DRIVE

(PROVIDE POWER) [verb] [T] [past simple] drove, [past participle] driven - to provide the power to keep a (machine) moving or to make something happenThe engine drives the wheels.If you drive a movable object, for example a ball, you hit it hard so that it travels a long way.Dowell drove the ball across the pitch with typical accuracy.Slater drove the ball down the fairway.The drive shaft in a vehicle is a rod that spins round and takes the power from the engine to the wheels.