Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“drave” is a form of

drive

/dɹaɪv/ verb, noun

Forms drives driving drove drave driv driven druv drivest drovest dravest driveth Dr.

  1. verb (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle). “The bridges weren't strong enough to drive (campers) over.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle. “I drive to work every day.”
  3. verb (transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle. “My cousin drove me to the airport.”
  4. verb (transitive, slang, aviation) To operate (an aircraft); to pilot. “drive a 737”
  5. verb (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
  6. verb (transitive) (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”
  7. verb (transitive) (especially animals) To cause to flee out of. “The hunting dog drove the birds out of the tall grass.”
  8. verb (transitive) 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 any hammer; it's not as strenuous as driving a tunnel through the rock.”
  9. noun Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation. “Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.”
  10. noun Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; (especially) a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
  11. noun An act of driving game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
  12. noun An act of driving livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
  13. noun (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take an objective. “Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.”
  14. noun A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part. “steam drive, nuclear drive, chain drive, rear-wheel drive, all-wheel drive, front-wheel drive”
  15. noun The location of the steering wheel used to control a vehicle. “left-hand drive, right-hand drive”
  16. noun (automotive) The gear into which one usually shifts an automatic transmission when one is driving a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol D on a shifter's labeling.) “Normally you should be in drive, although you can select a lower gear such as 2 or 1 for certain conditions, such as prolonged downhill stretches.”

Synonyms

ride motorvate take fly pilot drove goad herd flush flush out scare up force push move operate impel incentivise incentivize urge abet thrust driving force campaign cause crusade movement effort driveway private road driving

Antonyms

inertia lack of motivation laziness phlegm sloth

Etymology

From Middle English driven, from Old English drīfan (“to drive, force, move”), from Proto-West Germanic *drīban, from Proto-Germanic *drībaną (“to drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”).
Cognate with Scots drive (“to drive”), Yola dhreeve, dhrive, dreeve, drieve, drive (“to drive”), North Frisian driiv, driiw, driwe (“to drive”), West Frisian driuwe (“to drive; to float”), Alemannic German triibe (“to drive”), Dutch drijven (“to drive, push”), German treiben (“to drive, push, propel”), Low German drieven (“to drive, drift, push”), Luxembourgish dreiwen (“to drive, propel”), Yiddish טרײַבן (traybn, “to drive”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål drive (“to drive, propel”), Icelandic drífa (“to drive”), Norwegian Nynorsk driva, drive (“to drive, move; to propel; to run”), Swedish driva (“to drive, compel; to drift; to run”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (dreiban, “to drive”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.
  2. verb To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door.
  3. verb To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.
  4. verb To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.

Etymology [AS. drifan; akin to OS. driban, D. drijven, OHG. triban, G. treiben, Icel. drifa, Goth. dreiban. Cf. Drift, Drove.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “drive”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “drive” (best matches first).

All 115 Sanskrit matches →