Word Type

Verb

Noun

The word "drive" can be used as verb and noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

idle inertia park parked passenger reverse ride stop walk walking

Typical Location

a golf course park strong person

Capable Of

provide beautiful scenery rotate disk street

Defined As

action of driving

Derived Terms

Alcubierre drive CD drive Chinese drive DVD drive Dean drive FTL drive French drive Geneva drive HD DVD drive Harrow drive I don't drive MD drive MO drive Orion drive Sussex Drive USB drive WORM drive Zip drive all-wheel drive back-seat drive bedrive beetle drive belt drive belt-drive bottle drive cassette drive cattle drive cattle-drive chain drive codrive compact disc drive constant speed drive counterdrive cover drive daily drive death drive disc drive disinformation drive diskette drive don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly drink and drive drivable drive Irish tandem drive a coach and horses through drive a coach and six through drive a hard bargain drive a nail in someone's coffin drive a nail where it will go drive a stake through its heart drive a truck through something drive a wedge drive a wedge between drive at drive away drive back drive by drive down drive home drive in drive into the ground drive letter drive off drive one's pigs to market drive out drive sale drive shaft drive shed drive someone crazy drive someone insane drive someone mad drive someone nuts drive someone to drink drive someone to the wall drive someone up the wall drive something into the ground drive stick drive the porcelain bus drive time drive to distraction drive to drink drive train drive truck drive up drive wheel drive-boat drive-bolt drive-by drive-by-wire drive-in drive-in drive-out drive-line drive-off drive-on drive-pipe drive-screw drive-shaft drive-shed drive-through drive-through penalty drive-thru drive-time drive-train drive-volley drive-wheel drive-whist drive-yourself driveable driveaway drivebolt drivee drivehead driveless drivelike driveline driven driven element drivepipe driver driveshaft driveshed drivethrough drivetrain driving drivingly feed drive final drive fixed disc drive fixed disk drive fixed drive floppy disc drive floppy disk drive floppy diskette drive fordrive front-wheel drive game drive gene drive hard disc drive hard disk drive hard-driving hyperdrive hyperspace drive impossible drive information drive kelly drive lamington drive let drive line drive line-out drive lofted drive log drive memory drive microdrive mid-drive misdrive misinformation drive molecular drive multidrive non-Newtonian drive off drive on drive optical disc drive optical disk drive optical drive outdrive overdrive overdrive pen drive piledrive prey drive reaction drive reactionless drive rear-wheel drive redrive screw drive self-drive self-driving servo drive slot-loading disc drive solid-state drive space drive spacedrive square drive star drive star-drive stardrive sterndrive take for a drive tape drive test drive thumb drive todrive top drive torch drive two-wheel drive ultradrive underdrive war-drive wardrive wardrive

Distinct From

neutral park passenger reverse walk

Entails

ride

Context

american football baseball computer science computing cricket driving golf hunt military mining psychology soccer sport squash tennis typography

First Subevents

check mirrors get into car get into vehicle start car walk watch road carefully

Last Subevents

buckle up come to stop

Prerequisites

buy car driving permit fasten seatbelt get car get car keys get driver's license get in car get in vehicle get keys get license get license and vehicle go outdoors go to golf course have car have driving license have good tires have license hold steering wheel learn how boat works learn how to drive locate car keys put on glasses single minded of purpose start car start cars engine start engine stay sober steal car steer take driver's education use correct golf club use driver walk to car

Subevents

adjust for weather adjust for wind caddy gives advice caddy gives tip car consumes gasoline center fairway close car door crashing into cell phone user everyone around stays quiet gas tank becomes empty hit tree hitting ball straight and long hole in one insult others drivers insulting others drivers land in trap land in water listen to radio might have wreck miss ball pay attention running out of gas slice steer stop at traffic lights take practice swing first turn steering wheel use driver use tee use wood walk to follow ball watch other automobiles watch out for other cars

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

actuation carry coerce control conveyance cover cross cut across cut through device dig displace do work excavate fight force function get across get over go golf shot golf stroke hale hit hollow hunt hunt down impel intend journey journeying locomote loft make mean mechanism move operate pass over physical condition physiological condition physiological state power pressure propel propulsion push return road route run squeeze struggle swing throw thrust track track down trait transfer transferral transport transport transportation travel traverse venture work

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

Blu-ray drive Shkadov drive blood drive bridge drive disk drive flash drive floppy drive food drive four-wheel drive four-wheel-drive hard drive jump drive key drive left-hand drive reduction drive right-hand drive sex drive test-drive toy drive warp drive zip drive

Type Of (IsA)

device golf stroke journey mechanism medical condition physiological state propulsion return road trait transportation

Manner Of

coerce excavate hit hunt make mean move operate power propel push throw transport travel traverse work

Motivated By Goal

can travel to places cruise get from one place to another get someplace go somewhere have car need to get somewhere need to get to work need to go somewhere travel to another place use gas

Related Terms

drave drift drove

Related Terms

ability about about car action action car action of activity advance afternoon ambition animal approach arc around auto automobile automobile movement automobile piloting automotive automotive activity bake sale ball bat behind behind wheel brake braking bus by car ca car car action car activity car bus car control car function car gear car go car handling car journey car motion car move car movement car moving car navigation car operating car operation car pilot car piloting car steering car task car transportation car travel car trip car use car using car way cars cars do cation cause causing causing movement change change gears command command vehicle compel conduct conduct auto conducting conducting car control control auto control car control vehicle controlling controlling car controlling cars coupled cover data desire device direct direct car disk distrain diver do do cars do to do with down down road driver driveway drove energy first down flash drive float floppy drive for cars force forcefully forward four four wheels front front approach function fundraiser gas gear gears get places get somewhere getting getting around getting places go go motor go motoring go somewhere going going somewhere golf golf hit golf shot golf swing got got it guide guide car hammering hammering action handling hard drive hit holding holding wheel house hunt impression in car in cars in vehicle in yard incentive insertion interest journey left left side licence license like like drove like pilot locomotion log make make go manage manage car maneuvering manipulate manipulate car manipulating manipulating car manoeuvre manoeuvre car mass mass storage matrix mechanism method midwicket motion motivate motivation motor motor vehicle motoring motorize move move car movement moving moving around moving car moving cars nail nail insertion navigate navigate car navigation objective on wheels operate operate automobile operate ca operate car operate vehicle operating operating car operating cars operation pass pass test passenger passenger car passengers person pilot pilot car piloting piloting automobile places potential propel propel car provide public punch drift push read related related car rent reverse ride ride car riding river road roads roadway run run car running running car self shot side skill somewhere steer steer brake steer car steer it steer vehicle steering steering braking steering motion steering wheel stores straight strategic street stroke subsequent sunday sunday afternoon sustained swing task test toy drive trajectory transport transportation transporting transporting self travel travel method traveling traveling motion trip turn turn brake urge use use car using vehicle vehicle action vehicle activity vehicle operation vehicular vehicular movement vertical way way move what what do what you wheel wheeled wheels with car with cars work work car write yard you do

Similar Terms

bear on beat back force force back motor push push back ram repel repulse ride take

Synonym Network

ambition approach attack avenue campaign compel desire disk drive driveway engine force herd impel line drive make move repel ride take tug

Used For

enjoying countryside going on short trip going somewhere have good time inserting floppy discs moving from one place to another park on playing cds seeing scenary seeing sights sending golf ball showing off convertible storing data storing information testing car use computer

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.