Parola del giorno in inglese

drive

guidare

Definizioni

inglese > italiano
drive
1. verb. condurre, guidare (una mandria, un'automobile)
2. verb. motivare
3. verb. guidare (un mezzo motorizzato)
4. verb. trasportare (su un mezzo motorizzato)
5. sost. viaggio, giro
6. sost. impulso
inglese > inglese
drive
1. subst. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.
2. subst. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
3. subst. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
4. subst. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.
5. subst. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use.
Some old model trains have clockwork drives.
6. subst. A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
It was a long drive.
7. subst. A driveway.
The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive.
8. subst. A type of public roadway.
Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive.
9. subst. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
10. subst. (psychology) Desire or interest.
11. subst. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
12. subst. (computing) 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.
13. subst. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
14. subst. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
15. subst. (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.
16. subst. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
17. subst. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
18. subst. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
a whist drive; a beetle drive
19. subst. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
20. subst. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
21. v. To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
to drive sheep out of a field
22. v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
23. v. To cause animals to flee out of.
24. v. To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
You drive nails into wood with a hammer.
25. v. To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
The pistons drive the crankshaft.
26. v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
drive a car
27. v. To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
What drives a person to run a marathon?
28. v. To compel (to do something).
Their debts finally drove them to sell the business.
29. v. To cause to become.
This constant complaining is going to drive me to insanity. You are driving me crazy!
30. v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
31. v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
I drive to work every day.
32. v. To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
My wife drove me to the airport.
33. v. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
34. v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
35. v. To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
36. v. To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
37. v. To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
38. v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
39. v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
40. v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
41. v. To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
italiano > inglese
guidare
1. v. to guide, lead, show, escort
2. v. to manage, run
3. v. (to operate a vehicle):
4. v. to drive
5. v. (intransitive) to be at the wheel
6. v. (intransitive) to be behind the wheel
7. v. (intransitive) to take the wheel