📖 D — The English dictionary · page 56

drive — Everyday, meaning 1: To drive is to make a car, bus or truck go and steer it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A drive is a trip in a car.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To drive someone is to take them in a car.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A drive (driveway) is the short road from the street to a house.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To drive is also to push or make something move, like driving a nail.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Drive is strong wish to do something; a drive is also a part of a computer that stores files.↗ Example: They drive 60 miles an hour.↗ · She drives 12 km to work.↗ · How long is the drive?↗ · He drives 3 hours each day.↗ · Mum drives me to football practice.↗ · It is a two-hour drive to the beach.↗ · Park the car in the drive.↗ · Always wear your seatbelt when someone drives.↗ · Save the file on the drive.↗ · Come and drive away this bull!"↗ · By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.↗ (Torah EXO.23.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.↗ (Torah EXO.23.28, JPS 1917)↗ · then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.↗ (Torah DEU.11.23, JPS 1917)↗ · They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.↗ (Writings JOB.24.3, JPS 1917)↗ · but the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.↗ (Prophets JDG.1.32, JPS 1917)↗ · Let not the foot of pride overtake me, and let not the hand of the wicked drive me away.↗ (Writings PSA.36.12, JPS 1917)↗

driven — Everyday, meaning 1: Driven is a form of drive: to make a car, bus or train move and steer it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Driven means taken somewhere in a car: «she was driven to school».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Driven means pushed or moved by something: «a wind-driven mill».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A driven person works very hard to reach a goal.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Forced into a state, as when grief drives someone mad.↗ Example: He has driven 120 miles.↗ · The car is driven 40 miles a day.↗ · How far had she driven after 3 hours?↗ · They have driven half the way.↗ · We were driven to the airport by Uncle Joe.↗ · The old mill was driven by the river.↗ · She is a driven player who trains every day.↗ · Have you ever driven a go-kart?↗ · and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the LORD, until He hath driven out His enemies from before Him, (Torah NUM.32.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Not so; go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that is what ye desire.'↗ And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.↗ (Torah EXO.10.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep driven away, and hide thyself from them; thou shalt surely bring them back unto thy brother.↗ (Torah DEU.22.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf?↗ (Writings JOB.13.25, JPS 1917)↗ · He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.↗ (Writings JOB.18.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy holy people they have well nigh driven out, our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.↗ (Prophets ISA.63.18, JPS 1917)↗

driver — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who drives a car, bus, truck or train.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A program that helps a computer use a device (device driver).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A golf club used for long shots.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Something that makes something else happen.↗ e.g. "a driver of change".↗ Example: The bus driver waved to us.↗ · Make sure the driver can see you.↗ · My dad is a careful driver.↗ · The truck driver delivered the parcels.↗ · A racing driver goes very fast.↗ · Learner drivers have an L plate.↗ · Never get into a car with a driver you don't know.↗ · Install the printer driver.↗ · And the driver of the wagon?↗ · He scorneth the tumult of the city, neither heareth he the shoutings of the driver.↗ (Writings JOB.39.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And the Arameans fled before Israel; and David slew of the Arameans seven hundred drivers of chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, so that he died there.↗ (Prophets 2SA.10.18, JPS 1917)↗

driveway — Everyday, meaning 1: A short private road or paved area that leads from the street to a house or garage, where cars are parked.↗ Example: Dad parked the car in the driveway.↗ · Never play in the driveway when cars are moving.↗ · We chalked pictures on our driveway.↗ · Watch for cars backing out of driveways.↗ · We shovelled snow off the driveway.↗ · The driveway is 15 metres long.↗ · A tall hedge lines the driveway.↗ · Our bikes are leaning against the wall by the driveway.↗

drizzle — Everyday, meaning 1: Drizzle is light rain falling in very small, fine drops.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To drizzle (weather) means to rain lightly.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In cooking, to drizzle is to pour a thin stream of liquid over food, such as honey or oil.↗ Example: It's only drizzle, so we can still walk to school.↗ · A cold drizzle fell all afternoon.↗ · It started to drizzle as we left the park.↗ · Drizzle honey over the pancakes.↗ · Mum drizzled lemon icing on the cake.↗ · The forecast says drizzle in the morning, sun later.↗ · Soon it began to drizzle; then the drops came faster, and there was a regular down-pour.↗

drizzly — Everyday, meaning 1: Drizzly describes weather with light, fine rain falling steadily.↗ Example: It was a drizzly morning in Dublin.↗ · We played outside even though it was drizzly.↗ · The forecast says drizzly with sunny spells.↗ · A drizzly day makes the windows misty.↗ · It's been drizzly all week.↗

droll — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) funny in a quiet, odd or amusing way.↗ Example: The clown made a droll face.↗ · That was a droll joke.↗ · "How droll the world is!" he laughed.↗

dromaeosaur — Everyday, meaning 1: A kind of small to medium meat-eating dinosaur with feathers and a big curved claw on each foot, like Velociraptor.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A member of the dinosaur family Dromaeosauridae, known as «raptors».↗ Example: Velociraptor was a dromaeosaur about the size of a turkey.↗ · Dromaeosaurs had feathers like birds.↗ · The museum showed a dromaeosaur's curved toe claw.↗ · Scientists think dromaeosaurs were fast and clever hunters.↗ · Microraptor was a tiny dromaeosaur with four wings.↗ · Dromaeosaur fossils have been found in Mongolia and North America.↗

dromedary — Everyday, meaning 1: A camel with one hump, found in North Africa, the Middle East and India, and also living wild in central Australia.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) A fast camel bred for riding.↗ Example: A dromedary has one hump on its back.↗ · Dromedaries can walk for days without water.↗ · Australia has many wild dromedaries in the outback.↗ · We rode a dromedary at the desert camp.↗ · The Bactrian camel has two humps, but the dromedary has only one.↗ · The dromedary's hump is full of fat.↗ · Let him be bound and placed on a dromedary.↗

drone — Everyday, meaning 1: A drone is a small aircraft without a pilot, controlled from the ground or by a computer.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A drone is a male bee that does no work.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A drone is a low, steady humming sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To drone on is to talk for a long time in a dull, boring voice.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A lazy person who does no work and lives off others.↗ Example: He flies a drone in the park.↗ · The drone took a photo of our school from above.↗ · Drones must stay away from airports.↗ · A drone is a male bee.↗ · We heard the drone of a plane far away.↗ · The speaker droned on for an hour.↗ · Drones can help find lost hikers.↗ · They begin the New Year by going to bed, and that's a good beginning for drones.↗

drool — Everyday, meaning 1: To drool means to let spit (saliva) run out of your mouth, like a baby or a hungry dog.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) To drool over something means to want it very much or to admire it in a silly way.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) Drool is the spit that runs from someone's mouth.↗ Example: The baby drooled all over my shirt.↗ · Our dog drools when he smells sausages.↗ · I woke up and there was drool on my pillow.↗ · My brother drools over every new video game.↗ · The cakes in the window made me drool.↗ · Babies drool a lot when they are teething.↗ · Wipe the drool off your chin!↗

droop — Everyday, meaning 1: To hang or bend down because of being weak, tired or without water, as in «The flowers drooped in the heat».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To become sad or lose energy, as in «His spirits drooped».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A downward bend or slope.↗ Example: The sunflowers drooped in the hot sun.↗ · Water the plant before it droops.↗ · My eyelids drooped during the long film.↗ · The puppy's ears droop when it is sad.↗ · His shoulders drooped when he heard the bad news.↗ · The tent drooped after the rain.↗ · He gave it water, but still it drooped.↗

drooping — Everyday, meaning 1: Hanging or bending down, especially because of weakness, tiredness or lack of water, as in «drooping flowers».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Becoming sad or losing energy, as in «drooping spirits».↗ Example: The drooping roses needed water.↗ · She had drooping eyelids after the sleepover.↗ · The old dog walked with a drooping tail.↗ · His drooping shoulders told us he had lost.↗ · The willow tree has long, drooping branches.↗ · The balloons were drooping by the end of the party.↗ · He sat on the edge of his nest, his head drooping and his feathers all ruffled, looking the picture of misery.↗ · But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee, and their hope shall be the drooping of the soul.↗ (Writings JOB.11.20, JPS 1917)↗

droopy — Everyday, meaning 1: Hanging down loosely or tiredly, like wilting flowers, floppy ears or a sagging tent.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Tired, sad or without energy.↗ Example: The sunflowers were droopy because we forgot to water them.↗ · The basset hound has long droopy ears.↗ · My socks are droopy and keep falling down.↗ · After the long walk I felt a bit droopy.↗ · His droopy eyelids showed he needed sleep.↗ · The tent was droopy in the rain.↗

drop — Everyday, meaning 1: To drop is to let something fall from your hand; what you drop is lost to you.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To drop is to fall or go down: «The temperature dropped».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To drop someone off is to take them somewhere in a car and leave them there.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A drop is a very small amount of liquid, like a drop of rain.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A drop is a fall in an amount: «a drop in price».↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To drop off means to fall asleep.↗ Example: Sam drops 5 balloons.↗ · Mia had 12 eggs and dropped 3.↗ How many eggs are not dropped?↗ · Ben dropped 4 of his 10 marbles.↗ · The temperature dropped by 6 degrees overnight.↗ · Dad drops us off at school at 8.↗ · Add two drops of food colouring to the water.↗ · Big drops of rain hit the window.↗ · Don't drop your ice cream!↗ · At last he dropped off to sleep.↗ · Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olives shall drop off.↗ (Torah DEU.28.40, JPS 1917)↗ · And Israel dwelleth in safety, the fountain of Jacob alone, in a land of corn and wine; yea, his heavens drop down dew.↗ (Torah DEU.33.28, JPS 1917)↗ · My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew; as the small rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.↗ (Torah DEU.32.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?↗ (Writings JOB.38.28, JPS 1917)↗ · Which the skies pour down and drop upon the multitudes of men.↗ (Writings JOB.36.28, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou crownest the year with Thy goodness; and Thy paths drop fatness.↗ (Writings PSA.65.12, JPS 1917)↗

droplet — Everyday, meaning 1: A droplet is a very small drop of liquid.↗ Example: Clouds are made of tiny water droplets.↗ · Droplets formed on the cold can.↗ · Dew droplets sparkled on the grass.↗ · Sneezes spread germs in droplets.↗ · Cover your mouth when you cough to stop droplets.↗ · Droplets of rain ran down the window.↗

dropper — Everyday, meaning 1: A small tube, usually glass or plastic, with a rubber bulb at the top, used to take up a liquid and let it out drop by drop.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Someone who drops something, as in a name-dropper (someone who boasts about famous people they know).↗ Example: Use the dropper to add three drops of food colouring.↗ · The nurse gave the baby medicine with a dropper.↗ · We put iodine on the potato with a dropper.↗ · Squeeze the bulb gently, or the dropper will squirt.↗ · Eye drops come in a little dropper bottle.↗ · Count each drop from the dropper carefully.↗