The act of applying force to propel something:
— After reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off.

synoniemen: driving force, thrust.

Roget 684: haste, urgency; despatch, dispatch; acceleration, spurt, spirt^†, forced march, rush, dash; speed, velocity etc. 274; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness etc. adj.; impetuosity; brusquerie^†; hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 72: assemblage; collection, collocation, colligation^†; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement^†; team; concourse, conflux^†, congregation, contesseration^†, convergence etc. 290; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione [It] etc. (social gathering) 892; assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote^†; conclave etc. (council) 696; posse, posse comitatus [Lat.]; Noah's ark.    miscellany, collectanea^†; museum, menagerie etc. (store) 636; museology^†.    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 [U.S.]; remuda^†; roundup [U.S.]; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment etc. (combatants) 726; host etc. (multitude) 102; populousness.    clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association etc. (party) 712.    volley, shower, storm, cloud.    group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine^†, fasces^†, bale; seron^†, seroon^†; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel^†, stack, sheaf, haycock^†; fascicle, fascicule^†, fasciculus [Lat.], gavel, hattock^†, stook^†.    accumulation etc. (store) 636; congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau^†, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing^†; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation^†, cumulation; glomeration^†, agglomeration; conglobation^†; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate [Chem], coacervation [Chem], coagmentation^†, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum [Lat.], spicilegium^†, black hole of Calcutta; quantity etc. (greatness) 31.    collector, gatherer; whip, whipper in.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: drijfkracht, por, stoot, stuwing, stuwkracht

A mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine.

Nederlands: aandrijfmechanisme, aandrijving, drijfwerk, transmissie

A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end:
— The team was ready for a drive toward the pennant.

synoniemen: campaign, cause, crusade, effort, movement.

Nederlands: doel, aanleiding, reden, kruistocht
Pools: krucjata

A road leading up to a private house:
— They parked in the driveway.

synoniemen: driveway, private road.

Nederlands: pad, oprijlaan
Pools: podjazd

The trait of being highly motivated.

Hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver:
— He sliced his drive out of bounds.

synoniem: driving.

Nederlands: campagne

The act of driving a herd of animals overland.

Nederlands: inrit, oprit
Pools: naganianie, napędzanie

A journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile):
— He took the family for a drive in his new car.

synoniem: ride.

Roget 266: travel; traveling etc. v.. wayfaring, campaigning.    journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion^†, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation^†, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation^†, noctambulism; somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt.    equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege [Fr.], ride and tie; basophobia^†.    roving, vagrancy, pererration^†; marching and countermarching; nomadism; vagabondism, vagabondage; hoboism [U.S.]; gadding; flit, flitting, migration; emigration, immigration, demigration^†, intermigration^†; wanderlust.    plan, itinerary, guide; handbook, guidebook, road book; Baedeker^†, Bradshaw, Murray; map, road map, transportation guide, subway map.    procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column.    [Organs and instruments of locomotion] vehicle etc. 272; automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive; legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters.    traveler etc. 268.    depot [U.S.], railway station, station.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: autorit, lift, rit, rondrit, sightseeing, toer
Pools: przejażdżka

A physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire.

Pools: potrzeba fizjologiczna

computer science A device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium.

Pools: napęd

A wide scenic road planted with trees:
— The riverside drive offers many exciting scenic views.

synoniem: parkway.

Nederlands: Parkway, middenberm

sports A hard straight return (as in tennis or squash).

Operate or control a vehicle.

Roget 693: direct, manage, govern, conduct; order, prescribe, cut out work for; bead, lead; lead the way, show the way; take the lead, lead on; regulate, guide, steer, pilot; tackle, take the helm, be at the helm; have the reins, handle the reins, hold the reins, take the reins; drive, tool.    superintend, supervise; overlook, control, keep in order, look after, see to, legislate for; administer, ministrate^†; matronize^†; have the care of, have the charge of; be in charge of, have charge of, take the direction; boss, boss one around; pull the strings, pull the wires; rule etc. (command) 737; have the direction, hold office, hold the portfolio; preside, preside at the board; take the chair, occupy the chair, be in the chair; pull the stroke oar.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 284: propel, project, throw, fling, cast, pitch, chuck, toss, jerk, heave, shy, hurl; flirt, fillip.    dart, lance, tilt; ejaculate, jaculate^†; fulminate, bolt, drive, sling, pitchfork.    send; send off, let off, fire off; discharge, shoot; launch, release, send forth, let fly; put in orbit, send into orbit, launch into orbit dash.    put in motion, set in motion; set agoing^†, start; give a start, give an impulse to; impel etc. 276; trundle etc. (set in rotation) 312; expel etc. 297.    carry one off one's legs; put to flight.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: besturen, chaufferen

Travel or be transported in a vehicle.

synoniem: motor.

Cause someone or something to move by driving.

Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically:
— He drives me mad.

synoniemen: force, ram.

Roget 744: compel, force, make, drive, coerce, constrain, enforce, necessitate, oblige.    force upon, press; cram down the throat, thrust down the throat, force down the throat; say it must be done, make a point of, insist upon, take no denial; put down, dragoon.    extort, wring from; squeeze, put on the squeeze; put on the screws, turn on the screw; drag into; bind, bind over; pin down, tie down; require, tax, put in force; commandeer; restrain etc. 751.    ... meer laten zien

To compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly.

Cause to move back by force or influence.

synoniemen: beat back, force back, push back, repel, repulse.

Nederlands: afstoten, terugdrijven, terugdringen, terugduwen, terugslaan

Compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment.

Push, propel, or press with force.

Nederlands: drijven, slaan

Cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force.

Strive and make an effort to reach a goal.

synoniemen: labor, labour, push, tug.

Roget 276: give an impetus etc. n.; impel, push; start, give a start to, set going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, foin [Fr.]; 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 [U.S.]; bunt, carom, clip y; fan, fan out; jab, plug [Slang].    strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse^†, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pink, lunge, yerk^†; kick, calcitrate^†; butt, strike at etc. (attack) 716; whip etc. (punish) 972.    come into a collision, enter into collision; collide; sideswipe; foul; fall foul of, run foul of; telescope.    throw etc. (propel) 284.    ... meer laten zien

Move into a desired direction of discourse.

synoniemen: aim, get.

Nederlands: jagen, drijven

Have certain properties when driven:
— My new truck drives well.

synoniem: ride.

Roget 266: travel, journey, course; take a journey, go a journey; take a walk, go out for walk etc. n.; have a run; take the air.    flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the country; peragrate^†; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize^†, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about; expatiate.    walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare; promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path.    take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk^†, frisk, caracoler^†, caracole; gallop etc. (move quickly) 274.    [start riding] embark, board, set out, hit the road, get going, get underway.    peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on; stir one's stumps; bend one's steps, bend one's course; make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way; slide, glide, coast, skim, skate; march in procession, file on, defile.    go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.    ... meer laten zien

Work as a driver.

Move by being propelled by a force.

Urge forward.

Proceed along in a vehicle:
— We drive the turnpike to work.

synoniem: take.

Strike with a driver, as in teeing off.

Hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally.

Excavate horizontally.

Cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling.

hunting Search for game.

hunting Chase from cover into more open ground.