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drive-in

US pronunciation
American sounddrive in
drivein
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drive - in -> drive in

Myanmar meaning

(n) ကားမောင်းဝင်၍ ထိုင်ရာမထ မှာစားနိုင်သောဆိုင်၊ ကြည့်နိုင်သော ရုပ်ရှင် စသည်။

Full entry

drive /draÇv/ v (pt drove /drǝƱv/ ; pp driven /'drÇvn/)

၁။ (က) ယာဉ်မောင်းသည်။
Can you drive? ❍ He drives a taxi (ie that is his job). ❍ I drive (ie own) a Renault.
(ခ) ကားနှင့်သွားသည်။ ကားမောင်းသွားသည်။ Did you drive or go by train? ❍ I drive to work. ❍ Don't stop—drive on! မရပ်နဲ့ ဆက်မောင်း။ ❍ travel
(ဂ) ကားမောင်းပို့သည်။
Could you drive me home/to the airport?
၂။ (လူ၊ တိရစ္ဆာန်ကို) မောင်းသည်၊ နှင်သည်၊ တိုက်ထုတ်သည်။ drive sheep into a field ❍ Poor harvests have driven the farmers off the land. ❍ The enemy was driven back. ❍ (fig ) economic factors that drive inflation up.
၃။ ရေ၊ လေတို့ သယ်ဆောင်သွားသည်။ dead leaves driven along by the wind ❍ Huge waves drove the yacht onto the rocks.
၄။ အရှိန်ပြင်းစွာ ရိုက်ခတ်သည်။ The waves drove against the shore.
၅။ (က) ရိုက်သွင်းသည်။ drive a nail into wood/a stake into the ground.
(ခ) ဖောက်သည်။ ထွင်းသည်။ They drove a tunnel through the solid rock.
၆။ (က) တိုက်တွန်းသည်။ လှုံ့ဆော်သည်။ စေ့ဆော်သည်။ A man driven by jealousy is capable of anything. ❍ The urge to survive drove them on.
(ခ) တွန်းပို့သည်။ drive sb crazy/to insanity/out of their mind ❍ Hunger drove her to steal.
(ဂ) တွန်းထိုးလုပ်သည်။ အတင်းခိုင်းသည်၊ မောင်း သည်။ Unless he stops driving himself like this he'll have a breakdown. ❍ He drives the team relentlessly.
၇။ (sport ) (ဂေါက်သီး စသည်ကို) အရှိန်ပြင်းပြင်းရိုက်သည်။ drive (the ball) into the rough (ie in golf) ❍ He drives beautifully (ie plays this stroke well).
၈။ (esp passive) …ဖြင့်မောင်းနှင်သည်။ a steam-driven locomotive.
n
၁။ [C] ကားဖြင့်အပျော်ခရီးထွက်ခြင်း။ ကား လျှောက်စီးခြင်း။ Let's go for a drive in the country. ❍ He took me out for a drive. ❍ a forty minute/an hour's/a fifteen mile drive.
၂။ (also driveway ) [C] ကိုယ်ပိုင်လမ်း။ ခြံတွင်းလမ်း။ ❍ house1
၃။ [C] (sport) ရိုက်ချက်။ a forehand/backhand drive (eg in tennis).
၄။ [U] စိတ်ဓာတ်ခွန်အား။ တက်ကြွမှု။ She's certainly not lacking in drive.
၅။ [C, U] အလိုဆန္ဒ။ (a) strong sexual drive.
၆။ [C] (က) တွန်းအားပေးမှု။ လှုံ့ဆော်လှုပ်ရှားမှု။ plan a sales/a recruiting/an export drive.
(ခ) အဟုန်ပြင်းသော ထိုးစစ်။
၇။ [C] (Brit) အပျော် ဖဲဝိုင်း။ a bridge/whist drive.
၈။ [C, U] … မောင်း။ …ယက်။ front-/rear-/four-wheel drive (ie where the engine makes the front, back, or all four wheels turn) ❍ a car with left-hand drive (ie with the steering-wheel (STEER1) and other controls on the left) ❍ the drive shaft. See also DISK DRIVE
၉။ Drive (လမ်းအမည်၌ သုံးသည်)။ Rodeo Drive.
❏ be driving at [IDM ] ဆိုလိုသည်။ What are you driving at? ❍ I wish I knew what they were really driving at.
❏ drive sth home (to sb) [IDM ] သဘောပေါက်၊ လက်ခံ အောင် ထပ်တလဲလဲပြောသည်။ ကျယ်ကျယ်ပြောသည်။ ဒေါနှင့် မောနှင့် ပြောသည်။ သဘောပေါက်သွားစေသည်။ drive one's point home ❍ The financial crisis has at last driven home (to the government) the need for a change in policy.
❏ drive-in (also drive-through, drive-thru ) n (US ) ကားမောင်းဝင်၍ ထိုင်ရာမထ မှာစားနိုင်သောဆိုင်၊ ကြည့်နိုင်သော ရုပ်ရှင် စသည်။ drive-in movies ❍ a drive-thru bank.
❏ drive off [PHRV ]
၁။ မောင်းပြေးသည်။ မောင်းထွက်သွား သည်။ The robbers drove off in a stolen vehicle.
၂။ ဂေါက်သီး စတင်ရိုက်သည်၊ ပွဲစသည်။
❏ drive sb off [PHRV ] ကားတင်ပြေးသည်။
❏ drive sb/sth off [PHRV ] တိုက်ထုတ်သည်။ မောင်းထုတ် သည်။ drive the enemy off.
❏ drive sb/sth out (of sth) [PHRV ] နှင်ထုတ်သည်။ မောင်းထုတ်သည်။ ပျောက်ကွယ်စေသည်။ The supermarkets are driving small shopkeepers out of business.
❏ drive a wedge between sb and sb [IDM ] သပ်လျှိုသည်။ ရန်တိုက်ပေးသည်။ သွေးခွဲသည်။

More examples
  • Usually, my sister drives and I read the map.
  • You will drive carefully, won’t you?
  • [drive along/down/through etc] : He drove along for several miles before he saw anyone.
  • [drive something along/into etc] : He drove his truck into a wall.
  • Can’t you drive?
  • I’ve been driving for 15 years and I’ve never had an accident.
  • Dad will drive us.
  • [drive someone to/from something] : Lee drove me to the airport.
  • She drives a bus for a living.
  • We usually drive to Italy, but this year we’re flying.
  • [drive someone to do something] : Desperation finally drove her to ask for help.
  • [drive someone to something] : People are being driven to violence by police action.
  • [drive someone out of business] : Supermarkets are driving small shops out of business.
  • [drive someone crazy/mad/up the wall/round the bend] : Will you stop that humming, you’re driving me mad!
  • [drive someone to desperation/despair] : Driven to desperation, he began to steal from his employer.
  • [drive someone to drink] : It’s enough to drive you to drink.
  • [drive someone from/out of/off/away from something] : This malicious gossip has driven her out of the village.
  • [drive someone from/out of something] : Thousands of people have been driven from their homes by the fighting.
  • Swarms of mosquitoes drove us inside the house.
  • The pump is driven by an electric motor.
  • The coach really drives his team, but he gets good results.
  • [drive yourself] : We think you’ve been driving yourself too hard.
  • We want to find out what drives a successful businesswoman like Sylvia.
  • Douglas was driven by a need to learn the truth.
Synonyms
force, make, coerce, constrain, impel, compel, oblige, Sunday drive, act upon, action, actuate, advance, airing, ambition, animate, appeal, arouse, batter, bear down, beat, bicycle, bike, bulldoze, burn rubber, burn up the road, butt, campaign, cause to move, chase, chauffeur, clout, coast, commute, cruise, crusade, cycle, dash, desire, determination, dig, direct, dog, drag, effort, egg on, encourage, energy, enterprise, excursion, expedition, fire in belly, fire up, floor it, fly, fundraiser, get-up-and-go, goad, goods, goose, guide, gumption, guts, hammer, handle, harass, hasten, herd, hitch, hound, hurl, hurry, hustle, impellent, impetus, impulse, induce, initiative, inspire, instigate, instinct, jackhammer, jaunt, joyride, kick, knock, lead, lean on, lean on it, lift, make sparks fly, manage, maul, mobilize, momentum, motivate, motivation, motive, motor, moving, moxie, nag, need, operate, outing, overburden, overwork, passion, pep, pickup, pilot, plunge, pop, pound, pour it on, power, press, pressure, prod, prompt, propel, provoke, punch, push, put up to, railroad, ram, ramble, ride, ride herd on, right stuff, roll, rouse, run, rush, send, set in motion, shepherd, shoot, shove, sink, smite, sock, speed, spin, spirit up, spunk, spur, stab, start, steam, steamroll, steer, step on it, step on the gas, stick, stimulate, strike, stuff, surge, tailgate
Antonyms
apathy, calm, check, cowardice, curb, dally, delay, depress, discourage, discouragement, dissuade, enervation, halt, help, hinder, hindrance, hold, idleness, impede, inactivity, keep, laziness, leave alone, let go, lethargy, lose, mismanage, neglect, please, prevent, procrastinate, pull, remain, repress, rest, retard, slow, stand, stay, stop, wait, walk
Cross references
forcemakecoerceconstrainimpelcompelobligeSunday driveact uponactionactuateadvanceairingambitionanimateappealarousebatterbear downbeatbicyclebikebulldozeburn rubberburn up the roadbuttcampaigncause to move
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