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# drive

«drive» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make a car, bus or truck go and steer it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (drive, drives, drove, driven, driving); noun (a drive, drives)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To drive is to make a car, bus or truck go and steer it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drive/#m1)

2) A drive is a trip in a car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drive/#m2)

3) To drive someone is to take them in a car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drive/#m3)

4) A drive (driveway) is the short road from the street to a house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drive/#m4)

5) To drive is also to push or make something move, like driving a nail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drive/#m5)

6) Drive is strong wish to do something; a drive is also a part of a computer that stores files. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drive/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

maths: travel in a car with distance, speed and time; distance = speed × time, time = distance ÷ speed; there and back doubles; everyday life: Dad drives us to school, a long drive to the beach, the car in the drive; safety: wear a seatbelt, children sit in the back; computing: save to the drive

### examples

- They drive 60 miles an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drive/#x1)
- She drives 12 km to work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drive/#x2)
- How long is the drive? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drive/#x3)
- He drives 3 hours each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drive/#x4)
- Mum drives me to football practice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drive/#x5)
- It is a two-hour drive to the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drive/#x6)
- Park the car in the drive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drive/#x7)
- Always wear your seatbelt when someone drives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drive/#x8)
- Save the file on the drive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drive/#x9)
- Come and drive away this bull!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drive/#x10)

### note

Speed × time gives distance; distance ÷ speed gives time. Trap: «drive to work and back» doubles the distance. Past: drove; has driven.

### In the corpora

- [Online cruelty drives real people off social media; memes mocking someone's looks are bullying, even when lots of people share them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/21/)
- [Self-driving vehicles are being tested, and their safety must be proven before they are used everywhere.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/14/)
- [Lionesses hunt together, some driving prey towards others hiding in ambush, so they can catch animals as strong as buffalo.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together/11/)
- [It may be the first dolphin driven extinct by people, through boats, nets, electric fishing and dams.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/13/)
- [It's enough to drive one crazy!", calls him "perfectly idiotic", and goes in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «drive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.