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drive
Verb
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If you drive a car or other vehicle, you control its movements.
I've been learning how to drive a bus.
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If you drive somewhere, you go there by car.
The bus is too slow. Let's drive to school instead.
Mom, can you drive me to Cindy's house?
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If you drive someone or something, you make them move.
The dogs drove the cows into the field.
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If you drive someone to mathX/math, you make them do or feel mathX/math.
The death of her son drove her to drink.
drive
Noun
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A drive is a trip by car.
Let's go for a drive down to the lake.
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Drive is the feeling that you want or need to do something.
She has a strong drive to succeed.
If you're tired, it often affects your sex drive.
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A (disk) drive is part of a computer that reads and writes information to a disk.
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A drive is the short road outside a house to put a car on.
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A drive is a short strong effort to do something.
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Drive is the power that makes a vehicle move.
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In sports, a drive a ball that has been hit hard.
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A drive is when people direct a group of animals to move in a particular direction.
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A drive is kind of road.
a
Determinative
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A is used when the following word could be any of a certain type.
Compare "A book I saw on the shelf" and "The book I gave you yesterday".
a
Noun
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A is the first letter of the alphabet.
The letter "a" comes before "b".
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In some schools, an A is a very high grade.
Ron got an A on his earth science test.
disk
Noun
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A disk is an object that is thin, flat, and circular.
A coin is a disk of metal.
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Something that looks like a disk.
Venus' disk blocked light from the Sun.
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A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record.
Turn the disk over after it has finished.
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A floppy disk.
He still uses floppy disks from 1979.
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A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD.
She burned some disks yesterday to back up the information on her computer.