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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A type of public roadway.
  • A driveway.
  • A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use.
  • A trip made in a motor vehicle.
  • baseball A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
  • computers A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data, as a hard drive, a flash drive.
  • computers An apparatus for writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
  • cricket A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
  • golf A stroke made with a driver.
  • military A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
  • psychology Desire or interest.
  • Self-motivation; ability coupled with ambition.

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Verb:

  • cricket To drive.
  • intransitive To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
  • ergative To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
  • intransitive To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
  • transitive To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
  • transitive To cause animals to flee out of.
  • transitive To cause to become.
  • transitive To compel (to do something).
  • transitive To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
  • transitive To herd (animals) in a particular direction.
  • transitive To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
  • transitive To move (something) by hitting it with great force.

Source: Wiktionary | Src Info »