drive

/dɹaɪv/

Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.

Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.

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

An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc.

A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.

Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.

A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.

Some old model trains have clockwork drives.

A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).

It was a long drive.

A driveway.

The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive.

A type of public roadway.

Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive.

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

Desire or interest.

An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.

A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data, as a hard drive, a flash drive.

A stroke made with a driver.

A ball struck in a flat trajectory.

A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.

A straight level shot or pass.

An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.

A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.

a whist drive; a beetle drive

(retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.

An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.

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

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