How to pronounce “drive”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• To operate a vehicle:
• To compel to move:
• To cause to move by the application of physical force:
• (transitive) To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
• To compel to undergo a non-physical change:
• (intransitive) To move forcefully.
• (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
• (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
• (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
• (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
• (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
• (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
• To be the dominant party in a sex act. (Can we add an example for this sense? )
• [Noun]
• Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
• Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; (especially) a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
• An act of driving (prompting) animals forward.
• (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take an 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.
• (automotive) The gear into which one usually shifts an automatic transmission when one is driving a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol D on a shifter's labeling.)
• (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
• (psychology) Desire or interest.
• (computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
• (computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
• (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
• (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
• (cricket) 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.
• (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
• (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
• (philanthropy) A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
• (retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product or promoting a public service.
• (typography) 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.
• (UK, especially Bristol and Wales, slang) Friendly term of address for a bus driver.

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