DRIVE

Drive

Drive is a 2011 American crime drama film directed by Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Oscar Isaac, and Albert Brooks. It is adapted from the 2005 James Sallis novel of the same name, with a screenplay by Hossein Amini.

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drive

Noun

  1. Self-motivation; ability coupled with ambition.
  2. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
  3. An act of driving animals forward, to be captured, hunted etc.
  4. A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
  5. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use.
  6. A trip made in a motor vehicle.
  7. A driveway.
  8. A type of public roadway.
  9. A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
  10. Desire or interest.
  11. An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
  12. A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data, as a hard drive, a flash drive.
  13. A stroke made with a driver.
  14. A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
  15. 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.
  16. A straight level shot or pass.
  17. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive
  18. An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
  19. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

Verb

  1. To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
    to drive sheep out of a field
  2. To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
  3. To cause animals to flee out of.
  4. To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
  5. To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
  6. To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
  7. To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
  8. To compel (to do something).
  9. To cause to become.
  10. To hit the ball with a drive.
  11. To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
  12. To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
  13. To move forcefully.
  14. To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
  15. To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
  16. To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
  17. To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
  18. To distrain for rent.


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