drive

CEFRA1

/dɹaɪv/

verb · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To control and move a vehicle.

  2. 02

    noun

    A trip in a vehicle.

Examples

  • They were clearly too drunk to drive.

  • What... you still don't know how to drive?

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [dɹɑe̯v]
  • /dɹɑev/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To operate a vehicle:

  2. To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. Energy or determination to achieve something.

More examples

In context

  • You had better not drive a car.

  • The bridges weren't strong enough to drive (campers) over.

  • This SUV drives insanely smoothly—it's like it knows what I want before I do.

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Origin

verb

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”). Cognates 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, prope...