Drive vs Purpose - What's the difference?
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To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
* Jowett (Thucyd.)
(intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
To cause animals to flee out of.
To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
(ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
To compel (to do something).
To cause to become.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
(cricket) To hit the ball with a .
To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
To move forcefully.
* Dryden
* Prescott
* Tennyson
* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Mark Vesty, work=BBC
, title= To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
* Tennyson
* Sir Philip Sidney
To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
* Collier
To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
* Dryden
(mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
(obsolete) To distrain for rent.
(senseid)Self-motivation; ability coupled with ambition.
Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
* (Matthew Arnold)
An act of driving animals forward, to be captured, hunted etc.
* 1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 79:
(military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use.
A trip made in a motor vehicle.
A driveway.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive , for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.}}
A type of public roadway.
(dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
(psychology) Desire or interest.
(computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
(computing) 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.
(golf) A stroke made with a driver.
(baseball) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
(cricket) 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.
(soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Mark Vesty, work=BBC
, title= A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive
(typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
An object to be reached; a target; an aim; a goal.
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, volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= A result that is desired; an intention.
The act of intending to do something; resolution; determination.
* 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:
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, title= The subject of discourse; the point at issue.
The reason for which something is done, or the reason it is done in a particular way.
(obsolete) Instance; example.
Have set as one's purpose; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan.
* Macaulay
(passive ) Designed for some purpose.
(obsolete) To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.
In transitive terms the difference between drive and purpose
is that drive is to convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle while purpose is (passive) Designed for some purpose.In obsolete terms the difference between drive and purpose
is that drive is to distrain for rent while purpose is instance; example.drive
English
Verb
- to drive sheep out of a field
- A storm came on and drove them into Pylos.
- Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.
- under cover of the night and a driving tempest
- Time driveth onward fast, / And in a little while our lips are dumb.
Wigan 2-2 Arsenal, passage=The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny. }}
- enough to drive one mad
- He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his.
- The trade of life can not be driven without partners.
- (Francis Bacon)
- to drive the country, force the swains away
- (Tomlinson)
Synonyms
* herd * (cause animals to flee out of) * (move something by hitting it with great force) force, push * move, operate * * impel, incentivise/incentivize, motivate, push, urge * (compel) compel, force, oblige, push, require * (cause to become) make, send * (travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle) * takeDerived terms
* bedrive * drink and drive * driveable * drive a coach and horses through * drive a hard bargain * drive at * drive-boat * drive-bolt * drive-by * drivee * drive home * drive-in * drive Irish tandem * drive-line * drive off * drive-off * drive-on * * drive out * drive-pipe * driver * drive-screw * drive-shaft * drive-through, drivethrough * drive time * drive to distraction * drive to drink * drive-train * drive-wheel * drive-yourself * driving * fordrive * let driveNoun
(en noun)- The Murdstonian drive in business.
- Are you all ready?’ he cried, and set off towards the dead ash where the drive would begin.
Wigan 2-2 Arsenal, passage=And after Rodallega missed two early opportunities, the first a header, the second a low drive easily held by Lukasz Fabianski, it was N'Zogbia who created the opening goal. }}
Usage notes
* In connection with a mass-storage device, originally the word "drive" referred solely to the reading and writing mechanism. For the storage device itself, the word "disk" was used instead. This remains a valid distinction for components such as floppy drives or CD drives, in which the drive and the disk are separate and independent items. For other devices, such as hard disks and flash drives, the reading, writing and storage components are combined into an integrated whole, and can not be separated without destroying the device. In these cases, the words "disk" and "drive" are used interchangeably.Synonyms
* (self-motivation) ambition, enthusiasm, get-up-and-go, motivation, self-motivation, verve * (sustained advance in the face of the enemy) attack, push * (motor that does not take fuel) engine, mechanism, motor * (trip made in a motor vehicle) ride, spin, trip * (driveway) approach, driveway * (public roadway) avenue, boulevard, road, street * desire, impetus, impulse, urge * disk drive * (golf term) * (baseball term) line drive * (cricket term)Antonyms
* (self-motivation) inertia, lack of motivation, laziness, phlegm, slothDerived terms
* bridge drive * disk drive * blood drive * food drive * drive-whist * flash drive * floppy drive * four-wheel drive * hard drive * hyperdrive * toy drive * jump drive * left-hand drive * overdrive * right-hand drive * sex drive * warp drive * whist driveDerived terms
* drift * drive out * driver * driverside * driven * driven to distraction * drive Irish tandem * drunk driving * jump drive * piledriver * screwdriver -->purpose
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
- United began with more purpose in the early phase of the second half and Liverpool were grateful for Glen Johnson's crucial block from Young's goalbound shot.
Sarah Glaz
Ode to Prime Numbers, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}
- (Spenser)
- The purpose of turning off the lights overnight is to save energy.
Synonyms
* (target ): aim, goal, object, target * (intention ): aim, plan, intention * (determination ): determination, intention, resolution * (subject of discourse ): matter, subject, topic * (reason for doing something ): reason * See alsoDerived terms
(terms derived from purpose) * all-purpose * common purpose * cross-purpose * fit for purpose * for all intents and purposes * game with a purpose * general-purpose * infinitive of purpose * multi-purpose * metapurpose * purpose-built * purposeful * purposeless * purpose-like * purpose loan * purposely * purpose statement * on purposeEtymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
(purpos)- I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living.
- (Spenser)