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drive

US: /ˈdɹaɪv/

UK: /dɹˈa‍ɪv/

English - Vietnamese dictionary

drive /draiv/

danh từ
- cuộc đi xe, cuộc đi chơi bằng xe
  - to go for a drive: đi chơi bằng xe
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) đường lái xe vào nhà (trong khu vực một toà nhà)
- sự lùa (thú săn), sự săn đuổi, sự dồn (kẻ địch)
- (thể dục,thể thao) quả bạt, quả tiu
- sự cố hắng, sự gắng sức, sự nổ lực; nghị lực
  - to have plenty of drive: có nhiều nỗ lực, có nhiều nghị lực
- chiều hướng, xu thế, sự tiến triển (của sự việc)
- đợt vận động, đợt phát động
  - a drive to raise funds: đợt vận động gây quỹ
  - an emulation drive: đợt phát động thi đua
- cuộc chạy đua
  - armanents drive: cuộc chạy đua vũ trang
- (quân sự) cuộc tấn công quyết liệt
- (ngành mỏ) đường hầm ngang
- (vật lý) sự truyền, sự truyền động
  - belt drive: sự truyền động bằng curoa
  - gear drive: sự truyền động bằng bánh răng

ngoại động từ, drove, driven
- dồn, xua, đánh đuổi, lùa, săn đuổi
  - to drive somebody into a corner: dồn ai vào góc; (bóng) dồn ai vào chân tường, dồn ai vào thế bí
  - to drive a cow to the field: đánh bò ra đồng
  - to drive the game: lùa thú săn
  - to drive the enemy out of the country: đánh đuổi quân thù ra khỏi đất nước
  - to drive a hoop: đánh vòng
- đi khắp, chạy khắp, sục sạo, lùng sục (một vùng)
  - to drive a district: chạy khắp cả vùng, sục sạo khắp vùng
- cho (máy) chạy, cầm cương (ngựa), lái (ô tô...)
- lái xe đưa đi, lái xe dẫn đi
  - to drive someone to a place: lái xe đưa ai đến nơi nào
- dồn vào thế, bắt buộc, khiến cho, làm cho
  - to be driven by circumstances to do something: bị hoàn cảnh dồn vào thế phải làm gì
  - to drive someone to despair: dồn ai vào tình trạng tuyệt vọng
  - to drive someone mad; to drive someone crazy; to drive someone out of his senses: làm cho ai phát điên lên
- bắt làm cật lực, bắt làm quá sức
  - to be hard driven: bị bắt làm quá sức
- cuốn đi, đánh giạt, làm trôi giạt (gió, dòng nước...)
  - to be driven ashore: bị đánh giạt vào bờ
- đóng (cọc, đinh...), bắt (vít), đào, xoi (đường hầm)
  - to drive a nail home: đóng đinh sâu hẳn vào, đóng ngập đầu đinh
- (thể dục,thể thao) tiu, bạt (bóng bàn)
- làm cho (máy...) chạy; đưa (quản bút viết...)
  - a dynamo driven by a turbine: máy phát điện chạy bằng tuabin
  - to drive a pen: đưa quản bút (chạy trên giấy), viết
- dàn xếp xong, ký kết (giao kèo mua bán...); làm (nghề gì)
  - to drive a bargain: dàn xếp xong việc mua bán, ký kết giao kèo mua bán
  - to drive a roaring trade: mua bán thịnh vượng
- hoãn lại, để lại, để chậm lại (một việc gì... đến một lúc nào)

nội động từ
- cầm cương ngựa, đánh xe, lái xe...
  - to drive too fast: lái (xe) nhanh quá
- đi xe; chạy (xe)
  - to drive round the lake: đi xe quanh hồ
  - the carriage drives up to the gate: xe ngựa chạy lên đến tận cổng
- (thể dục,thể thao) bạt bóng, tiu
- bị cuốn đi, bị trôi giạt
  - the ship drives before the storm: con tàu bị bão làm trôi giạt
  - clouds drive before the wind: mây bị gió cuốn đi
- lao vào, xô vào; đập mạnh, quất mạnh
  - the rain drives against the window-panes: mưa đạp mạnh vào ô kính cửa sổ
- (+ at) giáng cho một cú, bắn cho một phát đạn, ném cho một hòn đá ((cũng) to let drive at)
- (+ at) nhằm mục đích, có ý định, có ý muốn
  - what is he driving at?: hắn định nhằm cái gì?, hắn định có ý gì?
- (+ at) làm cật lực, lao vào mà làm (công việc gì)
- (pháp lý) tập trung vật nuôi để kiểm lại
- to drive along
  - đuổi, xua đuổi
- đi xe, lái xe, cho xe chạy
  - to drive along at 60km an hour: lái xe 60 km một giờ, cho xe chạy 60 km một giờ
- to drive away
  - đuổi đi, xua đuổi
- ra đi bằng xe
- khởi động (ô tô)
- (+ at) rán sức, cật lực
  - to drive away at one's work: rán sức làm công việc của mình, làm cật lực
- to drive back
  - đẩy lùi ((nghĩa đen) & (nghĩa bóng))
- lái xe đưa (ai) về
- trở về bằng xe, trở lại bằng xe
- to drive down
  - đánh xe đưa (ai) về (nông thôn, xa thành phố...)
- bắt (máy bay hạ cánh)
- đi xe về (nông thôn, nơi xa thành phố)
  - I shall drive down for the Sunday: tôi sẽ đi xe về nông thôn chơi ngày chủ nhật
- to drive in
  - đóng vào
- to drive in a nail: đóng một cái đinh
- đánh xe đưa (ai)
- lái xe vào, đánh xe vào
- to drive on
  - lôi kéo, kéo đi
- lái xe đi tiếp, đánh xe đi tiếp
- to drive out
  - đuổi ra khỏi; nhổ ra khỏi
- hất cẳng
- đi ra ngoài bằng xe; lái xe ra
- to drive through
  - dồn qua, chọc qua, đâm qua, xuyên qua
- to drive one's sword through someone's body: đâm gươm xuyên qua người ai
- lái xe qua, đi xe qua (thành phố...)
- to drive up
  - kéo lên, lôi lên
- chạy lên gần (xe hơi, xe ngựa...)
  - a carriage drove up to the door: chiếc xe ngựa chạy lên gần cửa

Advanced English dictionary

verb, noun
+ verb (drove )
vehicle
1 to operate a vehicle so that it goes in a particular direction: [V] Can you drive? + Don't drive so fast! + I drove to work this morning. + Shall we drive (= go there by car) or go by train? + [VN] He drives a taxi (= that is his job).
2 [VN] [usually +adv./prep.] to take sb somewhere in a car, taxi, etc: Could you drive me home?
3 [VN] to own or use a particular type of vehicle: What car do you drive?
machine
4 [VN] [usually passive] to provide the power that makes a machine work: a steam-driven locomotive
make sb do sth
5 [VN] to force sb to act in a particular way: The urge to survive drove them on. + You're driving yourself too hard.
6 to make sb very angry, crazy, etc. or to make them do sth extreme: [VN-ADJ] to drive sb crazy / mad + [VN to inf] Hunger drove her to steal. + [VN] Those kids are driving me to despair. + (humorous) It's enough to drive you to drink (= to make you start drinking too much alcohol)!
make sb / sth move
7 [VN +adv./prep.] to force sb/sth to move in a particular direction: to drive sheep into a field + The enemy was driven back.
hit / push
8 [VN +adv./prep.] to force sth to go in a particular direction or into a particular position by pushing it, hitting it, etc: to drive a nail into a piece of wood
make a hole
9 [VN +adv./prep.] to make an opening in or through sth by using force: They drove a tunnel through the solid rock.
in sport
10 to hit a ball with force, sending it forward: [VN] to drive the ball into the rough (= in golf) [also V]
wind / water
11 [VN] [usually +adv./prep.] to carry sth along: Huge waves drove the yacht onto the rocks.
12 [V] [usually +adv./prep.] to fall or move rapidly and with great force: The waves drove against the shore. + driving rain
Idioms: drive a coach and horses through sth to spoil sth, for example a plan
drive sth home (to sb) to make sb understand or accept sth, by saying it often, loudly, angrily, etc: You will really need to drive your point home.
drive sb insane to make sb more and more angry or irritated, especially over a long period of time: This job is driving me insane.
what sb is driving at the thing sb is trying to say: I wish I knew what they were really driving at.
more at GROUND n., HARD adj., SNOW n.
Phrasal Verbs: drive away
drive sb/sth away to leave in a vehicle; to take sb away in a vehicle: We heard him drive away. + Someone drove the car away in the night.
drive sb away to make sb not want to stay or not want to go somewhere: Her constant nagging drove him away. + Terrorist threats are driving away tourists.
drive off
1 (of a driver, car, etc.) to leave: The robbers drove off in a stolen vehicle.
2 (in golf) to hit the ball to begin a game
drive sb/sth<->off to force sb/sth to go back or away: The defenders drove off each attack.
drive on to continue driving: Don't stop-drive on!
drive sb/sth<->out (of sth) to make sb/sth disappear or stop doing sth: New fashions drive out old ones. + The supermarkets are driving small shopkeepers out of business.
drive sth<->up / down to make sth such as prices rise or fall quickly
+ noun
in / of vehicle
1 [C] a journey in a car or other vehicle: Let's go for a drive. + a drive through the mountains + It's a three-hour drive to London.
2 [C, U] the equipment in a vehicle that takes power from the engine to the wheels: the drive shaft + a car with four-wheel drive + a left- / right-hand drive car (= a car where the driver and the controls are on the left / right)
outside house
3 (also driveway) [C] a wide hard path or a private road that leads from the street to a house: There were two cars parked in / on the drive.
effort
4 [C] ~ (for sth)
~ (to do sth) an organized effort by a group of people to achieve sth: a recruitment / export / economy drive + a drive for greater efficiency + the government's drive to reduce energy consumption
desire / energy
5 [C, U] a strong desire or need in people: a strong sexual drive
6 [U] (approving) a strong desire to do things and achieve sth; great energy: He'll do very well-he has tremendous drive.
in sport
7 [C] a long hard hit or kick: She has a strong forehand drive (= in tennis). + He scored with a brilliant 25-yard drive (= for example, in football).
computing
8 [C] the part of a computer that reads and stores information on disks or tapes: a 224 MB hard drive + a CD drive
See also - DISK DRIVE
games
9 [C] (BrE) a social occasion when a lot of people compete in a game such as WHIST or BINGO
animals / enemy
10 [C] an act of chasing animals or the enemy and making them go into a smaller area, especially in order to kill or capture them
road
11 (Drive) (abbreviation Dr) used in the names of roads: 21 Island Heights Drive

Thesaurus dictionary

1 push, propel, impel, urge, press, thrust, move, motivate, actuate, prod, spur, goad, urge, force, make, compel, coerce, constrain, oblige, pressure or Brit pressurize, high-pressure, induce, require; demand:

What drove you to become a traitor?

2 operate, conduct, manoeuvre, manipulate, handle, steer, control; pilot:

Have you a valid licence to drive this car?

3 ride, travel, motor, go, move, proceed, journey, tour, Colloq tool along:

Luckily, when the tyre blew out, we were driving at only 20 m.p.h.

4 stab, plunge, thrust, sink, push, send, dig, ram:

He has driven the dagger deep into the monster's heart.

5 herd, drove, shepherd, ride herd (on):

We used to drive the cattle up the old Chisholm Trail to market in Abilene.

6 drive at. hint (at), suggest, imply, intimate, allude or refer to, intend, mean, have in mind, indicate, Colloq get at:

He was so naïve he had no idea what she was driving at.

7 ride, trip, outing, journey, run, tour, excursion, Colloq spin, whirl:

On Sundays we would go for a drive in the country.

8 energy, effort, impetus, vigour, vim, spunk, enterprise, industry, initiative, ambition, ambitiousness, determination, persistence, urgency, zeal, enthusiasm, keenness, aggressiveness, Colloq get-up-and-go, pep, zip, push, hustle:

She owes her success to her drive as well as her talent.

9 driveway, approach, (private) road or street, lane, byway, (scenic) route:

The drive up to the house is lined with trees.

10 campaign, effort, appeal, crusade:

The club has had a successful membership drive this year.

Collocation

¹ car journey

ADJ.

long | easy, short | eight-hour, sixty-mile, etc. | leisurely | pleasant, scenic

It's a pleasant drive to the coast.

| test

VERB + DRIVE

go for, take

Let's go for a drive.

PREP.

within a ~

All my family live within an hour's drive.

PHRASES

a … drive away

The lakes are only a short drive away.

² way a vehicle is moved

ADJ.

all-wheel, four-wheel, front-wheel, rear-wheel | left-hand, right-hand

Left-hand drive cars make driving in Britain difficult.

³ path/road outside a house

ADJ.

sweeping, winding | gravel/gravelled | tree-lined | private | front

DRIVE + VERB

sweep, swing

A gravel drive swept between manicured lawns.

PREP.

down the ~, in the ~, on the ~

There was a car parked on the drive.

| up the ~

He walked up the front drive of the vicarage.

⁴ energy/determination

ADJ.

competitive | personal | narrative

A lack of narrative drive leaves the reader with piecemeal vignettes.

VERB + DRIVE

have | lack

He lacks the competitive drive needed to succeed.

⁵ desire/need

ADJ.

innate, inner, instinctive/instinctual | creative | emotional, sex/sexual

⁶ effort

ADJ.

big | relentless | national, nationwide | cost-cutting, efficiency, export, fundraising, marketing, membership, modernization, recruitment, sales | anti-corruption, anti-drug, etc.

VERB + DRIVE

launch

We're going to launch a big recruitment drive in the autumn.

PREP.

~ against

a drive against corruption

| ~ by

the recent recruitment drive by the police

| ~ for

the country's drive for modernization

| ~ towards

a drive towards higher safety standards

⁷ computing

ADJ.

CD-ROM, disk, DVD, floppy, hard, zip

⁸ in sport

ADJ.

powerful, strong, thunderous | angled, crisp | left-foot, right-foot

(in football)Cole scored with a thunderous left-foot drive.

| backhand, forehand (in tennis)

a forehand drive down the line

VERB + DRIVE

hit | hook, slice

(in golf) > Special page at SPORT

ADV.

fast, quickly

You shouldn't drive so fast! She drove quickly back to the office.

| slowly | carefully | recklessly

He was arrested for driving recklessly.

| around, away, back, off, on

She got into the car and drove away.

PREP.

from, to

driving from London to Manchester

PHRASES

drink and drive

Concise dictionary

driven|drove|drives|drivingdraɪv
noun
+the act of applying force to propel something
+a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
+a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
+a road leading up to a private house
+the trait of being highly motivated
+hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
+the act of driving a herd of animals overland
+a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
+a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
+(computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
+a wide scenic road planted with trees
+(sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
verb
+operate or control a vehicle
+travel or be transported in a vehicle
+cause someone or something to move by driving
+force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
+to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
+cause to move back by force or influence
+compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment
+push, propel, or press with force
+cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
+strive and make an effort to reach a goal
+move into a desired direction of discourse
+have certain properties when driven
+work as a driver
+move by being propelled by a force
+urge forward
+proceed along in a vehicle
+strike with a driver, as in teeing off
+hit very hard and straight with the bat swinging more or less vertically
+excavate horizontally
+cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
+hunting: search for game
+hunting: chase from cover into more open ground

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