{
  "id": "drive.vehicle",
  "term": "drive",
  "sense": "vehicle",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "drive",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to control an object so that it moves through space",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "motion.movement",
      "control.ability",
      "energy.capacity",
      "object.entity",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "Control uses energy to direct an enduring object's movement through space, changing its location over time.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "directed motion",
      "spatial traversal under control",
      "sustained agency over movement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Mars Rover Perseverance drove 2.5 kilometers across Jezero Crater, navigating autonomously over rocky terrain.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2023, a Tesla Model S drove from Los Angeles to San Francisco using Autopilot, adjusting speed and lane position in real time.",
      "domain": "technology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Conestoga wagon train drove 2,000 miles along the Oregon Trail, guided by teamsters through rivers and mountain passes.",
      "domain": "history"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "dissonance.conflict"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "drive",
    "driven",
    "drives",
    "driving",
    "drove"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts object.entity and space.extent to align components with the existing definition, which implicitly relies on them."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-drive.vehicle"
}