The word drive has several related meanings:

Drive means to operate and control a vehicle. When you drive a car, you steer it, control its speed, and navigate where it goes. Your parents drive you to school, farmers drive tractors, and bus drivers drive buses. People who drive well pay attention, follow traffic rules, and keep their passengers safe.

The word also describes a strong motivation or ambition to achieve something. A student with drive pushes herself to improve, practices even when it's hard, and doesn't give up when things get difficult. Athletes with drive train harder, scientists with drive keep experimenting after failures, and entrepreneurs with drive work long hours to build their businesses. This kind of drive is an inner force that keeps you moving toward your goals.

Drive can also mean to force or push something forward. A strong wind can drive rain against the windows. A shepherd might drive sheep across a field. Workers drive nails into wood with hammers.

As a noun, a drive is a journey in a vehicle (“Let's go for a drive”), a street name (“They live on Maple Drive”), or a campaign to collect something (“The school held a food drive”). In computers, a drive is a device that stores information.