Significado de drive em inglês
drivedrive1 /draɪv/ verb (past tense drove /drəʊv $ droʊv/, past participle driven /ˈdrɪvən/) 
Ver todas as traduções1vehicle a)[intransitive, transitive] to make a car, truck, bus etc move alongdirigir um carro, caminhão, ônibus etc.drive to/down/off etc
I am planning to drive to Morocco next year.Estou planejando dirigir até o Marrocos no ano que vem. the man driving the caro homem que está dirigindo o carro Can you drive?Você sabe dirigir? So when did you learn to drive?Então, quando você aprendeu a dirigir? Bye! Drive carefully!Tchau! Dirija com cuidado! He drives 12 miles to work.Ele dirige 12 milhas para ir ao trabalho. He drives (=has) a BMW estate.Ele dirige (ou seja, tem) uma BMW station wagon. b)[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] if a car, truck etc drives somewhere, it moves theredito de um carro, caminhão etc.: mover-se para algum lugar: After the accident, the other car just drove off.Após o acidente, o outro carro simplesmente foi embora. c)[intransitive] if people drive somewhere, they travel somewhere in a cardito de pessoas: viajar a algum lugar de carro: Shall we drive or take the bus?Vamos de carro ou de ônibus?drive to/down/off etc They drove back to Woodside.Eles voltaram de carro para Woodside. d)[transitive always + adverb/preposition] to take someone somewhere in a car, truck etclevar alguém a algum lugar de carro, caminhão etc.: She drove Anna to London.Ela levou Anna a Londres de carro. I’ll drive you home.Eu te levo para casa de carro.drive yourself I drove myself to hospital.Eu mesmo dirigi até o hospital.2make somebody move [transitive] to force a person or animal to go somewhereforçar uma pessoa ou animal a ir a algum lugar: Torrential rain drove the players off the course.A chuva torrencial forçou os jogadores a saírem do campo. With a few loud whistles, they drove the donkeys out of the enclosure.Com alguns apitos altos, eles expulsaram os burros do cercado.3make somebody do something [transitive] to strongly influence someone to do somethinginfluenciar fortemente alguém a fazer algodrive somebody to do something The detective wondered what had driven Christine to phone her.O detetive ficou se perguntando o que havia levado Christine a telefonar para ela.drive somebody to/into something The noises in my head have nearly driven me to suicide.Os ruídos na minha cabeça quase me levaram ao suicídio. Phil, driven by jealousy, started spying on his wife.Phil, movido pelo ciúme, começou a espionar sua esposa.4make somebody/something be in a bad state [transitive] to make someone or something get into a bad or extreme state, usually an emotional onelevar alguém ou algo a um estado ruim ou extremo, geralmente emocionaldrive somebody crazy/nuts/mad/insane (=make someone feel very annoyed)(=deixar alguém muito irritado) This cough is driving me mad!Essa tosse está me deixando louco!drive somebody crazy/wild (=make someone feel very sexually excited)(=deixar alguém extremamente excitado sexualmente)drive somebody up the wall/out of their mind (=make someone feel very annoyed)(=deixar alguém muito irritado)drive somebody to distraction/desperation The mosquitoes drive me to distraction.Os mosquitos me deixam fora de mim.drive somebody/something into something The factory had been driven into bankruptcy.A fábrica havia sido levada à falência.5hit/push something into something [transitive] to hit or push something into something elsebater ou empurrar algo para dentro de outra coisadrive something into something We watched Dad drive the posts into the ground.Vimos papai enfiar os postes no chão. She drove her heels into the sand.Ela afundou os calcanhares na areia.6make somebody work [transitive] to make a person or animal work hardfazer uma pessoa ou animal trabalhar muitodrive yourself Don’t drive yourself too hard.Não se force demais.7sports [intransitive, transitive] a)to move a ball etc forward in a game of baseball, football, golf etc by hitting or kicking it hard and fastavançar a bola no beisebol, futebol, golfe etc., batendo ou chutando com força e rapidez: He drove the ball into the corner of the net.Ele mandou a bola para o canto da rede. b)to run with the ball towards the goal in sports such as basketball and American footballavançar com a bola em direção ao gol ou cesta em esportes como basquete e futebol americano8provide power [transitive] to provide the power for a vehicle or machinefornecer energia para um veículo ou máquinapetrol-driven/electrically-driven/battery-driven etc a petrol-driven lawn mowerum cortador de grama movido a gasolina9rain/wind etc [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] if rain, snow, wind etc drives somewhere, it moves very quickly in that directiondito de chuva, neve, vento etc.: mover-se muito rapidamente em uma direção: The rain was driving down hard.A chuva caía forte.10drive a coach and horses through something to destroy an argument, plan etc completelydestruir completamente um argumento, plano etc.: The new bill will drive a coach and horses through recent trade agreements.O novo projeto de lei vai destruir completamente os recentes acordos comerciais.11make a hole [transitive always + adverb/preposition] to make a large hole in something using heavy equipment or machineryabrir um grande buraco em algo usando equipamento ou maquinário pesado: They drove a tunnel through the mountains.Eles abriram um túnel pelas montanhas.12drive something home to make something completely clear to someonedeixar algo completamente claro para alguém: He didn’t have to drive the point home. The videotape had done that.Ele não precisou reforçar o argumento. A fita de vídeo já havia feito isso.13drive a wedge between somebody to do something that makes people disagree or start to dislike each otherfazer algo que leva pessoas a discordar ou a começar a se desgostarem umas das outras: I don’t want to drive a wedge between you and your father.Não quero criar uma divisão entre você e seu pai. → drive/strike a hard bargain at hard1(18)COLLOCATIONSCOLOCAÇÕES– Meaning 4– Significado 4phraseslocuçõesdrive somebody crazy/mad/insane spokenoral (also drive somebody nuts spokenoral informalinformal) (=make someone feel very annoyed)· The continuous noise was driving me crazy.· O barulho contínuo estava me deixando louco.drive somebody crazy/wild (=make someone feel very sexually excited)· He drives women wild.· Ele deixa as mulheres loucas.drive somebody up the wall/round the bend/out of their mind spokenoral informalinformal (=make someone feel very annoyed)· That voice of hers drives me up the wall.· Aquela voz dela me deixa completamente irritado.drive somebody to distraction (=make someone feel very upset or annoyed)· She was being driven to distraction by her husband’s bad habits.· Os maus hábitos do marido a estavam deixando completamente fora de si.drive somebody to despair/desperation (=make someone despair)· Escalating personal debts have driven many people to despair.· As dívidas pessoais crescentes levaram muitas pessoas ao desespero.drive somebody to drink (=make someone so annoyed or upset that they depend on alcohol)· His problems had almost driven him to drink.· Os problemas dele quase o levaram à bebida.drive at something phrasal verb what somebody is driving at the thing someone is really trying to sayo que alguém está realmente tentando dizer SYN get at: I still couldn’t understand what Toby was driving at.Eu ainda não conseguia entender o que Toby estava querendo dizer.drive somebody ↔ away phrasal verb to behave in a way that makes someone leavecomportar-se de forma a fazer alguém ir embora: He was cruel because he wanted to drive me away.Ele era cruel porque queria me afastar.drive something ↔ down phrasal verb to make prices, costs etc fall quicklyfazer os preços, custos etc. caírem rapidamente: We have to drive down costs.Precisamos reduzir os custos.drive somebody/something ↔ in phrasal verb to hit the ball so that another player can score a run in baseballbater a bola para que outro jogador marque uma corrida no beiseboldrive off phrasal verb1to hit the ball to begin a game of golfbater a bola para iniciar uma partida de golfe2 drive somebody ↔ off to force a person or animal to go away from youforçar uma pessoa ou animal a se afastar: We keep dogs in the yard to drive off intruders.Temos cães no quintal para afastar invasores.drive somebody/something ↔ out phrasal verb1to force someone or something to leaveforçar alguém ou algo a sair: Downtown stores are being driven out by crime.As lojas do centro estão sendo expulsas pela criminalidade.2writtenescrito to make something stop existingfazer algo deixar de existir: As we went forward, our fear was driven out by horror.À medida que avançávamos, nosso medo foi substituído pelo horror.drive something ↔ up phrasal verb to make prices, costs etc rise quicklyfazer os preços, custos etc. subirem rapidamente: The oil shortage drove gas prices up by 20 cents a gallon.A escassez de petróleo fez o preço da gasolina subir 20 centavos por galão.
Ver todas as traduções1vehicle a)[intransitive, transitive] to make a car, truck, bus etc move alongdirigir um carro, caminhão, ônibus etc.drive to/down/off etc I am planning to drive to Morocco next year.Estou planejando dirigir até o Marrocos no ano que vem. the man driving the caro homem que está dirigindo o carro Can you drive?Você sabe dirigir? So when did you learn to drive?Então, quando você aprendeu a dirigir? Bye! Drive carefully!Tchau! Dirija com cuidado! He drives 12 miles to work.Ele dirige 12 milhas para ir ao trabalho. He drives (=has) a BMW estate.Ele dirige (ou seja, tem) uma BMW station wagon. b)[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] if a car, truck etc drives somewhere, it moves theredito de um carro, caminhão etc.: mover-se para algum lugar: After the accident, the other car just drove off.Após o acidente, o outro carro simplesmente foi embora. c)[intransitive] if people drive somewhere, they travel somewhere in a cardito de pessoas: viajar a algum lugar de carro: Shall we drive or take the bus?Vamos de carro ou de ônibus?drive to/down/off etc They drove back to Woodside.Eles voltaram de carro para Woodside. d)[transitive always + adverb/preposition] to take someone somewhere in a car, truck etclevar alguém a algum lugar de carro, caminhão etc.: She drove Anna to London.Ela levou Anna a Londres de carro. I’ll drive you home.Eu te levo para casa de carro.drive yourself I drove myself to hospital.Eu mesmo dirigi até o hospital.2make somebody move [transitive] to force a person or animal to go somewhereforçar uma pessoa ou animal a ir a algum lugar: Torrential rain drove the players off the course.A chuva torrencial forçou os jogadores a saírem do campo. With a few loud whistles, they drove the donkeys out of the enclosure.Com alguns apitos altos, eles expulsaram os burros do cercado.3make somebody do something [transitive] to strongly influence someone to do somethinginfluenciar fortemente alguém a fazer algodrive somebody to do something The detective wondered what had driven Christine to phone her.O detetive ficou se perguntando o que havia levado Christine a telefonar para ela.drive somebody to/into something The noises in my head have nearly driven me to suicide.Os ruídos na minha cabeça quase me levaram ao suicídio. Phil, driven by jealousy, started spying on his wife.Phil, movido pelo ciúme, começou a espionar sua esposa.4make somebody/something be in a bad state [transitive] to make someone or something get into a bad or extreme state, usually an emotional onelevar alguém ou algo a um estado ruim ou extremo, geralmente emocionaldrive somebody crazy/nuts/mad/insane (=make someone feel very annoyed)(=deixar alguém muito irritado) This cough is driving me mad!Essa tosse está me deixando louco!drive somebody crazy/wild (=make someone feel very sexually excited)(=deixar alguém extremamente excitado sexualmente)drive somebody up the wall/out of their mind (=make someone feel very annoyed)(=deixar alguém muito irritado)drive somebody to distraction/desperation The mosquitoes drive me to distraction.Os mosquitos me deixam fora de mim.drive somebody/something into something The factory had been driven into bankruptcy.A fábrica havia sido levada à falência.5hit/push something into something [transitive] to hit or push something into something elsebater ou empurrar algo para dentro de outra coisadrive something into something We watched Dad drive the posts into the ground.Vimos papai enfiar os postes no chão. She drove her heels into the sand.Ela afundou os calcanhares na areia.6make somebody work [transitive] to make a person or animal work hardfazer uma pessoa ou animal trabalhar muitodrive yourself Don’t drive yourself too hard.Não se force demais.7sports [intransitive, transitive] a)to move a ball etc forward in a game of baseball, football, golf etc by hitting or kicking it hard and fastavançar a bola no beisebol, futebol, golfe etc., batendo ou chutando com força e rapidez: He drove the ball into the corner of the net.Ele mandou a bola para o canto da rede. b)to run with the ball towards the goal in sports such as basketball and American footballavançar com a bola em direção ao gol ou cesta em esportes como basquete e futebol americano8provide power [transitive] to provide the power for a vehicle or machinefornecer energia para um veículo ou máquinapetrol-driven/electrically-driven/battery-driven etc a petrol-driven lawn mowerum cortador de grama movido a gasolina9rain/wind etc [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] if rain, snow, wind etc drives somewhere, it moves very quickly in that directiondito de chuva, neve, vento etc.: mover-se muito rapidamente em uma direção: The rain was driving down hard.A chuva caía forte.10drive a coach and horses through something to destroy an argument, plan etc completelydestruir completamente um argumento, plano etc.: The new bill will drive a coach and horses through recent trade agreements.O novo projeto de lei vai destruir completamente os recentes acordos comerciais.11make a hole [transitive always + adverb/preposition] to make a large hole in something using heavy equipment or machineryabrir um grande buraco em algo usando equipamento ou maquinário pesado: They drove a tunnel through the mountains.Eles abriram um túnel pelas montanhas.12drive something home to make something completely clear to someonedeixar algo completamente claro para alguém: He didn’t have to drive the point home. The videotape had done that.Ele não precisou reforçar o argumento. A fita de vídeo já havia feito isso.13drive a wedge between somebody to do something that makes people disagree or start to dislike each otherfazer algo que leva pessoas a discordar ou a começar a se desgostarem umas das outras: I don’t want to drive a wedge between you and your father.Não quero criar uma divisão entre você e seu pai. → drive/strike a hard bargain at hard1(18)COLLOCATIONSCOLOCAÇÕES– Meaning 4– Significado 4phraseslocuçõesdrive somebody crazy/mad/insane spokenoral (also drive somebody nuts spokenoral informalinformal) (=make someone feel very annoyed)· The continuous noise was driving me crazy.· O barulho contínuo estava me deixando louco.drive somebody crazy/wild (=make someone feel very sexually excited)· He drives women wild.· Ele deixa as mulheres loucas.drive somebody up the wall/round the bend/out of their mind spokenoral informalinformal (=make someone feel very annoyed)· That voice of hers drives me up the wall.· Aquela voz dela me deixa completamente irritado.drive somebody to distraction (=make someone feel very upset or annoyed)· She was being driven to distraction by her husband’s bad habits.· Os maus hábitos do marido a estavam deixando completamente fora de si.drive somebody to despair/desperation (=make someone despair)· Escalating personal debts have driven many people to despair.· As dívidas pessoais crescentes levaram muitas pessoas ao desespero.drive somebody to drink (=make someone so annoyed or upset that they depend on alcohol)· His problems had almost driven him to drink.· Os problemas dele quase o levaram à bebida.drive at something phrasal verb what somebody is driving at the thing someone is really trying to sayo que alguém está realmente tentando dizer SYN get at: I still couldn’t understand what Toby was driving at.Eu ainda não conseguia entender o que Toby estava querendo dizer.drive somebody ↔ away phrasal verb to behave in a way that makes someone leavecomportar-se de forma a fazer alguém ir embora: He was cruel because he wanted to drive me away.Ele era cruel porque queria me afastar.drive something ↔ down phrasal verb to make prices, costs etc fall quicklyfazer os preços, custos etc. caírem rapidamente: We have to drive down costs.Precisamos reduzir os custos.drive somebody/something ↔ in phrasal verb to hit the ball so that another player can score a run in baseballbater a bola para que outro jogador marque uma corrida no beiseboldrive off phrasal verb1to hit the ball to begin a game of golfbater a bola para iniciar uma partida de golfe2 drive somebody ↔ off to force a person or animal to go away from youforçar uma pessoa ou animal a se afastar: We keep dogs in the yard to drive off intruders.Temos cães no quintal para afastar invasores.drive somebody/something ↔ out phrasal verb1to force someone or something to leaveforçar alguém ou algo a sair: Downtown stores are being driven out by crime.As lojas do centro estão sendo expulsas pela criminalidade.2writtenescrito to make something stop existingfazer algo deixar de existir: As we went forward, our fear was driven out by horror.À medida que avançávamos, nosso medo foi substituído pelo horror.drive something ↔ up phrasal verb to make prices, costs etc rise quicklyfazer os preços, custos etc. subirem rapidamente: The oil shortage drove gas prices up by 20 cents a gallon.A escassez de petróleo fez o preço da gasolina subir 20 centavos por galão.drivedrive2 noun 1in a car [countable] a journey in a caruma viagem de carro; um passeio de carrodrive to/along etc Let’s go for a drive along the coast.Vamos dar um passeio de carro pela costa. Taylor took me for a drive through the town.Taylor me levou para um passeio de carro pela cidade.an hour’s/a two-hour etc drive It’s a two-hour drive from Calais to Thiepval.São duas horas de carro de Calais até Thiepval.► see thesaurus at journey2natural need [countable] a strong natural need or desireuma necessidade ou desejo natural e forte: The treatment will not affect your sex drive.O tratamento não vai afetar seu desejo sexual.3outside your house [countable] the hard area or road between your house and the streeta área pavimentada entre a casa e a rua; entrada (de garagem) SYN drivewayin/on the drive He parked his car in the drive.Ele estacionou o carro na entrada da garagem.4effort [countable] an effort to achieve something, especially an effort by an organization for a particular purposeum esforço para alcançar algo, especialmente o esforço de uma organização para um objetivo específico: a recruitment drive for new membersuma campanha de recrutamento de novos membros an economy drive (=effort to reduce spending)uma campanha de economia (=esforço para reduzir gastos)drive to do something a nationwide drive to crack down on crimeuma campanha nacional para combater o crime5determination [uncountable] determination and energy to succeeddeterminação e energia para ter sucesso: Brian has got tremendous drive.Brian tem uma determinação enorme.6power [uncountable] the power from an engine that makes the wheels of a vehicle go rounda força do motor que faz as rodas de um veículo girarfront-wheel/rear-wheel/four-wheel drive7computer [countable] a piece of equipment in a computer that is used to get information from a disk or to store information on itcomponente do computador usado para ler informações de um disco ou armazená-las nelehard/floppy/A etc drive → disk drive8sport [countable] an act of hitting a ball hard, especially in tennis, baseball, or golfo ato de bater na bola com força, especialmente no tênis, beisebol ou golfe: He hit a long, high drive to right field.Ele acertou uma tacada longa e alta para o campo direito.9military attack [countable] several military attacksvários ataques militaresdrive into a drive deep into enemy territoryum avanço profundo em território inimigo10animals [countable] when animals such as cows or sheep are brought together and made to move in a particular directionação de reunir animais como vacas ou ovelhas e fazê-los se mover em uma determinada direção11Drive used in the names of roadsusado em nomes de ruas: 141 Park Drive141 Park Drive
1in a car [countable] a journey in a caruma viagem de carro; um passeio de carrodrive to/along etc Let’s go for a drive along the coast.Vamos dar um passeio de carro pela costa. Taylor took me for a drive through the town.Taylor me levou para um passeio de carro pela cidade.an hour’s/a two-hour etc drive It’s a two-hour drive from Calais to Thiepval.São duas horas de carro de Calais até Thiepval.► see thesaurus at journey2natural need [countable] a strong natural need or desireuma necessidade ou desejo natural e forte: The treatment will not affect your sex drive.O tratamento não vai afetar seu desejo sexual.3outside your house [countable] the hard area or road between your house and the streeta área pavimentada entre a casa e a rua; entrada (de garagem) SYN drivewayin/on the drive He parked his car in the drive.Ele estacionou o carro na entrada da garagem.4effort [countable] an effort to achieve something, especially an effort by an organization for a particular purposeum esforço para alcançar algo, especialmente o esforço de uma organização para um objetivo específico: a recruitment drive for new membersuma campanha de recrutamento de novos membros an economy drive (=effort to reduce spending)uma campanha de economia (=esforço para reduzir gastos)drive to do something a nationwide drive to crack down on crimeuma campanha nacional para combater o crime5determination [uncountable] determination and energy to succeeddeterminação e energia para ter sucesso: Brian has got tremendous drive.Brian tem uma determinação enorme.6power [uncountable] the power from an engine that makes the wheels of a vehicle go rounda força do motor que faz as rodas de um veículo girarfront-wheel/rear-wheel/four-wheel drive7computer [countable] a piece of equipment in a computer that is used to get information from a disk or to store information on itcomponente do computador usado para ler informações de um disco ou armazená-las nelehard/floppy/A etc drive → disk drive8sport [countable] an act of hitting a ball hard, especially in tennis, baseball, or golfo ato de bater na bola com força, especialmente no tênis, beisebol ou golfe: He hit a long, high drive to right field.Ele acertou uma tacada longa e alta para o campo direito.9military attack [countable] several military attacksvários ataques militaresdrive into a drive deep into enemy territoryum avanço profundo em território inimigo10animals [countable] when animals such as cows or sheep are brought together and made to move in a particular directionação de reunir animais como vacas ou ovelhas e fazê-los se mover em uma determinada direção11Drive used in the names of roadsusado em nomes de ruas: 141 Park Drive141 Park Drive