Kill vs Drive - What's the difference?
kill | drive |
To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
(fiction) To invent a story that conveys the death of (a character).
To render inoperative.
:: Peter : Ask Childers if it was worth his arm.
:: Policeman : What did you do to his arm, Peter?
:: Peter''': I '''killed it, with a machine gun.
(figuratively) To stop, cease or render void; to terminate.
(transitive, figuratively, hyperbole) To amaze, exceed, stun or otherwise incapacitate.
(figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
To use up or to waste.
(transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
(transitive, figuratively, hyperbole) To overpower, overwhelm or defeat.
To force a company out of business.
(informal) To produce intense pain.
(figuratively, informal, hyperbole) To punish severely.
(sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=February 4
, author=Gareth Roberts
, title=Wales 19-26 England
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(mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
(computing, Internet, IRC) To disconnect (a user) forcibly from the network.
The act of killing.
Specifically, the death blow.
The result of killing; that which has been killed.
(volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
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A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
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
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, 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.
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, 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.
In transitive terms the difference between kill and drive
is that kill is to force a company out of business while drive is to convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.kill
English
(wikipedia kill)Etymology 1
From (etyl) killen, kyllen, , (etyl) kellen.Verb
(en verb)- Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined.
- There is conclusive evidence that smoking kills .
- Shakespeare killed Romeo and Juliet for drama.
- He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
- (1978):
- The editor decided to kill the story.
- The news that a hurricane had destroyed our beach house killed our plans to sell it.
- My computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes.
- That night, she was dressed to kill .
- That joke always kills me.
- It kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad.
- It kills me to learn how many poor people are practically starving in this country while rich moguls spend such outrageous amounts on useless luxuries.
- I'm just doing this to kill time.
- He told the bartender, pointing at the bottle of scotch he planned to consume, "Leave it, I'm going to kill the bottle."
- Between the two of us, we killed the rest of the case of beer.
- Look at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate anymore.
- The team had absolutely killed their traditional rivals, and the local sports bars were raucous with celebrations.
- You don't ever want to get rabies. The doctor will have to give you multiple shots and they really kill .
- My parents are going to kill me!
citation, page= , passage=That close call encouraged Wales to launch another series of attacks that ended when lock Louis Deacon killed the ball illegally in the shadow of England's posts.}}
Synonyms
* (to put to death) assassinate, bump off, ice, knock off, liquidate, murder, rub out, slaughter, slay, top, whack * (to use up or waste) fritter away, while away * (to render inoperative) break, deactivate, disable, turn off * (to exert an overwhelming effect on) annihilate (informal) * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- The assassin liked to make a clean kill , and thus favored small arms over explosives.
- The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
- The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
- As a senior in 1993, Turner had a kill' percentage of 40.8, which was a school record at the time and the best in the SAC. Turner concluded her volleyball career with 1,349 ' kills , ranking fifth all-time at Catawba.
Derived terms
* in for the kill * thrill killEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- The channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill''' van Kull, or the '''Kills .
- Schuylkill''', Cats'''kill , etc.
Etymology 3
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. }}
