drive

1. Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation. (countable, uncountable) · Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.
2. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; (especially) a forced or hurried dispatch of business. (countable, uncountable)
3. An act of driving game animals forward, to be captured or hunted. (countable, uncountable)
4. An act of driving livestock animals forward, to transport a herd. (countable, uncountable)
5. A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take an objective. (countable, uncountable) · Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.
6. A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part. (countable, uncountable) · steam drive, nuclear drive, chain drive, rear-wheel drive, all-wheel drive, front-wheel drive· Some old model trains have clockwork drives.
7. The location of the steering wheel used to control a vehicle. (countable, uncountable) · left-hand drive, right-hand drive
8. The gear into which one usually shifts an automatic transmission when one is driving a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol D on a shifter's labeling.) (countable, uncountable)

Plural drives