drive noun
1 car journey
ADJ. long | easy, short | eight-hour, sixty-mile, etc. | leisurely | pleasant, scenic It's a pleasant drive to the coast. | test
VERB + DRIVE go for, take Let's go for a drive.
PREP. within a ~ All my family live within an hour's drive.
PHRASES a … drive away The lakes are only a short drive away.
2 way a vehicle is moved
ADJ. all-wheel, four-wheel, front-wheel, rear-wheel | left-hand, right-hand Left-hand drive cars make driving in Britain difficult.
3 path/road outside a house
ADJ. sweeping, winding | gravel/gravelled | tree-lined | private | front
DRIVE + VERB sweep, swing A gravel drive swept between manicured lawns.
PREP. down the ~, in the ~, on the ~ There was a car parked on the drive. | up the ~ He walked up the front drive of the vicarage.
4 energy/determination
ADJ. competitive | personal | narrative A lack of narrative drive leaves the reader with piecemeal vignettes.
VERB + DRIVE have | lack He lacks the competitive drive needed to succeed.
5 desire/need
ADJ. innate, inner, instinctive/instinctual | creative | emotional, sex/sexual
6 effort
ADJ. big | relentless | national, nationwide | cost-cutting, efficiency, export, fundraising, marketing, membership, modernization, recruitment, sales | anti-corruption, anti-drug, etc.
VERB + DRIVE launch We're going to launch a big recruitment drive in the autumn.
PREP. ~ against a drive against corruption | ~ by the recent recruitment drive by the police | ~ for the country's drive for modernization | ~ towards a drive towards higher safety standards
7 computing
ADJ. CD-ROM, disk, DVD, floppy, hard, zip
8 in sport
ADJ. powerful, strong, thunderous | angled, crisp | left-foot, right-foot (in football) Cole scored with a thunderous left-foot drive. | backhand, forehand (in tennis) a forehand drive down the line
VERB + DRIVE hit | hook, slice (in golf) > Special page at SPORT
drive verb
ADV. fast, quickly You shouldn't drive so fast! She drove quickly back to the office. | slowly | carefully | recklessly He was arrested for driving recklessly. | around, away, back, off, on She got into the car and drove away.
PREP. from, to driving from London to Manchester
PHRASES drink and drive
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