drive

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for drive

drive 🔊 /dɹajˈv/

drive : ප්‍රාජකය

drive : දඩයම

drive : ගසාගෙන යනවා

drive : එලවනවා

drive : පරිශ්‍රමය

drive : රිය පදවාගෙන යනවා

drive : ප්‍රාපකය

drive : ධාවකය

drive : ප්‍රේරණය

drive : ගෙනයනවා

drive : එලවුම

drive : දක්කනවා

drive : බලවත් ව්‍යාපාරය

drive : පැද යනවා

drive : එලැවුම

drive : වේගවත් පහ

drive : එලැවීම

drive : රථයෙන් යන ගමන

drive : පදවනවා

drive : පලවා හරිනවා

drive : ප්‍රාජනය

drive : එළවනවා

drive : බලපානවා

drive definition

Transitive verb.

  1. To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.
  2. To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door.
  3. To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like.
  4. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
  5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
  6. To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
  7. To pass away; -- said of time.

Intransitive verb.

  1. To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.
  2. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.
  3. To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door.
  4. To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at.
  5. To distrain for rent.

Past Participle. Driven.

Noun.

  1. The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.
  2. A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
  3. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; Especially., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
  4. In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.
  5. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.