Difference between Repel and Drive

What is the difference between Repel and Drive?

Repel as a verb is to put off while Drive as a verb is to herd (animals) in a particular direction.

Repel

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to put off to force away (usually concerning magnets) to cause repulsion, cause dislike.

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: If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

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

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