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The correct spelling is drive.
How to pronounce drive
/dɹaɪv/
nounIPA: /dɹaɪv/
Say it like: Dri-ve
The correct spelling is drive. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition. For example: "Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again."
Usage Examples
“Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.”
“Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.”
“Some old model trains have clockwork drives.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
- 2.Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- 3.An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc.
- 4.A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
- 5.A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
verb
- 1.To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
- 2.To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
- 3.To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- 4.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.
- 5.(especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
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