, tool. |
Haste | Noun: haste, urgency; despatch, dispatch; acceleration, spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash; speed, velocity; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness; Adjective: impetuosity; brusquerie; hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter. |
Impulse | Verb: give an impetus; Noun: impel, push; start, give a start to, set going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, foin; cant; elbow, shoulder, jostle, justle, hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter; run against, bump against, butt against; knock one's head against, run one's head against; impinge; boost; bunt, carom, clip y; fan, fan out; jab, plug. |
Journey | Take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk, frisk, caracoler, caracole; gallop; (move quickly). |
Journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation, noctambulism; somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt. | |
Regression | Dart, lance, tilt; ejaculate, jaculate; fulminate, bolt, drive, sling, pitchfork. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm tryin' to drive you to the store (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry) Why of course not. Why, with your looks and your figure, you could drive an ice wagon or shine shoes (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden and Adolph Green.) I use discipline and drive to make my life possible (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) People on 'ludes should not drive. (Fast Times at Ridgemont High; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.) Don't worry, I've got four-wheel drive. (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi; writing credit: Cindy Davis Hewitt; Donald H. Hewitt) | |
Lyrics | I drive myself my light is found (Drive; performing artist: Incubus) You drive me crazy ((You Drive Me) Crazy - Stop Remix; performing artist: Britney Spears) Go Ahead And Put That Thing In Over Drive (Rock the Boat; performing artist: Aaliyah) You know you drive me up the wall (Crazy; performing artist: Aerosmith) I could walk but I'll just drive (Pinch Me; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) | |
Clever | Hang up and drive. (references; author: unknown) Man who drive like hell bound to get there. (references; author: unknown) I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. (references; author: unknown) Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways? (references; author: unknown) Drive carefully, we need every taxpayer we can get. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Drive Fast Drive Hard (1973) He Said Drive (1971) Sex Drive (1968) Children Watch Us Drive (1967) Nudnik Drive On (1965) | |
Song Titles | Drive (performing artist: Incubus) I Drive Myself Crazy (performing artist: 'N Sync) Drive (performing artist: The Cars) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Entrance way and front drive to the CDC, Building 1, Clifton Road, Atlanta, Georgia shot sometime during the 1980’s. Credit: CDC. |  | Early level crew - passing the mallet Rear rodman passing front rodman, recorder pulling Rodman moving ahead will drive spike to steady rod. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Rear rodman passing front rodman, recorder pulling Passing the mallet so rear rodman can drive spike to steady rod Level crew of W. H. Burger. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Cypress Point - a world famous landmark on 17 Mile Drive. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Overlooking Honolulu at night from Tantalus Drive. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Normally an oceanographic phenomenon known as upwelling keeps the surface waters of the southeast Pacific Ocean cold and teeming with small pelagics that are fished by purse seiners. Upwelling occurs in this zone when southeasterly trade winds , produced by the South Pacific anti-cyclone, along with other facto rs drive coastal waters out to sea, forcing deep nutrient-rich waters to rise. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Two men drive their horses into the stream to drop wood off at the restoration staging site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | African American farmers, Leo and Edward Jenkins own and operate this farm in Washington County in the Mississippi Delta. The grow cotton, soybeans, wheat, and vegitables. Here Edward attaches drive shaft. Credit: USDA. |
 | Large disc pulled by 4 wheel drive tractor near Seminole, Texas. Credit: USDA. |  | Sheep Drive. Credit: Unknown. |
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| "Don't Drive" by Shelley Paulson Commentary: "This sign is at a dead end road in my neighborhood." | "A Quiet Drive in the Smoky Mts" by Jean Ilderton Commentary: "Near Gaitlinburg TN October ~ ." |
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 | Squeal; rev; high-speed; rushing; bustle; celerity; commotion; dash; dispatch; drive; expedition; expeditiousness; flurry; haste; precipitance; precipitateness; precipitation; promptitude; push; quickness; rush; rustle; scurry; speediness; swiftness; urge. | | Pile driver; construction; drive; batter; beat; butt; dash; dig; hammer; jackhammer; knock; maul; plunge; pop; punch; ram; run; shoot; sink; smite; sock; stab; stick; strike; throw; thrust; thump; thwack; whack; wham. |
| Squeal; rev; high-speed; rushing; bustle; celerity; commotion; dash; dispatch; drive; expedition; expeditiousness; flurry; haste; precipitance; precipitateness; precipitation; promptitude; push; quickness; rush; rustle; scurry; speediness; swiftness; urge. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | We need tough days to drive us to our knees. |
Benjamin Franklin | Drive thy business or it will drive thee. |
| Drive your business, let not you're business drive you. | |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. |
Henny Youngman | How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put 'page 2.' |
Henry Peter | Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. |
Louisa May Alcott | Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it. |
Pythagoras | Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. |
St. Basil | Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away hunger. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | He can have no power over them but by their own consent, whatever he may drive them to say or do; and he has no lawfull authority, whilst force, and not choice, compels them to submission. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Mr. Woodhouse must not, under the specious pretence of a morning drive, and an hour or two spent at Donwell, be tempted away to his misery |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | We can drive you over |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Bypasses are devices which allow some people to drive from point A to point B very fast whilst other people dash from point B to point A very fast |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | To drive the plough, to bind the sheaf, is happiness |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Grampa took up the land, and he had to kill the Indians and drive them away |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Then as to the claws upon your feet before and behind, they are so short and tender, that one of our Yahoos would drive a dozen of yours before him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Don't drive or operate machinery. (references) | |
It blurs vision, making it hard to do things like read and drive. (references) | ||
With one eye seeing clearly, they can still drive, read, and see fine details. (references) | ||
Business | The drive behind local demand is undoubtedly the fast growing food industry. (references) | |
Various agencies exist to promote this drive, both internationally and locally. (references) | ||
However, for now this interest in mainly centered on four-wheel drive vehicles. (references) | ||
Children | Cambodia | Poverty and domestic violence often drive children to live on the streets; domestic NGO's estimate there are more than 10,000 street children in Phnom Penh alone, who are easy targets for sexual abuse and exploitation. (references) |
United Kingdom | As part of a government drive to protect children from child abusers, previously secret registers of pedophiles are available to any employer who runs an organization where persons under age 18 could be at risk (schools, children's homes, or voluntary organizations). (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Saudi Arabia | They are not allowed to drive inside the country and are dependent upon males for any transportation. (references) |
Economic History | Botswana | The U.S. Embassy is on Embassy Drive off Khama Crescent--P. (references) |
Eritrea | By 1977 the EPLF was poised to drive the Ethiopians out of Eritrea. (references) | |
Australia | It is expected that sales to ASPs will drive the server market as well. (references) | |
Human Rights | Congo | Military intervention by Angola, Chad, Namibia, and Zimbabwe resulted in the defeat of an RCD drive on Kinshasa in August 1998, but rebel forces advanced elsewhere. (references) |
South Africa | On March 3, six civilians were injured in Avilla Park in Vredendal, Western Cape Province, during a shooting between residents and police engaged in a crime prevention drive. (references) | |
Tunisia | An individual must have an identity card to sign a lease, to buy or drive a car, to receive access to healthcare, bank accounts, and pensions, and even to join a sports club. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Suriname | Organizations representing Maroon and Amerindian communities complain that small-scale mining operations, mainly by illegal Brazilian gold miners, dig trenches that cut residents off from their agricultural land and threaten to drive them away from their traditional settlements. (references) |
Minorities | India | Throughout the year, pan-Islamic militants continued to try to drive all non-Muslims out of Kashmir. (references) |
Bulgaria | Beginning in 1999, a group of ethnic Bulgarian residents of a Burgas neighborhood have persisted in a petition drive and periodic calls for the expulsion of Roma and the demolition of Romani houses in the neighborhood. (references) | |
Political Economy | Cyprus | In short, the whole economic structure of Cyprus is being transformed as a result of the drive for harmonization. (references) |
GERMANY | Despite the real progress in market liberalization in recent years, lack of competition and overregulation remain a problem and drive up business costs. (references) | |
Botswana | To keep voters' confidence, the government is engaged in a privatization drive aimed at improving productivity and diversifying the economy so as to generate jobs for all segments of society. (references) | |
Political Rights | Taiwan | The KMT remained the largest political party, with over 950,000 members reaffirming their membership in a registration drive following the 2000 electoral defeat. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | The HDZ engaged in a systematic campaign of threats and intimidation, most intensively in April and May, to try to force Croats to back its drive for Croat self-government. (references) | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | The SDP party office in Vitez suffered extensive damage in a bomb explosion on May 1; police arrested a Croat man in the attack, which police believe was motivated by the HDZ's self-government drive. (references) | |
Trade | Bolivia | The import of "transformed" cars from Japan and other right-hand drive countries was banned as of 1998. (references) |
Honduras | The Honduran banking system has been involved in a drive towards modernization and increased competition. (references) | |
India | India's drive to attract U.S. investment is hampered by a difficulty faced by potential investors in determining if there is, in fact, a market in India for their products. (references) | |
Travel | Chad | A four-wheel drive vehicle is recommended. (references) |
Ghana | Superb Korean cuisine and well worth the drive to Tema. (references) | |
Ghana | Restaurant, fast food, and takeaway and a drive through. (references) | |
Women | Bahrain | Women are free to work outside the home, to drive cars without escorts, and to wear clothing of their choice. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Women legally may not drive motor vehicles and are restricted in their use of public facilities when men are present. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | In July 1999, the AIDF launched a petition drive to pressure the authorities to enact and enforce laws against domestic violence, especially spousal abuse; 18,000 signatures had been collected by the end of 1999. In 2000 AIDF opened a house for battered girls and wives, which reportedly received approximately 18 battered women per week. (references) | |
Worker Rights | China | A 3-year drive to promote atheism and science among government workers, first begun in January 1999, was extended to more government offices and to schools. (references) |
Guatemala | On July 18 and 19, antiunion workers attacked union organizers involved in a legally registered union organizing drive in the Choi Shin/Cimatextiles maquila plants. (references) | |
Bangladesh | Children drive rickshaws, break bricks at construction sites, carry fruit, vegetables, and dry goods for shoppers at markets, work at tea stalls, and work as beachcombers in the shrimp industry. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass. They say that hens do cackle loudest when There's nothing vital in the eggs they've laid; And there are hens, professing to have made A study of mankind, who say that men Whose business 'tis to drive the tongue or pen Make the most clamorous fanfaronade O'er their most worthless work; and I'm afraid They're not entirely different from the hen. Lo! the drum-major in his coat of gold, His blazing breeches and high-towering cap -- Imperiously pompous, grandly bold, Grim, resolute, an awe-inspiring chap! Who'd think this gorgeous creature's only virtue Is that in battle he will never hurt you? Hannibal Hunsiker |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Go drive around in the UK and look at the beautiful private hospitals. |
Samantha Geimer | We were just talking. It is kind of a long drive. I was feeling a little more at ease and he seemed a little more pleasant than the first time. So it didn't take long for me to get comfortable with him. |
Trisha Meili | Right. And it was always on either the main road of the park or the cross drive is a road, and it has lights on it. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Our objection with Cuba is not over the people's drive for a better life. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | The time has also come for major reform of our criminal justice statutes and acceleration of the drive against organized crime and drug trafficking. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Drive" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 43.92% of the time. "Drive" is used about 8,139 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 43.92% | 3,575 | 2,720 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 38.46% | 3,131 | 3,002 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10.25% | 834 | 8,427 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.36% | 599 | 10,672 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8,139 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Harmonic Drive Systems Inc. | USA | Quantum Corportion-Hard Disk Drive |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "drive": airport Drive ♦ angle crank drive ♦ automatic drive ♦ backhand drive ♦ basic drive ♦ carriage drive ♦ caterpillar drive ♦ cattle drive ♦ CD drive ♦ chain drive ♦ cogwheel drive ♦ cone drive ♦ Continental drive ♦ crank drive ♦ direct drive ♦ direct drive propeller ♦ disc drive ♦ disk drive ♦ diskette drive ♦ ditto Drive ♦ drive a car ♦ drive a cart ♦ drive a coach and six through ♦ drive a hard bargain ♦ drive a hole ♦ drive a nail ♦ drive a nail home ♦ drive a pen ♦ drive about ♦ drive against ♦ drive along ♦ drive apart ♦ drive around ♦ drive ashore ♦ drive at ♦ drive at a full lick ♦ drive away ♦ drive back ♦ drive behind ♦ drive cattle ♦ drive crazy ♦ drive dead slow ♦ drive dull care away ♦ drive flat out ♦ drive for ankret ♦ drive forward ♦ drive from ♦ drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post ♦ drive hard ♦ drive home ♦ drive home to ♦ DRIVE II project ♦ drive in ♦ drive in a nail ♦ drive in a pile ♦ drive in a stake ♦ drive in cinema ♦ drive in front ♦ drive insane ♦ drive into ♦ drive into a corner ♦ drive line ♦ drive line system ♦ drive mad ♦ drive matters to an extremity ♦ drive nails into smb.'s coffin ♦ drive off ♦ drive on ♦ drive on the left ♦ drive on! ♦ drive one crazy ♦ drive one nuts ♦ drive oneself hard ♦ drive or fly ♦ drive out ♦ drive over ♦ drive past ♦ drive pulley ♦ drive round ♦ drive shaft ♦ drive sheep into a field ♦ drive smb. crazy ♦ drive smb. distracted ♦ drive smb. into a corner ♦ drive smb. mad ♦ drive smb. nuts ♦ drive smb. on to do smth. ♦ drive smb. round the bend ♦ drive smb. scatty ♦ drive smb. spare ♦ drive smb. to despair ♦ drive smb. to desperation ♦ drive smb. to distraction ♦ drive smb. to drink ♦ drive smb. to the wall ♦ drive smb. up the wall ♦ drive smb. wild ♦ drive smth. home ♦ drive smth. in ♦ drive the nail ♦ drive through. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "drive": drive-away, drive-belt, drive-by, drive-by shooting, drive-bys, drive-cum-cut, drive-hole, drive-holes, drive-in, drive-in theater, drive-in theatre, drive-in window, drive-in-drive-out, drive-inhibiting, drive-inhibition, drive-ins, drive-line, drive-management, drive-related, drive-shaft, drive-shafts, drive-stimuli, drive-stimulus, drive-through, drive-thru, drive-time, drive-up, drive-way, drive-wheel, drive-yourself, drive-yourself car. | |
Ending with "drive": cover-drive, drink-drive, fly-drive, four-wheel-drive, front-drive, front-wheel-drive, left-hand-drive, over-drive, rear-drive, right-hand-drive, sex-drive, test-drive. | |
Containing "drive": line-drive double, line-drive single, line-drive triple, non-drive-in, self-drive car, self-drive cars for hire. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "drive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |