Definition of drive

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Drive (v. t.) To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room..

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Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east..
Jog :: "Jog (v. t.) To cause to jog; to drive at a jog, as a horse. See Jog, v. i..
Four-in-hand :: Four-in-hand (n.) A team of four horses driven by one person; also, a vehicle drawn by such a team..
Abactor :: Abactor (n.) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves.
Pack :: Pack (n.) A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
Reverberate :: Reverberate (v. i.) To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound..
Stakehead :: Stake-driver (n.) The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen..
Driver :: Driver (n.) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier..
Explode :: Explode (v. t.) To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play..
Golf :: Golf (n.) A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.
Fear :: Fear (n.) To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.
Billiards :: Billiards (n.) A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished..
Back :: Back (v. i.) To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen..
Ferret :: Ferret (n.) To drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts; -- often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret..
Winnebagoes :: Winnebagoes (n.) A tribe of North American Indians who originally occupied the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois..
Compact :: Compact (v. t.) To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body..
Shove :: Shove (v. i.) To push or drive forward; to move onward by pushing or jostling.
Near :: Near (adv.) Next to the driver, when he is on foot; in the Unted States, on the left of an animal or a team; as, the near ox; the near leg. See Off side, under Off, a..
Crosscut :: Crosscut (n.) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another..
Drive :: Drive (n.) A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
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