English-Norwegian translations for drive

• kjøre
• drive

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