Drive In

Definition: Drive In

Drive In

Verb

1. Cause a run or runner to be scored, in baseball: "His line double drove in Jim Lemon with the winning run".

2. Arrive by motorcar; "The star and her manager drive in today from their motor tour across the country".

3. Cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion "drive in screws or bolts".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Drive In

Insertion

Obtrude; thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in, drive in, pop in, whip in, drop in, put in; impact; empierce; (make a hole).

Crosswords: Drive In

The bill basically said that his daughters could not drive in a Convertible on public highways. (Good Morning, Vietnam; writing credit: Mitch Markowitz)

I love a drive in the country. (For Your Eyes Only; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

Dead-End Drive In (1986)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Tales from the Freudian Crypt: The Death Drive in Text and Context (reference)

• The Golfer's Two-Minute Workout: Add 30 Yards to Your Drive in Six Weeks (reference)

• Drive in Madness: The Jiggle Movies (reference)

• Drive in Memories: Popcorn and Romance Under the Stars (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The great drive in Wall Street. Credit: Library of Congress.

Drive in Lincoln Park, Grand Rapids, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress.

Drive in Forest Park, Springfield, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress.

War production drive. A feature of the war production drive in the Westinghouse Lamp Division plant was a portable booth which moved from department to department while a pretty girl, chosen partly because of her ability to wear a uniform well, sold war b. Credit: Library of Congress.

Natives aid Allied drive in New Guinea jungles. Without the aid of the New Guinea natives, many a wounded Allied soldier might have died in the trackless jungles. Native carriers "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels" are shown bringing wounded troops into an advanced Amer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Field along the Skyline Drive in Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

View in the mountains along Skyline Drive in Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mountains along the Skyline Drive in Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cornshocks in mountain farm along the Skyline Drive in Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Field of a mountain farm along the Skyline Drive in Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

Distances which people would normally drive in a short amount of time could take many times longer due to geographical obstacles. (references)

Economic History

Argentina

Industry experts indicate that technological innovations brought in by the recent drive in imported construction materials is simultaneously driving down costs and increasing quality. (references)

Lithuania

The second round of privatization, in which an estimated $725 million of State property will be sold for cash, will presumably be one of the major attractions for foreign investment in 2000. The Lithuanian Government began its privatization drive in early 1997 with the State telephone monopoly. (references)

Travel

Kuwait

Car rental is also readily available to U.S. visitors with a valid U.S. driver's license (which permits one to drive in Kuwait for the duration of the visitor's visa). (references)

Worker Rights

Guatemala

On July 18 and 19, antiunion workers attacked union organizers involved in a legally registered union organizing drive in the Choi Shin/Cimatextiles maquila plants. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "drive in": drive in a nail ♦ drive in a pile ♦ drive in a stake ♦ drive in cinema ♦ drive in front. Additional references.

Albanian

vend publik ku hyhet me makinë, ngul (bite into, dig, drive, fix, jab, nail, pin down, plant, plunge, post, press in, put, sink, spit, stick, thrust, wrap up), fut (accept, cram into, drive, embed, engrain, enter, establish, foot, hide, insert, intercalate, interpolate, introduce, launch, let in, mix in, move in, number, plunge, poke, pour into, put, put in the picture, put smb. wise to smth., set, speak, stick into, stock up, stuff, submerge, take on, thrust, tuck, usher in). (various references)

Arabic 

‏رجعه بالسيارة, ‏دخل فكرة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

вкарвам (draw in, drive, fit in, get in, introduce, let in, put in, set, stick, thrust, wheel in), забивам (embed, fix, grind into, hammer, jab, knock home, nail, plant, plunge, ram, sink, smash, stick, thrust, thrust in). (various references)

Czech

podnik ve vlastním parkovišti. (various references)

French

enfoncer. (various references)

German

hineinfahren (go into, move in, pull in), eintreiben (collect, exact, exaction, get in, recover), einschlagen (adopt, bang in, bash down, bash in, beat in, catch on, cover, drive home, drive into, enter on, envelop, fell, follow, hammer down, hammer in, hit, hit out, knock in, knock out, pursue, sink in, smash down, smash in, stave in, strike, take, take up, to stave in, turn, turn up, wrap up). (various references)

Greek 

μπήγω (drive into, embed, fix, push in, thrust). (various references)

Hebrew 

ברכבך. (various references)

Hungarian

bever (bash, bump, hammer in, stave, to bash, to bump, to bung, to burr, to hammer in, to hammer into, to knock in, to knock into, to prick, to stave, to stave in), becsavar (curl, frizz up, furl, screw in, to furl, to involve, to roll, to roll up, to screw on), autósvendéglõ, autósmozi. (various references)

Indonesian

drive (drive in golf). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ドミノ理論 (car rental agency, de Morgan, domain, domestic, domestic science, domino theory, draft, draft beer, drag, drag bunt, drag race, dragging, dragon, drama, dramatic, dramatist, drastic, dried sausage, drive, drive serve, drive-in bank, drive-in restaurant, drive-in theater, driver, drive-through, driveway, driving, driving club, driving contest, drugstore, drum, drum machine, drum solo, drummer, drumming, drum-set, dry, dry cleaning, dry curry, dry cut, dry flower, dry gin, dry ice, dry martini, dry milk, dry paint, dry shampoo, dry shaving, dry skin, dry suit, dryer, drypoint, longest drive contest, road map, screwdriver, trip by car). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ドライブイン . (various references)

Manx

imman stiagh (knock in). (various references)

Pig Latin

ivedray inay

Romanian

restaurant (bar, eating house, restaurant), cinematograf în aer liber. (various references)

Russian 

вколотить (hammer in), воткнуть (thrust in), вогнать, забить (hammer in). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zabiti (hammer, pitch, pound in, sink), ukucati (drive, hammer, hammer in, type in), uglaviti (arrange, fix, house, plant, set), udariti (bang, bash, bat, beat, belt, bump, clock, clout, conk, hack, hit, jog, knock, paw, percuss, poke, punch, ram, rap, shock, strike, stub, swipe, wallop, whack), ući (come in, enter, get in, get into, go into), u koji se može ući kolima, restoran u koji se ulazi kolima, bioskop (cinema, movie house, movies, picture palace, picture theatre). (various references)

Spanish

autocine (drive in cinema). (various references)

Swedish

drive-in-. (various references)

Turkish

içeri sokmak (introduce, let in, put in, tuck in), içeri girmek (come in, enter, get in, pass into, step in, walk in), arabaya servis yapan restoran, arabaya servis yapılan, arabalı sinema, araba ile girilebilen, çakmak (be aware of, be ploughed, be plowed, beetle, cotton on to, drive, flash, flunk, gaslighter, ground, hammer, land, lighter, pitch, ram, root, rumble, spin, stick, strike, tack, tack down, twig, understand). (various references)

Turkmen 

kakmak (hammer in). (various references)

Ukrainian

ресторан для автомобілістів, кіно для автомобілістів на відкритому повітр, заганяти (knock into, whip in). (various references)

pacti, pacto, pactum, pactus, pango, pepigeram, pepigerant, pepigerat, pepigi, pepigique, pepigisti, pepigit, pepigitque. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: diviner.

-1 letter: divine, driven, verdin, vinier.

-2 letters: diner, diver, drive, indie, indri, ivied, rived, riven, vined, virid.

-3 letters: deni, dine, dire, dive, ired, irid, nerd, nevi, nide, nidi, rein, rend, ride, rind, rive, vein, vend, vide, vied, vier, vine.

-4 letters: den, dev, die, din, end, ern, ire, red, rei, rev, rid, rin, vie.

-5 letters: de, ed, en.

+1 letter: deriving, diviners.

+2 letters: depriving, diverging, diversion, diverting, driveline, driveling, misdriven, redriving, reinvited.

+3 letters: biliverdin, coderiving, delivering, derivation, disserving, diversions, drivelines, drivelling, drivetrain, indurative, overriding, redividing, redivision, reinvading, unverified, viewfinder, vivandiere.

+4 letters: advertising, advertizing, bedriveling, biliverdins, denigrative, deprivation, derivations, desilvering, discovering, dissevering, drivetrains, evidentiary, improvident, interviewed, inventoried, invigorated, overbidding, overdriving, overediting, overgilding, overgirding, overwinding, previsioned, provisioned, redivisions, veratridine, viewfinders, vineyardist, viridescent, vivandieres.