Drive

Table of contents

1 Pronunciation 2 Intransitive verb 2.1 Translations 3 Transitive verb 3.2 Translations 4 Noun 4.3 Translations

Pronunciation

to drive (drove, driven)

1. to travel by operating a motorized vehicle

• Breton: bleinañ
• Bulgarian: возя се
• Dutch: rijden
• French: conduire
• German: fahren
• Indonesian: mengemudi, mengemudikan, mengendalikan
• Japanese: 運転する (うんてんする, unten-suru)

to drive (drove, driven)

1. to operate (a motorized vehicle)
2. to herd (animals) in a particular direction
3. to move something by hitting it with great force (You drive nails into wood with a hammer.)
4. to cause (a mechanism) to operate (The pistons drive the crankshaft.)

• Bulgarian: шофирам (1), вкарвам (3), задвижвам (4)
• German: fahren (1)

1. a trip made in a motor vehicle (It was a long drive.)
2. a driveway
3. a mechanism for producing or directing force (Some old model trains have a clockwork drive.)
4. (Computers) A mechanical mass-storage device (disk drive, DVD drive)
5. (Golf) A stroke made with a driver
6. (Baseball) A ball struck in a flat trajectory (also called line drive)