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noun
- A trip made in a motor vehicle
- It was a long .
- A driveway
- The mansion had a long, tree-lined .
- A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use:
- Some old model trains have clockwork drives.
- (computers) A mass-storage device; as, a disk drive, a DVD drive, a flash drive''
- Self-motivation; ability coupled with ambition:
- ''Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had and Caesar as much again.
- (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective:
- Napoleon's on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.
- (golf) A stroke made with a driver
- (baseball) A ball struck in a flat trajectory (also called line drive)
- A type of public roadway.
- Beverly Hills" most famous street is Rodeo .
- (psychology) desire, Desire or interest.
- (cricket) 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.
Translations: - German: Trieb(de)m
- French: pulsion(fr)f
verb (drives, driving, drove, driven)
- (defn, English)
Translations: - French: guider(fr)
- German: treiben(de)
- Italian: it(it, guidare}}, {{t+)condurre
- Spanish: conducir, guiar (italbrac, Puerto Rico), manejar (italbrac, Latin America)
Etymology: drÄfanThe original meaning was more like "to push". The modern senses can all be seen to derive from this. For example, carts were driven (pushed) or drawn (pulled) long before automobiles were invented.
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