drive

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

IPA（発音記号）

/dɹaɪv/

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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

英語の意味

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

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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。

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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(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.

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

a typical steam drive

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

It was a long drive.

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意味（8）

A driveway.

The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive.

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A type of public roadway.

Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive.

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

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(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.

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

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

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(golf) A stroke made with a driver.

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

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(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.

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(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.

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

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

a whist drive

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

vaccination drive

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

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

drives （ plural ）