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[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
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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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