Definition of drive

• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
• v. t. - To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
• v. t. - To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
• v. t. - To pass away; -- said of time.
• v. i. - To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.
• v. i. - To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.
• v. i. - 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.
• v. i. - To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at.
• v. i. - To distrain for rent.
• p. p. - Driven.
• n. - The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.
• n. - A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
• n. - Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
• n. - In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.
• n. - A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.