(UK, London, dated) A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
(slang, obsolete) pickpocket
(sports) A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.
Someone who dives, especially as a sport.
Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
The New Zealand sand diver.
The long-finned sand diver.
dover
drave
drave
verb
(archaic) simple past tense of drive
drive
drive
noun
(American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
(baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
(computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
(computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
(cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
(dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
(golf) A stroke made with a driver.
(military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
(psychology) Desire or interest.
(retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
(soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
(typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
A driveway.
A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
A type of public roadway.
An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
An act of driving (prompting) livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
verb
(American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
(intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
(intransitive) To move forcefully.
(intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
(intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
(mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
(obsolete) To distrain for rent.
(transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
(transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
(transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
(transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
(transitive) To cause to become.
(transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
(transitive) To compel (to do something).
(transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
(transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
(transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
(transitive) To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
(transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
(transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
(transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
(transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
(transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
(transitive, slang, aviation) To operate (an aircraft).
To be the dominant party in a sex act.
To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.
To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
drove
drove
noun
(collective) A group of hares.
(figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven; a drove road.
The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
verb
(transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
simple past tense of drive
raved
raved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of rave
rived
rived
verb
simple past tense and past participle of rive
roved
roved
verb
past participle of rove
vader
vedro
vedro
noun
A Russian liquid measure, approximately 2.7 imperial gallons.
verda
verde
verdi
voder
voder
Noun
An early electronic device for synthesizing speech by imitating the effects of the human vocal tract.