English Dictionary

drive

IPA（発音記号）

/dɹaɪv/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞 作格 俗語 廃用

(transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.

日本語の意味

（物体などに）力を加えて動かし、動かす、推進させる / ある対象に運動エネルギーや変化をもたらす / （機械やシステムを）駆動・作動させる

He used his shoulder to drive the heavy crate across the warehouse floor.

彼は肩を使って重い木箱を倉庫の床の上に押して動かした。

意味（1）

(transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.

You drive nails into wood with a hammer.

意味（2）

(transitive) To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.

My husband's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction.

意味（3）

To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.

One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail; Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.

意味（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.

[…] Demosthenes desired them first to put in at Pylos and not to proceed on their voyage until they had done what he wanted. They objected, but it so happened that a storm came on and drove them into Pylos.

意味（5）

(transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.

to drive twenty thousand head of cattle from Texas to the Kansas railheads; to drive sheep out of a field

意味（6）

(transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.

There is a litter ready; lay him in’t And drive towards Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet Both welcome and protection.

意味（7）

(transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.

The beaters drove the brambles, causing a great rush of rabbits and other creatures.

意味（8）

(transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.

You drive nails into wood with a hammer.

意味（9）

(transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.

The pistons drive the crankshaft.

意味（10）

(transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).

drive a car

意味（11）

(transitive, slang, aviation) To operate (an aircraft).

drive a 737

意味（12）

(transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.

What drives a person to run a marathon?

意味（13）

(transitive) To compel (to do something).

Their debts finally drove them to sell the business.

意味（14）

(transitive) To cause to become.

And then to hear a dead man chatter Is enough to drive one mad.

意味（15）

(intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.

意味（16）

(intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.

I drive to work every day.

意味（17）

(transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.

My cousin drove me to the airport.

意味（18）

(intransitive) To move forcefully.

[…] Unequal match’d, Pyrrhus at Priam drives, in rage strikes wide;

意味（19）

(intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).

[…] as a duck for life that dives, So up and down the poor ship drives:

意味（20）

(transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.

He driuen to dismount, threatned, if I did not the like, to doo as much for my horse, as Fortune had done for his.

意味（21）

(transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.

You know the Trade of Life can’t be driven without Partners; there is a reciprocal Dependance between the Greatest and the Least.

意味（22）

(transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.

We come not with design of wastful Prey, To drive the Country, force the Swains away:

意味（23）

(mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.

If the miners find no ore, they drive or cut a gallery from the pit a short distance at right angles to the direction of the lodes found

意味（24）

(American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.

意味（25）

(obsolete) To distrain for rent.

意味（26）

(transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.

意味（27）

To be the dominant party in a sex act.

drives （ present singular third-person ）

driving （ participle present ）

drove （ past ）

drave （ archaic past ）

driv （ dialectal past ）

driven （ participle past ）

druv （ dialectal participle past ）