The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.
A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
In type founding and forging, 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.
a private road; a driveway.
a strong psychological motivation to perform some activity.
(Computers) a device for reading or writing data from or to a data storage medium, as a disk drive, a tape drive, a CD drive, etc.
an organized effort by a group to accomplish a goal within a limited period of time; as, a fund-raising drive.
a physiological function of an organism motivating it to perform specific behaviors; as, the sex drive.
(Football) the period during which one team sustains movement of the ball toward the opponent's goal without losing possession of the ball; as, a long drive downfield.
an act of driving a vehicle, especially an automobile; the journey undertaken by driving an automobile; as, to go for a drive in the country.
the mechanism which causes the moving parts of a machine to move; as, a belt drive.
the way in which the propulsive force of a vehicle is transmitted to the road; as, a car with four-wheel drive, front-wheel drive, etc.
