drive
verb (drive, drives, drove, driven, driving); noun (a drive, drives)
Everyday
- To drive is to make a car, bus or truck go and steer it. tree →
- A drive is a trip in a car. tree →
- To drive someone is to take them in a car. tree →
- A drive (driveway) is the short road from the street to a house. tree →
- To drive is also to push or make something move, like driving a nail. tree →
- Drive is strong wish to do something; a drive is also a part of a computer that stores files. tree →
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 Jewish tradition
Often means to force out, as when God drives out the nations from the land. It can also mean to chase or push away, as the wicked drive off a poor person's animal or a psalmist prays not to be driven away.
Interpretation. The driving out of the nations is read as God's gift of the land to Israel, and the commentators teach it would happen "little by little". The book of Judges shows tribes that did not drive out the Canaanites, which the tradition reads as a lack of faith or effort.
Examples
- 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) tree →
- 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) tree →
- 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) tree →
- They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. (Writings JOB.24.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- 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) tree →
- 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) tree →
Note
Speed × time gives distance; distance ÷ speed gives time. Trap: «drive to work and back» doubles the distance. Past: drove; has driven.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «drive» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «drive» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
- Trees and pragmatics of «drive» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «drive» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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