Drive Definition
A driveway.
- bleacher drive
- home run
- line-drive
- infield drive
- driving force
- thrust
- urge
- impulse
- initiative
- energy
- avenue
- approach
- road
- parkway
- private-road
- to aim at
- to mean; intend
- to force in, as by a blow
- to cause (a runner) to score or (a run) to be scored, as by getting a hit
Origin of Drive
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From Middle English driven, from Old English drīfan (“to drive, force, move, chase, hunt, follow up, pursue; impel by physical force, rush against, thrust, carry off vigorously, transact, prosecute, conduct, practice, carry on, exercise, do; speak often of a matter, bring up, agitate, trot out; urge a cause; suffer, undergo; proceed with violence, rush with violence, act impetuously”), from Proto-Germanic *drībaną (“to drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“cloudy, dirty, muddy”). Cognate with Scots drive (“to drive”), North Frisian driwe (“to drive”), West Frisian driuwe (“to chase, drive, impel”), Dutch drijven (“to drive”), Low German drieven (“to drive, drift, push”), German treiben (“to drive, push, propel”), Danish drive (“to drive, run, force”), Swedish driva (“to drive, power, drift, push, force”), Icelandic drífa (“to drive, hurry, rush”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English driven from Old English drīfan dhreibh- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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