The difference between Drive and Impel

When used as verbs, drive means to impel or urge onward by force, whereas impel means to urge a person.

Drive is also noun with the meaning: motivation to do or achieve something.

check bellow for the other definitions of Drive and Impel

Drive as a noun:

Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.

Examples:

"Crassus had [[wealth]] and [[wit]], but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again."
Drive as a noun:

Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
Drive as a noun:

An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
Drive as a noun (military):

A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.

Examples:

"Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as [[determined]] as it was [[disastrous]]."
Drive as a noun:

A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use.

Examples:

"Some old model trains have clockwork drives."
Drive as a noun:

A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).

Examples:

"It was a long drive."
Drive as a noun:

A driveway.

Examples:

"The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive."
Drive as a noun:

A type of public roadway.

Examples:

"Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive."
Drive as a noun (dated):

A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
Drive as a noun (psychology):

Desire or interest.
Drive as a noun (computing):

An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
Drive as a noun (computing):

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.
Drive as a noun (golf):

A stroke made with a driver.
Drive as a noun (baseball, tennis):

A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
Drive as a noun (cricket):

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.
Drive as a noun (soccer):

A straight level shot or pass.
Drive as a noun (American football):

An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
Drive as a noun:

A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.

Examples:

"a whist drive; a beetle drive"
Drive as a noun (typography):

An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
Drive as a noun:

A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

Drive as a verb (transitive):

To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.

Examples:

"to drive sheep out of a field"
Drive as a verb (transitive, intransitive):

To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
Drive as a verb (transitive):

To cause animals to flee out of.

Examples:

"rfex the example is not exactly about an action described by the definition. the example is about driving brambles, not about driving animals. The beaters drove the brambles, causing a great rush of rabbits and other creatures."
Drive as a verb (transitive):

To move (something) by hitting it with great force.

Examples:

"You drive nails into wood with a hammer."
Drive as a verb (transitive):

To cause (a mechanism) to operate.

Examples:

"The pistons drive the crankshaft."
Drive as a verb (transitive, ergative):

To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).

Examples:

"'drive a car"
Drive as a verb (transitive):

To motivate; to provide an incentive for.

Examples:

"What drives a person to run a marathon?"
Drive as a verb (transitive):

To compel (to do something).

Examples:

"Their debts finally drove them to sell the business."
Drive as a verb (transitive):

To cause to become.

Examples:

"This constant complaining is going to drive me to insanity. You are driving me crazy!"
Drive as a verb (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball):

To hit the ball with a drive.
Drive as a verb (intransitive):

To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.

Examples:

"I drive to work every day."
Drive as a verb (transitive):

To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.

Examples:

"My wife drove me to the airport."
Drive as a verb (intransitive):

To move forcefully.
Drive as a verb (intransitive):

To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
Drive as a verb (transitive):

To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
Drive as a verb (transitive):

To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.

Examples:

"rfquotek Francis Bacon"
Drive as a verb (transitive):

To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
Drive as a verb (mining):

To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.

Examples:

"rfquotek Tomlinson"
Drive as a verb (American football):

To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
Drive as a verb (obsolete):

To distrain for rent.
Drive as a verb (transitive):

To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
Drive as a verb:

To be the dominant party in a sex act.

Impel as a verb (transitive):

To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation.

Examples:

"ant propeq1=to compel or drive extrinsically"
Impel as a verb (transitive):

To drive forward; to propel an object.

Examples:

"synonyms: propel"

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