Drive and Engine

Drive

Drive noun - A passage cleared for public vehicular travel.

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Engine and drive are semantically related In some cases you can use "Engine" instead a noun "Drive".

Nearby Words: driving, driven, driver, driveway

Engine noun - A device that changes energy into mechanical motion.

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Drive and engine are semantically related in motor topic. Sometimes you can use "Drive" instead a noun "Engine".

Nearby Words: engineer, enginery

similar	similar drive	similar engine
complete	complete drive	complete engine
standard	standard drive	standard engine
single	single drive	single engine
Other adjectives: strong, powerful, actual, entire, big, main, capable, internal, new, experimental, advanced, rear, broken, working, last, different, efficient, said, unstoppable.

The Doctor Who story "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" has an utterly preposterous motivation for the Dalek invasion - they want to use human slaves to mine out the Earth's molten core, replace it with an engine and drive the planet around space.

Source: Just Here for Godzilla
The malfunctioning transwarp drive of USS Excelsior sounds like nothing you might hear on a spaceship but instead a misfiring internal combustion engine."Jim... Your name is Jim."

Source: Film / Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Such a device is just an engine with a scrap-metal blade crudely attached to the drive shaft.

Source: Helicopter Blender

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