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.
- Syllables Count
- 1
- Characters Count
- 5
- Alpha-numeric Characters Count
- 5
- Hyphens Count
- 0
Definitions of drive
drive is defined as:
Definition 1 as noun
- nounMotivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
Example: Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.
- nounViolent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- nounAn act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc.
- nounA 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.
- nounA mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
Example: Some old model trains have clockwork drives.
- nounA trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
Example: It was a long drive.
- nounA driveway.
Example: The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive.
- nounA type of public roadway.
Example: Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive.
- nounA place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
- nounDesire or interest.
- nounAn apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
- nounA 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.
- nounA stroke made with a driver.
- nounA ball struck in a flat trajectory.
- nounA 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.
- nounA straight level shot or pass.
- nounAn offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
- nounA 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.
- nounAn impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
- nounA collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
Definition 1 as verb
- verbTo 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.
- verbTo 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.
- verbTo displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- verbTo 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
- verbTo direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
- verbTo cause animals to flee out of.
Example: The beaters drove the brambles, causing a great rush of rabbits and other creatures.
- verbTo move (something) by hitting it with great force.
Example: You drive nails into wood with a hammer.
- verbTo cause (a mechanism) to operate.
Example: The pistons drive the crankshaft.
- verbTo operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
Example: drive a car
- verbTo motivate; to provide an incentive for.
Example: What drives a person to run a marathon?
- verbTo compel (to do something).
Example: Their debts finally drove them to sell the business.
- verbTo cause to become.
Example: This constant complaining is going to drive me to insanity. You are driving me crazy!
- verbTo hit the ball with a drive.
- verbTo travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
Example: I drive to work every day.
- verbTo convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
Example: My wife drove me to the airport.
- verbTo move forcefully.
- verbTo be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
- verbTo urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
- verbTo carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- verbTo clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- verbTo dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- verbTo put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
- verbTo distrain for rent.
- verbTo separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
- verbTo be the dominant party in a sex act.
Words nearby drive
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- drivage
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- drive-in
- driveable
- driveaway
- driveboat
- drivebolt
- drivecap
- drivehead
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