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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Drive \Drive\, v. t.
Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, etc., to
propel (the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible
throw.
Drive \Drive\, n.
1. In various games, as tennis, cricket, etc., the act of
player who drives the ball; the stroke or blow; the flight
of the ball, etc., so driven.
2. (Golf) A stroke from the tee, generally a full shot made
with a driver; also, the distance covered by such a
stroke.
6. An implement used for driving; as:
(a) A mallet.
(b) A tamping iron.
(c) A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
(d) A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for
playing the longest strokes. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Drive \Drive\, v. i. (Golf)
To make a drive, or stroke from the tee.
Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), v. t. [imp. {Drove} (dr[=o]v),
formerly {Drave} (dr[=a]v); p. p. {Driven} (dr[i^]v'n); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Driving}.] [AS. dr[=i]fan; akin to OS.
dr[=i]ban, D. drijven, OHG. tr[=i]ban, G. treiben, Icel.
dr[=i]fa, Goth. dreiban. Cf. {Drift}, {Drove}.]
1. 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.
A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. --Jowett
(Thucyd. ).
Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along.
--Pope.
Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. --Pope.
2. To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which
draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also,
to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by
beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive
a person to his own door.
How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother!
--Thackeray.
3. To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain;
to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive
a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of
circumstances, by argument, and the like. `` Enough to
drive one mad.'' --Tennyson.
He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do
the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had
done for his. --Sir P.
Sidney.
4. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
[Now used only colloquially.] --Bacon.
The trade of life can not be driven without
partners. --Collier.
5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
To drive the country, force the swains away.
--Dryden.
6. (Mining) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery
or tunnel. --Tomlinson.
7. To pass away; -- said of time. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent
action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body
is to move it by applying a force behind; to lead is to
cause to move by applying the force before, or in
front. It takes a variety of meanings, according to the
objects by which it is followed; as, to drive an
engine, to direct and regulate its motions; to drive
logs, to keep them in the current of a river and direct
them in their course; to drive feathers or down, to
place them in a machine, which, by a current of air,
drives off the lightest to one end, and collects them
by themselves. ``My thrice-driven bed of down.''
--Shak.
Drive \Drive\, v. i.
1. To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.
Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.
--Dryden.
Under cover of the night and a driving tempest.
--Prescott.
Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our
lips are dumb. --Tennyson.
2. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any
physical force or agent; to be driven.
The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn.
--Byron.
The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers.
--Thackeray.
3. To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by
directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw
it; as, the coachman drove to my door.
4. To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an
effort; to strive; -- usually with at.
Let them therefore declare what carnal or secular
interest he drove at. --South.
5. To distrain for rent. [Obs.]
{To let drive}, to aim a blow; to strike with force; to
attack. ``Four rogues in buckram let drive at me.''
--Shak.
Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), p. p.
Driven. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), n.
1. The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage,
as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride
taken on horseback.
2. A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared
for driving.
3. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a
forced or hurried dispatch of business.
The Murdstonian drive in business. --M. Arnold.
4. In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix,
formed by a punch drift.
5. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to
be floated down a river. [Colloq.]
Syn: See {Ride}.
資料來源 : WordNet®
drive
n 1: the act of applying force to propel something; "after
reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off"
[syn: {thrust}, {driving force}]
2: a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a
machine; "a variable speed drive permitted operation
through a range of speeds"
3: a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward
a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they
worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready
for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end
slavery"; "contributed to the war effort" [syn: {campaign},
{cause}, {crusade}, {movement}, {effort}]
4: a road leading up to a private house; "they parked in the
driveway" [syn: {driveway}, {private road}]
5: the trait of being highly motivated; "his drive and energy
exhausted his co-workers"
6: hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver; "he sliced
his drive out of bounds" [syn: {driving}]
7: the act of driving a herd of animals overland
8: a journey in a vehicle driven by someone else; "he took the
family for a drive in his new car" [syn: {ride}]
9: a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or
desire
10: (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads
data from a storage medium
11: a wide scenic road planted with trees; "the riverside drive
offers many exciting scenic views" [syn: {parkway}]
12: (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
[also: {drove}, {driven}]
drive
v 1: operate or control a vehicle; "drive a car or bus"; "Can you
drive this four-wheel truck?"
2: travel or be transported in a vehicle; "We drove to the
university every morning"; "They motored to London for the
theater" [syn: {motor}]
3: cause someone or something to move by driving; "She drove me
to school every day"; "We drove the car to the garage"
4: force into or from an action or state, either physically or
metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He
drives me mad" [syn: {force}, {ram}]
5: to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive
pressure on, or motivate strongly; "She is driven by her
passion"
6: cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy";
"push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders"
[syn: {repel}, {repulse}, {force back}, {push back}, {beat
back}] [ant: {attract}]
7: compel somebody to do something, often against his own will
or judgment; "She finally drove him to change jobs"
8: push, propel, or press with force; "Drive a nail into the
wall"
9: cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force;
"drive the ball far out into the field"
10: strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for
years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little
to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her
doctoral thesis" [syn: {tug}, {labor}, {labour}, {push}]
11: move into a desired direction of discourse; "What are you
driving at?" [syn: {get}, {aim}]
12: have certain properties when driven; "This car rides
smoothly"; "My new truck drives well" [syn: {ride}]
13: work as a driver; "He drives a bread truck"; "She drives for
the taxi company in Newark"
14: move by being propelled by a force; "The car drove around
the corner"
15: urge forward; "drive the cows into the barn"
16: proceed along in a vehicle; "We drive the turnpike to work"
[syn: {take}]
17: strike with a driver, as in teeing off; "drive a golfball"
18: hit very hard and straight with the bat swinging more or
less vertically; "drive a ball"
19: excavate horizontally; "drive a tunnel"
20: cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by
controlling; "The amplifier drives the tube"; "steam
drives the engines"; "this device drives the disks for
the computer"
21: hunting: search for game; "drive the forest"
22: hunting: chase from cover into more open ground; "drive the
game"
[also: {drove}, {driven}]