Drive
/dɹaɪv/
noun
- Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
"Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again."
- Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc.
- A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
"Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous."
- A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
"Some old model trains have clockwork drives."
verb
- To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
"You drive nails into wood with a hammer."
- To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
"My wife's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction."
- To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- 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.
- (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
"to drive twenty thousand head of cattle from Texas to the Kansas railheads; to drive sheep out of a field"
Total: 9 Scrabble points
Word Validity & Sources
Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.
About the Word "Drive"
Drive is a 5-letter word that scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words With Friends. The letters in "drive" can be rearranged to form 2 other valid words.
Using "Drive" in Word Games
When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "drive" is a low-scoring word.