English Dictionary

drive

IPA（発音記号）

/dɹaɪv/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 古風

Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.

日本語の意味

計画的かつ持続的な努力、または物事を達成するための意欲、野心、決意、そしてやる気を伴う能力

The university launched a drive to increase community engagement over the next five years.

その大学は今後5年間にわたって地域との関わりを深める運動を開始した。

意味（1）

Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.

I confess that the sight of my minute man ahead, getting closer and closer, gives me a little more drive even when I think I am going as fast as I can.

意味（2）

Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

The Murdstonian drive in business.

意味（3）

An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.

Are you all ready?’ he cried, and set off towards the dead ash where the drive would begin.

意味（4）

An act of driving (prompting) livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.

意味（5）

(military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.

Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.

意味（6）

A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.

a typical steam drive

意味（7）

A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).

It was a long drive.

意味（8）

A driveway.

The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive.

意味（9）

A type of public roadway.

Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive.

意味（10）

(dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.

意味（11）

(psychology) Desire or interest.

On the latter show, former Playboy Playmate Carrie Westcott said she'd never met a man who could match her sexual drive.

意味（12）

(computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.

意味（13）

(computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.

意味（14）

(golf) A stroke made with a driver.

意味（15）

(baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.

意味（16）

(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.

意味（17）

(soccer) A straight level shot or pass.

And after Rodallega missed two early opportunities, the first a header, the second a low drive easily held by Lukasz Fabianski, it was N'Zogbia who created the opening goal.

意味（18）

(American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.

意味（19）

A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.

a whist drive

意味（20）

(retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.

vaccination drive

意味（21）

(typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.

意味（22）

A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

drives （ plural ）