drive Significado & definición

Significado de drive en español

• 0 to make a car, bus, or train move, and control what it does -- conducir

  • She’s learning to drive.

• 1 to travel somewhere in a car, or to take someone somewhere in a car -- ir/llevar en coche

  • Annie drove me home last night.

• 2 to make someone extremely annoyed -- sacar a alguien de sus casillas

  • He leaves dirty clothes all over the floor and it’s driving me mad.

• 3 to expect a lot in exchange for what you pay or do -- imponer condiciones duras

• 4 a journey in a car -- viaje en coche

  • The drive from Boston to New York took four hours.

• 5 a part of a computer that can keep information -- unidad de disco

  • Save your work on the C: drive.

• 6 the area of ground that you drive on to get from your house to the road -- camino de acceso

  • You can park on the drive.

• 7 to operate a road vehicle -- conducir

  • Did you fly or drive? ¿Has volado o conducido?

  • We drove down to my mother’s. Condujimos hasta casa de mi madre.

  • He drives a truck for a living. Conduce un camión para ganarse la vida.

• 8 to take sb somewhere in a road vehicle -- llevar

  • I’ll drive you home. Te llevaré a casa.

  • She drove me to school. Ella me llevó a la escuela.

• 9 to give a machine power -- conducir

  • a motor driven by electricity un motor impulsado por electricidad

• 10 to hit or kick sth hard -- golpear

  • She drove the stake into the ground. Ella golpeó la estaca en el suelo.

• 11 to force sb to do sth or behave in a particular way -- empujar a

  • The heat drove people to the air-conditioned stores. El calor llevó a la gente a las tiendas con aire acondicionado.

  • He’s driving us crazy/nuts! ¡Nos está volviendo locos!

• 12 to make sb work hard to achieve sth -- motivar

  • I don’t know what drives him. No sé qué lo motiva.

• 13 a trip taken by car -- viaje [ masculine ]

  • We went for a drive in the mountains. Fuimos a dar una viaje por las montañas.

  • the fifteen-minute drive into town el viaje de quince minutos en coche a la ciudad

• 14 one of the parts of a computer that processes data -- lector [ masculine ]

  • the hard/CD drive el lector de disco duro/CD

• 15 an organized effort to make sth happen -- fuerza [ feminine ]

  • a fundraising drive una campaña de recaudación de fondos

  • a drive to educate people about the drug una campaña para educar a la gente sobre la droga

• 16 determination to succeed -- motivación [ feminine ]

  • She lost her drive as she got older. Ella perdió su motivación al hacerse mayor.

• 17 one of the natural urges that makes people do things -- deseo [ masculine ]

  • the sex drive el deseo sexual

• 18 driveway -- entrada para el coche [ feminine ]

  • a car coming up the drive un coche subiendo por la entrada para coches

• 19 the position of the gear stick that moves an automatic car forward -- conducción [ feminine ]

  • Put it in drive. Ponlo en marcha.