Meaning

• Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.

  "Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again."

• Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

• An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc.

• A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.

  "Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous."

• A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.

  "Some old model trains have clockwork drives."

• A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).

  "It was a long drive."

• A driveway.

  "The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive."

• A type of public roadway.

  "Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive."

• A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.

• Desire or interest.

• An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.

• A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data, as a hard drive, a flash drive.

• A stroke made with a driver.

• A ball struck in a flat trajectory.

• A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.

• A straight level shot or pass.

• An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.

• A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.

  "a whist drive; a beetle drive"

• (retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.

• An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.

• A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

Meaning

• To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.

  "You drive nails into wood with a hammer."

• To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.

  "My wife's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction."

• To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.

• To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.

• (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.

  "to drive twenty thousand head of cattle from Texas to the Kansas railheads; to drive sheep out of a field"

• To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.

• To cause animals to flee out of.

  "The beaters drove the brambles, causing a great rush of rabbits and other creatures."

• To move (something) by hitting it with great force.

  "You drive nails into wood with a hammer."

• To cause (a mechanism) to operate.

  "The pistons drive the crankshaft."

• To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).

  "drive a car"

• To motivate; to provide an incentive for.

  "What drives a person to run a marathon?"

• To compel (to do something).

  "Their debts finally drove them to sell the business."

• To cause to become.

  "This constant complaining is going to drive me to insanity.   You are driving me crazy!"

• To hit the ball with a drive.

• To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.

  "I drive to work every day."

• To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.

  "My wife drove me to the airport."

• To move forcefully.

• To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).

• To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.

• To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.

• To clear, by forcing away what is contained.

• To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.

• To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.

• To distrain for rent.

• To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.

• To be the dominant party in a sex act.