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drive

/dɹaɪv/ sustantivo A1

En español: dispositivo, motor, púlsar, viaje de carro

  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

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We found three or four grooms and idlers standing in the drive inspecting a bicycle which had been drawn out from a clump of evergreens in which it had been concealed.
The Valley of Fear, p. 46 · C1
A short walk along the winding drive with such sward and oaks around it as one only sees in rural England, then a sudden turn, and the long, low Jacobean house of dingy, liver-coloured brick lay before us, with an old-fashioned garden of cut yews on each side of it.
The Valley of Fear, p. 38 · C1
“I’m going to drive over to White Sands and settle this thing.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 46 · C1
Suppose, for instance, the prisoner, as is more than probable, to have served under Napoleon—well, can you expect for an instant, that one accustomed, at the word of his commander, to rush fearlessly on the very bayonets of his foe, will scruple more to drive a stiletto into the heart of one he knows to be his personal enemy, than to slaughter his fellow-creatures, merely because bidden to do so by one he is bound to obey?
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 49 · C1

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