driven
part of speech
verb (drive, drives, drove, driven, driving); adjective (driven = very keen to succeed)
meaning for a pupil
1) Driven is a form of drive: to make a car, bus or train move and steer it. tree →
2) Driven means taken somewhere in a car: «she was driven to school». tree →
3) Driven means pushed or moved by something: «a wind-driven mill». tree →
4) A driven person works very hard to reach a goal. tree →
5) Forced into a state, as when grief drives someone mad. tree →
sense in the lessons
distance travelled by car: miles driven, speed × time; in science: machines driven by electricity, wind or water; in everyday life and safety: wear a seat belt whenever you are driven anywhere; in stories: a driven hero who never gives up
examples
- He has driven 120 miles. tree →
- The car is driven 40 miles a day. tree →
- How far had she driven after 3 hours? tree →
- They have driven half the way. tree →
- We were driven to the airport by Uncle Joe. tree →
- The old mill was driven by the river. tree →
- She is a driven player who trains every day. tree →
- Have you ever driven a go-kart? tree →
note
Distance done; distance left = whole trip − driven. Irregular: drive, drove, (has) driven. Not «drived». Use «driven» after «has/have/had» or «was/were».
In the corpora
- It may be the first dolphin driven extinct by people, through boats, nets, electric fishing and dams.
- I should like to be able to tell my friends that once I had driven a motor-car!»
- Wood gives off gases that burn with flames; charcoal has already had its gases driven off, so it glows instead.
- It turned out he had driven a delivery van for thirty years and «knew how corners work».
- Mechanical clocks spread in Europe from about 1300, and China built a great water-driven clock tower in the 1090s.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «driven» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.