Word Meanings - DRIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by

Additional info about word: DRIVE

To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by applying a force behind; to lead is to cause to move by applying the force before, or in front. It takes a variety of meanings, according to the objects by which it is followed; as, to drive an engine, to direct and regulate its motions; to drive logs, to keep them in the current of a river and direct them in their course; to drive feathers or down, to place them in a machine, which, by a current of air, drives off the lightest to one end, and collects them by themselves. "My thrice-driven bed of down." Shak. (more info) 1. To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room. A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. Jowett . Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along. Pope. Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. Pope. 2. To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door. How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother! Thackeray. 3. To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like. " Enough to drive one mad." Tennyson. He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his. Sir P. Sidney. The trade of life can not be driven without partners. Collier. 5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained. To drive the country, force the swains away. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DRIVE)

• Actuate
• Urge
• instigate
• stir
• induce
• influence
• incline
• dispose
• incite
• impel
• prompt
• drive
• Chase Pursue
• hunt
• follow
• prosecute
• Coerce
• Restrain
• inhibit
• compel
• counteract
• check
• constrain
• force
• confine
• intimidate
• Compel
• Force
• oblige
• necessitate
• make
• coerce
• bind
• Dash
• Burl
• cast
• throw
• subvert
• detrude
• rush
• send
• fly
• speed
• dart
• scatter
• strike
• course

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DRIVE)

• Loose
• liberate
• instigate
• accelerate
• license
• indulge
• allow
• abet
• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline
• Slave
• prevent
• dissuade

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• SPECTACLE
  An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Something exhibited to view; usually,
• SPERMATOCYTE
  See SPERMOBLAST
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• SPERMATIC
  Of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc. Spermatic cord , the cord which suspends the testicle within the scrotum. It is made up of a connective tissue sheath inclosing the spermatic duct and accompanying
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• SPERMATICAL
  Spermatic.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• SPECTROGRAPH
  An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum. A photograph or picture of a spectrum. -- Spec`tro*graph"ic , a. --Spec`tro*graph"ic*al*ly , adv. --Spec*trog"ra*phy , n.
• SPECK
  The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. Speck falls , falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• SPECE
  Species; kind. Chaucer.
• SPECTATORSHIP
  1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak.
• ANGIOMONOSPERMOUS
  Producing one seed only in a seed pod.
• ASPER
  Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. "An asper sound." Bacon.
• INACTUATE
  To put in action.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• DISPENSE
  1. To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott. 2.
• OOSPERM; OOESPERM
  The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoön in impregnation. Balfour.