Difference between Driving and Drive

What is the difference between Driving and Drive?

Driving as a verb is to provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto. while Drive as a verb is to herd (animals) in a particular direction.

Driving

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: That drives (a mechanism or process). That drives forcefully; strong; forceful; violent

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The action of the verb to drive in any sense. In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.

Example sentence: The passenger pigeon, the golden toad, the Caspian tiger: they are all gone, and other species hang by a thread. Our actions are not merely driving other species to extinction: we threaten our own survival, too, by destabilising ecosystems and destroying biodiversity.

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: I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

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

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