Drive and Necessity

Drive

Drive noun - A strong wish for something.

Usage example: a drive to succeed in the television news business

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

Nearby Words: driving, driven, driver, driveway

Necessity noun - Something necessary, indispensable, or unavoidable.

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Drive and necessity are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Drive" instead a noun "Necessity".

emotional	emotional drive	emotional necessity
human	human drive	human necessity
similar	similar drive	similar necessity
powerful	powerful drive	powerful necessity
Other adjectives: actual, constant, new, desperate, last.

HDLoader is practically a necessity (or would be if certain parts didn't flat-out crash when played from a hard drive).

Source: Loads and Loads of Loading
Overnight, many gamers changed their view on the necessity of owning a sound card and CD-ROM drive and bought them en-masse just to play the game.

Source: Useful Notes / IBM Personal Computer
Drive: It's not clear how the Ring Drive works (all we know is that it's really cold in there), but since it's apparently ring-shaped by necessity, there's likely spinning involved.

Source: When Things Spin, Science Happens

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