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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| drive (draɪv) | |
| —vb , drives, driving, drove, driven | |
| 1. | to push, propel, or be pushed or propelled |
| 2. | to control and guide the movement of (a vehicle, draught animal, etc): to drive a car |
| 3. | (tr) to compel or urge to work or act, esp excessively |
| 4. | (tr) to goad or force into a specified attitude or state: work drove him to despair |
| 5. | (tr) to cause (an object) to make or form (a hole, crack, etc): his blow drove a hole in the wall |
| 6. | to move or cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force |
| 7. | sport to hit (a ball) very hard and straight, as (in cricket) with the bat swinging more or less vertically |
| 8. | golf to strike (the ball) with a driver, as in teeing off |
| 9. | (tr) |
| a. to chase (game) from cover into more open ground | |
| b. to search (an area) for game | |
| 10. | to transport or be transported in a driven vehicle |
| 11. | (intr) to rush or dash violently, esp against an obstacle or solid object: the waves drove against the rock |
| 12. | (tr) to carry through or transact with vigour (esp in the phrase drive a hard bargain) |
| 13. | (tr) to force (a component) into or out of its location by means of blows or a press |
| 14. | (tr) mining to excavate horizontally |
| 15. | (NZ) (tr) to fell (a tree or trees) by the impact of another felled tree |
| 16. | drive home |
| a. to cause to penetrate to the fullest extent | |
| b. to make clear by special emphasis | |
| —n | |
| 17. | the act of driving |
| 18. | a trip or journey in a driven vehicle |
| 19. | a. a road for vehicles, esp a private road leading to a house |
| b. (capital when part of a street name): Woodland Drive | |
| 20. | vigorous or urgent pressure, as in business |
| 21. | a united effort, esp directed towards a common goal: a charity drive |
| 22. | (Brit) beetle drive See whist drive a large gathering of persons to play cards, etc |
| 23. | energy, ambition, or initiative |
| 24. | psychol a motive or interest, such as sex, hunger, or ambition, that actuates an organism to attain a goal |
| 25. | a sustained and powerful military offensive |
| 26. | a. the means by which force, torque, motion, or power is transmitted in a mechanism: fluid drive |
| b. (as modifier): a drive shaft | |
| 27. | sport a hard straight shot or stroke |
| 28. | a search for and chasing of game towards waiting guns |
| 29. | electronics the signal applied to the input of an amplifier |
| [Old English drīfan; related to Old Frisian drīva, Old Norse drīfa, Gothic dreiban, Old High German trīban] | |
| 'drivable | |
| —adj | |
| 'driveable | |
| —adj | |
| driva'bility | |
| —n | |
| drivea'bility | |
| —n | |