Drive

Definition

drive /draÇv/ v ( pt drove /drǝƱv/ ; pp driven /'drÇvn/) ၁။ (က) ယာဥ္ေမာင္းသည္။ Can you drive? ❍ He drives a taxi (ie that is his job). ❍ I drive (ie own) a Renault. (ခ) ကားႏွင့္သြားသည္။ ကားေမာင္းသြားသည္။ Did you drive or go by train? ❍ I drive to work. ❍ Don't stop—drive on! မရပ္နဲ႔ ဆက္ေမာင္း။ ❍ travel (ဂ) ကားေမာင္းပို႔သည္။ Could you drive me home/to the airport? ၂။ (လူ၊ တိရစၧာန္ကို) ေမာင္းသည္၊ ႏွင္သည္၊ တိုက္ထုတ္သည္။ 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။ ေရ၊ ေလတို႔ သယ္ေဆာင္သြားသည္။ dead leaves driven along by the wind ❍ Huge waves drove the yacht onto the rocks. ၄။ အရိွန္ျပင္းစြာ ႐ိုက္ခတ္သည္။ The waves drove against the shore. ၅။ (က) ႐ိုက္သြင္းသည္။ drive a nail into wood/a stake into the ground. (ခ) ေဖာက္သည္။ ထြင္းသည္။ They drove a tunnel through the solid rock. ၆။ (က) တိုက္တြန္းသည္။ လံႈ႕ေဆာ္သည္။ ေစ့ေဆာ္သည္။ A man driven by jealousy is capable of anything. ❍ The urge to survive drove them on. (ခ) တြန္းပို႔သည္။ drive sb crazy/to insanity/out of their mind ❍ Hunger drove her to steal. (ဂ) တြန္းထိုးလုပ္သည္။ အတင္းခိုင္းသည္၊ ေမာင္း သည္။ Unless he stops driving himself like this he'll have a breakdown. ❍ He drives the team relentlessly. ၇။ ( sport ) (ေဂါက္သီး စသည္ကို) အရိွန္ျပင္းျပင္း႐ိုက္သည္။ drive (the ball) into the rough (ie in golf) ❍ He drives beautifully (ie plays this stroke well). ၈။ (esp passive) …ျဖင့္ေမာင္းႏွင္သည္။ a steam-driven locomotive. n ၁။ [C] ကားျဖင့္အေပ်ာ္ခရီးထြက္ျခင္း။ ကား ေလွ်ာက္စီးျခင္း။ 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] ကိုယ္ပိုင္လမ္း။ ၿခံတြင္းလမ္း။ ❍ house 1 ၃။ [C] (sport) ႐ိုက္ခ်က္။ a forehand/backhand drive (eg in tennis). ၄။ [U] စိတ္ဓာတ္ခြန္အား။ တက္ႂကြမႈ။ She's certainly not lacking in drive. ၅။ [C, U] အလိုဆႏၵ။ (a) strong sexual drive. ၆။ [C] (က) တြန္းအားေပးမႈ။ လံႈ႕ေဆာ္လႈပ္ရွားမႈ။ plan a sales/a recruiting/an export drive. (ခ) အဟုန္ျပင္းေသာ ထိုးစစ္။ ၇။ [C] (Brit) အေပ်ာ္ ဖဲဝိုင္း။ a bridge/whist drive. ၈။ [C, U] … ေမာင္း။ …ယက္။ 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 (STEER 1 ) and other controls on the left) ❍ the drive shaft. See also DISK DRIVE ၉။ Drive (လမ္းအမည္၌ သံုးသည္)။ Rodeo Drive. ❏ be driving at [ IDM ] ဆိုလိုသည္။ What are you driving at? ❍ I wish I knew what they were really driving at. ❏ drive sth home (to sb) [ IDM ] သေဘာေပါက္၊ လက္ခံ ေအာင္ ထပ္တလဲလဲေျပာသည္။ က်ယ္က်ယ္ေျပာသည္။ ေဒါႏွင့္ ေမာႏွင့္ ေျပာသည္။ သေဘာေပါက္သြားေစသည္။ 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 ) ကားေမာင္းဝင္၍ ထိုင္ရာမထ မွာစားႏိုင္ေသာဆိုင္၊ ၾကည့္ႏိုင္ေသာ ႐ုပ္ရွင္ စသည္။ drive-in movies ❍ a drive-thru bank. ❏ drive off [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေမာင္းေျပးသည္။ ေမာင္းထြက္သြား သည္။ The robbers drove off in a stolen vehicle. ၂။ ေဂါက္သီး စတင္႐ိုက္သည္၊ ပြဲစသည္။ ❏ drive sb off [ PHRV ] ကားတင္ေျပးသည္။ ❏ drive sb/sth off [ PHRV ] တိုက္ထုတ္သည္။ ေမာင္းထုတ္ သည္။ drive the enemy off. ❏ drive sb/sth out (of sth) [ PHRV ] ႏွင္ထုတ္သည္။ ေမာင္းထုတ္သည္။ ေပ်ာက္ကြယ္ေစသည္။ The supermarkets are driving small shopkeepers out of business. ❏ drive a wedge between sb and sb [ IDM ] သပ္လွ်ဳိသည္။ ရန္တိုက္ေပးသည္။ ေသြးခြဲသည္။

Examples

1. Usually
2. my sister drives and I read the map.
3. You will drive carefully
4. won’t you?
5. [drive along/down/through etc] : He drove along for several miles before he saw anyone.
6. [drive something along/into etc] : He drove his truck into a wall.
7. Can’t you drive?
8. I’ve been driving for 15 years and I’ve never had an accident.
9. Dad will drive us.
10. [drive someone to/from something] : Lee drove me to the airport.
11. She drives a bus for a living.
12. We usually drive to Italy
13. but this year we’re flying.
14. [drive someone to do something] : Desperation finally drove her to ask for help.
15. [drive someone to something] : People are being driven to violence by police action.
16. [drive someone out of business] : Supermarkets are driving small shops out of business.
17. [drive someone crazy/mad/up the wall/round the bend] : Will you stop that humming
18. you’re driving me mad!
19. [drive someone to desperation/despair] : Driven to desperation
20. he began to steal from his employer.
21. [drive someone to drink] : It’s enough to drive you to drink.
22. [drive someone from/out of/off/away from something] : This malicious gossip has driven her out of the village.
23. [drive someone from/out of something] : Thousands of people have been driven from their homes by the fighting.
24. Swarms of mosquitoes drove us inside the house.
25. The pump is driven by an electric motor.
26. The coach really drives his team
27. but he gets good results.
28. [drive yourself] : We think you’ve been driving yourself too hard.
29. We want to find out what drives a successful businesswoman like Sylvia.
30. Douglas was driven by a need to learn the truth.
31. He drove the nail into the wall.
32. She drove the ball into the top corner of the goal.