 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
driving
adjective
1: having the power of driving or impelling; "a driving
personal ambition"; "the driving force was his innate
enthusiasm"; "an impulsive force" [syn: {impulsive}]
2: acting with vigor; "responsibility turned the spoiled
playboy into a driving young executive"
noun
1: hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver; "he sliced
his drive out of bounds" [syn: {drive}]
2: the act of controlling and steering the movement of a
vehicle or animal
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), verb (used with an object) [imp. {Drove} (dr[=o]v),
formerly {Drave} (dr[=a]v); p. p. {Driven} (dr[i^]v'n); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Driving}.] [AS. dr[=i]fan; akin to OS.
dr[=i]ban, D. drijven, OHG. tr[=i]ban, G. treiben, Icel.
dr[=i]fa, Goth. dreiban. Cf. {Drift}, {Drove}.]
1. To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from
one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to
move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to
drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.
A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. --Jowett
(Thucyd. ).
Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along.
--Pope.
Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. --Pope.
2. To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which
draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also,
to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by
beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive
a person to his own door.
How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother!
--Thackeray.
3. To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain;
to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive
a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of
circumstances, by argument, and the like. '' Enough to
drive one mad.'' --Tennyson.
He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do
the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had
done for his. --Sir P.
Sidney.
4. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
[Now used only colloquially.] --Bacon.
The trade of life can not be driven without
partners. --Collier.
5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
To drive the country, force the swains away.
--Dryden.
6. (Mining) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery
or tunnel. --Tomlinson.
7. To pass away; -- said of time. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
8. Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, etc., to
propel (the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible
throw.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
9. to operate (a vehicle) while it is on motion, by
manipulating the controls, such as the steering,
propulsion, and braking mechanisms.
[PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Driving \Driv"ing\, noun
1. The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of
pressing or moving on furiously.
2. Tendency; drift. [R.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Driving \Driv"ing\, adjective
1. Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or
storm.
2. Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft.
{Driving axle}, the axle of a driving wheel, as in a
locomotive.
{Driving box} (Locomotive), the journal box of a driving
axle. See Illust. of {Locomotive}.
{Driving note} (Mus.), a syncopated note; a tone begun on a
weak part of a measure and held through the next accented
part, thus anticipating the accent and driving it through.
{Driving spring}, a spring fixed upon the box of the driving
axle of a locomotive engine to support the weight and
deaden shocks. [Eng.] --Weale.
{Driving wheel} (Mach.), a wheel that communicates motion;
one of the large wheels of a locomotive to which the
connecting rods of the engine are attached; -- called
also, simply, driver. See Illust. of {Locomotive}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
dynamical \dynamical\ adjective [Narrower terms: {can-do}; {driving};
{energizing, energising, kinetic}; {forceful, slashing,
vigorous}; {projectile}; {propellant, propellent, propelling,
propulsive}; {renascent, resurgent}; {self-propelled,
self-propelling}; {high-octane, high-powered, high-power,
high-voltage}]
[WordNet 1.5] Dynamically \Dy*nam"ic*al*ly\, adverb
In accordance with the principles of dynamics or moving
forces. --J. Peile.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
151 Moby Thesaurus words for "driving":
acid, action, active, actuating, advancing, adventuresome,
adventurous, agency, aggressive, ambitious, animating, assailing,
assaulting, attacking, automobiling, bicycling, biking, biting,
blinding, busing, cat-and-doggish, causal, causative, charging,
coactive, compelling, compulsatory, compulsive, compulsory,
conduct, constraining, corrosive, cutting, cycling, direction,
directive, drippy, drizzling, drizzly, drumming, dynamic,
effective, enterprising, equitation, execution, exercise, forceful,
forcible, functioning, go-ahead, gripping, gutsy, handling,
holding, horseback riding, horsemanship, hustling, impellent,
impelling, imperative, imperious, impressive, impulsive, in motion,
incisive, incursionary, incursive, inducive, invading, invasionary,
invasive, irresistible, irruptive, lively, management,
manipulation, misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, mobile, mordant, motile,
motivating, motivational, motive, motor, motorcycling, motoring,
moving, nervous, obsessing, obsessional, obsessive, occupation,
operancy, operation, pedaling, pelting, penetrating, performance,
performing, piercing, pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, poignant,
possessing, pouring, powerful, practice, preoccupying, pressing,
propellant, propelling, propulsive, propulsory, pulsive, punchy,
pushful, pushing, pushy, rainy, responsibility, restraining,
riding, running, sensational, shoving, showery, sinewed, sinewy,
slashing, steering, stirring, streaming, striking, strong, telling,
thrusting, transitional, traveling, trenchant, up-and-coming,
urgent, venturesome, venturous, vigorous, vital, work, working,
workings
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