Found 6 hits - Term: driving, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dynamical \dynamical\ adj. 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 \dynam"ically\, adv.
in accordance with the principles of dynamics or moving
forces. --j. peile.
1913 webster
see also:
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
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
drive \drive\ drimacv, v. t. imp. drove dr=ov,
formerly drave dr=av; p. p. driven dri^v'n; p.
pr. vb. n. driving. as. drimacfan; akin to os.
drimacban, d. drijven, ohg. trimacban, g. treiben, icel.
drimacfa, 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.
1913 webster
a storm came on and drove them into pylos. --jowett
thucyd. .
1913 webster
shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along.
--pope.
1913 webster
go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. --pope.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
how . . . proud he was to drive such a brother
--thackeray.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
4. to carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
now used only colloquially. --bacon.
1913 webster
the trade of life can not be driven without
partners. --collier.
1913 webster
5. to clear, by forcing away what is contained.
1913 webster
to drive the country, force the swains away.
--dryden.
1913 webster
6. mining to dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery
or tunnel. --tomlinson.
1913 webster
7. to pass away; -- said of time. obs. --chaucer.
1913 webster
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
see also:
drove drave driven driving drift
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
driving \driv"ing\, a.
1. having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or
storm.
1913 webster
2. communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
see also:
driving axle driving box locomotive driving note driving spring driving wheel
- [4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
driving \driv"ing\, n.
1. the act of forcing or urging something along; the act of
pressing or moving on furiously.
1913 webster
2. tendency; drift. r.
1913 webster
- [5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
driving
adj 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"
n 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
see also:
impulsive drive
- [6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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