drive – English noun declension

English noun forms of drive

Noun: drive
Singulardrive
Pluraldrives

Sample Sentences

  • Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.
  • As we contemplate the half-finished arterial roads and electrification plans of our own age, and the town-planning schemes that gather dust in the public libraries, we can admire the drive and action of the railway pioneers. [1951 December, Michael Robbins, “John Francis's "History of the English Railway"”, in Railway Magazine, page 800:]
  • 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. [1986, Fred Matheny, Solo Cycling: How to Train and Race Bicycle Time Trials, page 136:]
  • Although British involvement in the slave trade prior to 1807 cannot be denied, or its effects diminished, it is also a fact that the Royal Navy was pretty much the only force in the world in the 19th century with the numbers, drive, willingness, firepower, and capability to curtail the global slave trade, and that, without these efforts, many more would no doubt have been taken to slave plantations and other such destinations during the 19th, and possibly even into the 20th, centuries, as it must be remembered that a great many European powers would only begrudgingly commit to ending the slave trade when the other option was continuous war with the British Empire. [2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 11:37 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:]
  • I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur [2024, “Hot One”, in King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2, performed by Denzel Curry, Note the word play involving the senses of operating a vehicle:]
  • The Murdstonian drive in business. [1881, Matthew Arnold, The Incompatibles:]
  • Are you all ready?’ he cried, and set off towards the dead ash where the drive would begin. [1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 79:]
  • Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.
  • On the other hand, in Eritrea (once our Forces had recaptured Kassala on January 19) the drive was generally eastward towards the capital, Asmara, and the Red Sea port of Massaua. [1941 August, Charles E. Lee, “Railways of Italian East Africa—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 340:]
  • steam drive, nuclear drive, chain drive, rear-wheel drive, all-wheel drive, front-wheel drive
  • Some old model trains have clockwork drives.
  • A universal joint shaft takes the drive to the final drive unit mounted centrally on one of the axles. [1958 April 26, “Diesel Railbus for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 275:]
  • Heat engine-electric hybrid vehicles : The hybrid vehicle on which most development work has been done to date is the one that couples a heat engine with an electric drive system. The objective remains the same as it was in 1900: [2001, Michael Hereward Westbrook, The Electric Car, IET, →ISBN, page 146:]
  • left-hand drive, right-hand drive
  • Normally you should be in drive, although you can select a lower gear such as 2 or 1 for certain conditions, such as prolonged downhill stretches.
  • The drive this morning was awful due to snow and ice.
  • It was a long drive to Santa Fe.
  • We merely waited to rouse good Mrs. Vesey from the place which she still occupied at the deserted luncheon-table, before we entered the open carriage for our promised drive. [1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White:]
  • We like to go for a drive on Sunday afternoons.
  • The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive.
  • We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • Halfway from Hellingly Station, the railway enters the well-kept hospital grounds, and runs parallel with a tree-lined drive about half a mile long. [1957 December 26, H. R. Stones, “The Hellingly Hospital Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 871:]
  • I listen for your footsteps coming up the drive / Listen for your footsteps, but they don't arrive [1968, Ringo Starr, “Don't Pass Me By”, performed by The Beatles:]
  • Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive.
  • 1995 March 2, John Carman, "Believe It, You Saw It in Sweeps", SFGate http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Believe-It-You-Saw-It-In-Sweeps-3043091.php
  • On the latter show, former Playboy Playmate Carrie Westcott said she'd never met a man who could match her sexual drive.
  • I suffered under the intense drive of my new job.
  • a long drive
  • 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. [2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC:]
  • a fund-raising drive
  • a whist drive
  • a beetle drive
  • vaccination drive
  • Yeah, thanks, drive!
  • You boyz all goin' shoppin'?
  • We are, drive, says Chip. [2017 March 21, Leonora Brito, Dat's Love and Other Stories, Parthian Books, →ISBN:]
  • The coaches dropped us where we had begun, outside the chapel; each child in turn piping up, 'Thank you, drive!' as we disembarked. [2017 July 1, Huw Lewis, To Hear the Skylark's Song, Parthian Books, →ISBN:]
  • Soon every stop on every route was once again punctuated by rounds of 'Cheers drive! Cheers drive! Cheers drive!' And with this little nicety reinstated, all was relatively well in Bristol town. [2018 June 28, Wilf Merttens, Bristol Urban Legends: The Hotwells Crocodile and Other Stories, The History Press, →ISBN:]
  • 'Cheers, Drive!' said Dylan as they climbed off the bus. [2019 May 30, Ed Clarke, The Secret Dragon, Penguin UK, →ISBN:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *drībaną
4. Proto-West Germanic *drīban
5. Old English drīfan
6. Middle English driven
7. English drive
8. From Middle English driven, from Old English drīfan (“to drive, force, move”), from Proto-West Germanic *drīban, from Proto-Germanic *drībaną (“to drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”).
9. Cognates
10. Cognate with Scots drive (“to drive”), Yola dhreeve, dhrive, dreeve, drieve, drive (“to drive”), North Frisian driiv, driiw, driwe (“to drive”), West Frisian driuwe (“to drive; to float”), Alemannic German triibe (“to drive”), Dutch drijven (“to drive, push”), German treiben (“to drive, push, propel”), Low German drieven (“to drive, drift, push”), Luxembourgish dreiwen (“to drive, propel”), Yiddish טרײַבן (traybn, “to drive”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål drive (“to drive, propel”), Icelandic drífa (“to drive”), Norwegian Nynorsk driva, drive (“to drive, move; to propel; to run”), Swedish driva (“to drive, compel; to drift; to run”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (dreiban, “to drive”). See: Old English Nouns 'drīfan', Icelandic Nouns 'drífa', Swedish Nouns 'driva'.

Verbs referencing "drive"

German Nouns Drive, Finnish Nouns draivi, Russian Nouns драйв.