Difference between Drive and Labor

What is the difference between Drive and Labor?

Drive as a noun is self-motivation; ability coupled with ambition. while Labor as a noun is effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.

Drive

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Self-motivation; ability coupled with ambition. 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. A type of public roadway. Desire or interest. An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive. 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. A stroke made with a driver. A ball struck in a flat trajectory. 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.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To herd (animals) in a particular direction. To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal. To cause animals to flee out of. To move (something) by hitting it with great force. To cause (a mechanism) to operate. To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle). To motivate; to provide an incentive for. To compel (to do something). To cause to become. To hit the ball with a drive. To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle. To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.

Example sentence: Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Labor

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labor movement, organised labor.The act of a mother giving birth.The time period during which a mother gives birth.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: spelling of labour; see British/commonwealth entry for definitions, etymology, pronunciation, translations, etc.

Example sentence: If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.

We hope you now know whether to use Drive or Labor in your sentence.

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