Hyphenation of drive

How to hyphenate drive

Because it is a word with a single syllable, drive is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.

drive

Syllables Count: 1
Characters Count: 5
Alpha-numeric Characters Count: 5
Hyphens Count: 0

Haphenation done based on the Knuth-Liang word-division algorithm. The computed hyphenation pattern is: drive

Definitions of drive

drive is defined as:

Definition 1 as noun

noun
Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
Example: Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.
noun
Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
noun
An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc.
noun
A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
Example: Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.
noun
A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
Example: Some old model trains have clockwork drives.
noun
A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
Example: It was a long drive.
noun
A driveway.
Example: The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive.
noun
A type of public roadway.
Example: Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive.
noun
A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
noun
Desire or interest.
noun
An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
noun
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.
noun
A stroke made with a driver.
noun
A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
noun
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.
noun
A straight level shot or pass.
noun
An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
noun
A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
Example: a whist drive; a beetle drive
noun
(retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
noun
An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
noun
A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

Definition 1 as verb

verb
To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
Example: You drive nails into wood with a hammer.
verb
To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
Example: My wife's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction.
verb
To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
verb
To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.
verb
(especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
Example: to drive twenty thousand head of cattle from Texas to the Kansas railheads; to drive sheep out of a field
verb
To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
verb
To cause animals to flee out of.
Example: The beaters drove the brambles, causing a great rush of rabbits and other creatures.
verb
To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
Example: You drive nails into wood with a hammer.
verb
To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
Example: The pistons drive the crankshaft.
verb
To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
Example: drive a car
verb
To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
Example: What drives a person to run a marathon?
verb
To compel (to do something).
Example: Their debts finally drove them to sell the business.
verb
To cause to become.
Example: This constant complaining is going to drive me to insanity. You are driving me crazy!
verb
To hit the ball with a drive.
verb
To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
Example: I drive to work every day.
verb
To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
Example: My wife drove me to the airport.
verb
To move forcefully.
verb
To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
verb
To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
verb
To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
verb
To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
verb
To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
verb
To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
verb
To distrain for rent.
verb
To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
verb
To be the dominant party in a sex act.

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