English-Lithuanian translations for drive

• įvaryti
• varyti
  To pakanka, kad būtumėte išvaryti iš proto. It is enough to drive you round the bend.
  Praėjusių metų birželį JT įspėjo, kad per ateinančius 10 metų dykumėjimas gali išvaryti iš namų 50 mln. žmonių, daugiausia su Sacharos dykuma besiribojančiose Afrikos vietovėse ir vidurio Azijoje. Last June the UN warned that over the next 10 years desertification could drive 50 million people from their homes, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia.
• važiuoti
  Jiems geresni keliai reiškė, kad galima greičiau važiuoti. Better roads meant they could drive faster.
  Diskusija dėl biodegalų kelia moralinį ir principinį klausimą: valgyti ar važiuoti? The debate on biofuels raises a moral issue and a question of principle: to eat or to drive?
  Negalima pavogti automobilio, važiuoti juo magistralėje, o įsikišus policijai tiesiog pasakyti, kad šioje magistralėje yra laisvas judėjimas. You cannot steal a car, drive it on the motorway and, when the police step in, say there is free movement on the motorway.

Definition of drive

• Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition
• 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
• A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part
• A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle
• A driveway
• A type of public roadway
• A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving
• An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive
• A stroke made with a driver
• 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
• An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity
• A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount
• A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river
• To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto
• To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind
• 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
• '''To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on
• To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal
• To cause animals to flee out of
• To move by hitting it with great force
• To cause to operate
• To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle
• To motivate; to provide an incentive for
• To compel (to do something
• To cause to become
• To hit the ball with a drive#Noun|drive
• To convey in a wheeled motorized vehicle
• 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 : to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field
• To separate the lighter from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air

Examples

• Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again
• Napoleons drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous
• a typical steam drive, a nuclear drive; chain drive, gear drive; all-wheel drive, front-wheel drive, left-hand drive
• Some old model trains have clockwork drives
• It was a long drive
• The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive
• Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive
• a whist drive; a beetle drive
• You drive nails into wood with a hammer
• My wifes constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction.
• to drive twenty thousand head of cattle from Texas to the Kansas railheads; to drive sheep out of a field
• You drive nails into wood with a hammer
• The pistons drive the crankshaft
• drive a car
• What drives a person to run a marathon?
• Their debts finally drove them to sell the business
• This constant complaining is going to drive me to insanity.   You are driving me crazy!
• I drive to work every day
• My wife drove me to the airport

Related words

• drive to drink