drive

«drive» in Mova's school dictionary: to make a car, bus or truck go and steer it — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (drive, drives, drove, driven, driving); noun (a drive, drives)

meaning for a pupil

1) To drive is to make a car, bus or truck go and steer it. tree →

2) A drive is a trip in a car. tree →

3) To drive someone is to take them in a car. tree →

4) A drive (driveway) is the short road from the street to a house. tree →

5) To drive is also to push or make something move, like driving a nail. tree →

6) Drive is strong wish to do something; a drive is also a part of a computer that stores files. tree →

sense in the lessons

maths: travel in a car with distance, speed and time; distance = speed × time, time = distance ÷ speed; there and back doubles; everyday life: Dad drives us to school, a long drive to the beach, the car in the drive; safety: wear a seatbelt, children sit in the back; computing: save to the drive

examples

• They drive 60 miles an hour. tree →
• She drives 12 km to work. tree →
• How long is the drive? tree →
• He drives 3 hours each day. tree →
• Mum drives me to football practice. tree →
• It is a two-hour drive to the beach. tree →
• Park the car in the drive. tree →
• Always wear your seatbelt when someone drives. tree →
• Save the file on the drive. tree →
• Come and drive away this bull!" tree →

note

Speed × time gives distance; distance ÷ speed gives time. Trap: «drive to work and back» doubles the distance. Past: drove; has driven.

In the corpora

• Online cruelty drives real people off social media; memes mocking someone's looks are bullying, even when lots of people share them.
• Self-driving vehicles are being tested, and their safety must be proven before they are used everywhere.
• Lionesses hunt together, some driving prey towards others hiding in ambush, so they can catch animals as strong as buffalo.
• It may be the first dolphin driven extinct by people, through boats, nets, electric fishing and dams.
• It's enough to drive one crazy!", calls him "perfectly idiotic", and goes in.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «drive» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.