The difference between Drive and Spin

When used as nouns, drive means motivation to do or achieve something, whereas spin means rapid circular motion.

When used as verbs, drive means to impel or urge onward by force, whereas spin means to rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly).

check bellow for the other definitions of Drive and Spin

  1. 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."

  2. Drive as a noun:

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

  3. Drive as a noun:

    An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.

  4. 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]]."

  5. 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."

  6. Drive as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "It was a long drive."

  7. Drive as a noun:

    A driveway.

    Examples:

    "The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive."

  8. Drive as a noun:

    A type of public roadway.

    Examples:

    "Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive."

  9. Drive as a noun (dated):

    A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.

  10. Drive as a noun (psychology):

    Desire or interest.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. Drive as a noun (golf):

    A stroke made with a driver.

  14. Drive as a noun (baseball, tennis):

    A ball struck in a flat trajectory.

  15. 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.

  16. Drive as a noun (soccer):

    A straight level shot or pass.

  17. 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.

  18. Drive as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "a whist drive; a beetle drive"

  19. Drive as a noun (typography):

    An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.

  20. Drive as a noun:

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

  1. 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"

  2. Drive as a verb (transitive, intransitive):

    To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.

  3. 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."

  4. Drive as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "You drive nails into wood with a hammer."

  5. Drive as a verb (transitive):

    To cause (a mechanism) to operate.

    Examples:

    "The pistons drive the crankshaft."

  6. Drive as a verb (transitive, ergative):

    To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).

    Examples:

    "'drive a car"

  7. Drive as a verb (transitive):

    To motivate; to provide an incentive for.

    Examples:

    "What drives a person to run a marathon?"

  8. Drive as a verb (transitive):

    To compel (to do something).

    Examples:

    "Their debts finally drove them to sell the business."

  9. 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!"

  10. Drive as a verb (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball):

    To hit the ball with a drive.

  11. Drive as a verb (intransitive):

    To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.

    Examples:

    "I drive to work every day."

  12. Drive as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "My wife drove me to the airport."

  13. Drive as a verb (intransitive):

    To move forcefully.

  14. Drive as a verb (intransitive):

    To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).

  15. Drive as a verb (transitive):

    To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.

  16. Drive as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Francis Bacon"

  17. Drive as a verb (transitive):

    To clear, by forcing away what is contained.

  18. Drive as a verb (mining):

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

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Tomlinson"

  19. Drive as a verb (American football):

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

  20. Drive as a verb (obsolete):

    To distrain for rent.

  21. Drive as a verb (transitive):

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

  22. Drive as a verb:

    To be the dominant party in a sex act.

  1. Spin as a verb (ergative):

    To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.

    Examples:

    "I spun myself around a few times."

    "Spin the ball on the floor."

    "She spun around and gave him a big smile."

  2. Spin as a verb (transitive):

    To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.

    Examples:

    "They spin the cotton into thread."

  3. Spin as a verb:

    To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.

  4. Spin as a verb (cricket, of a bowler):

    To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.

  5. Spin as a verb (cricket, of a ball):

    To move sideways when bouncing.

  6. Spin as a verb (cooking):

    To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar

  7. Spin as a verb:

    To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.

  8. Spin as a verb:

    To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.

  9. Spin as a verb:

    To move swiftly.

    Examples:

    "to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc."

  10. Spin as a verb:

    To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.

    Examples:

    "Blood spins from a vein."

  11. Spin as a verb (computing, programming, intransitive):

    To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.

  12. Spin as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.

  1. Spin as a noun:

    Rapid circular motion.

    Examples:

    "The car went into a spin''."

    "The skaters demonstrated their spins''."

    "He put some spin on the cue ball."

  2. Spin as a noun (physics):

    A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.

  3. Spin as a noun (countable, uncountable):

    A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.

    Examples:

    "Try to put a positive spin on the disappointing sales figures."

    "The politician was mocked in the press for his reliance on spin rather than facts."

    "synonyms: propaganda"

  4. Spin as a noun (sports):

    Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.

  5. Spin as a noun:

    A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing and rolling in a spinning motion.

  6. Spin as a noun:

    A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.

    Examples:

    "I'm off out for a spin in my new sports car."

  7. Spin as a noun:

    A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.

  8. Spin as a noun:

    A single play of a record by a radio station.

  9. Spin as a noun (dated):

    Unmarried woman, spinster.

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