¦ verb (past drove; past participle driven)
1. operate and control the direction and speed of a motor vehicle.
convey in a car.
2. propel or carry along by force.
provide the power to operate (a machine).
(in ball games) hit or kick (the ball) hard.
bore (a tunnel).
3. urge or force to move in a specified direction.
4. compel to act in a particular way: he was driven by ambition.
¦ noun
1. a journey in a car.
2. (also driveway) a short private road leading to a house.
3. an innate, biologically determined urge.
determination and ambition.
4. an organized effort to achieve a purpose: a recruitment drive.
Brit. a large organized gathering to play whist or another game.
5. the transmission of power to machinery or to the wheels of a vehicle.
Computing a disk drive.
6. an act of driving a ball.
7. an act of driving animals.
Phrases
what one is driving at the point that one is attempting to make.
Derivatives
drivability (also driveability) noun
drivable (also driveable) adjective
Origin
OE drifan, of Gmc origin.