Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Transmitting power or motion.
- adj. Violent, intense, or forceful: a driving rain.
- adj. Energetic or active: a driving personality.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of drive.
- adj. That drives (a mechanism or process).
- adj. of wind, etc : That drives forcefully; strong; forceful; violent
- n. The action of the verb to drive in any sense.
- n. In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having great force of impulse.
- adj. Communicating force; impelling.
- n. The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.
- n. rare Tendency; drift.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal
- n. hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
- adj. acting with vigor
- adj. having the power of driving or impelling
Examples
“Quite often when I'm driving somewhere on my own, my cell phone will start vibrating with repeated texts coming in and when I finally get home (we rent a condo together) she will petulantly ask me why I did not respond to her texts and I'll simply reply with "… because I was * driving*??" and stare at her like she's on drugs.”
“C.S. Rolls, in driving from the ‘Cat and Fiddle,’ was evidently so deceived by both the gradient and the corner that he actually threw his mechanic off the car, owing to the vehicle travelling at much higher rate than was allowed for, and the gradient keeping the car running at a great speed right up to the comer.”
“Alabama to demonstrate that two light, and, as regards equipment, comparatively insignificant vessels of war would have little difficulty in driving from the ocean a flag which, three years ago, might have been seen upon every wave of every sea.”
Running the Blockade into the Port of Wilmington, North Carolina
“If they slip up, is there anyone ready to slide into the title driving seat?”
“The Prime Minister promised to spend his premiership fighting for the Big Society, which he described as his driving passion in politics.”
“Rogers stayed on the line with the dispatcher and continued to follow the car which he described as driving on a blown front tire.”
“In my youth, I could have done it drunk and stoned but my body has changed and that kind of driving is out of my league.”
It is realistic to travel from Nogales to Mazatlan in 12 hours?
“I would like to simply share a few relevant quotes that may be helpful in driving some of these points home.”
“Log in to Reply driving is different than in your own home mom2oneson”
Release the Crowley/Gates tapes. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘driving’.
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AGRI - horse breeding
place bet, Przewalski's horse, piaffe, genus Claviceps, stadium jumping, draft animal, snaffle bit, noseband, equestrian sport, endurance riding, curb bit, dressage and 678 more...
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 426 more...
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Things that Terrify You
Those things that seem to penetrate an unholy fear into the depths of your being, but seem relatively normal, or less scary to everyone else.
padded cell, the simpsons, spiders, the dark, my daughter's boy..., my stock portfolio, driving, home ownership, certain combinati..., books split over ..., flaming piano, archaeologists and 12 more...
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In Dreams
falling, flying, taking a test, teeth falling out, being naked in pu..., being chased, driving, being late, getting lost, losing your voice..., speaking in a for..., tsnuamis and 40 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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European World Systems
europe, colonization, defense, barter, feudalism, gunpowder, technology, guns, domination, lords, monarchs, transition and 250 more...
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A list
clench, shudder, clamp, twisting, sharply, thrusting, crashing, pulsing, curling, thrumming, rippling, wrench and 94 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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Life's a beach
hot, tired, car, driving, radio, coast range, 101, neahkahnie mountain, gravel, crunching, shoes off, curtains drawn and 41 more...
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All About Trapster
A list of words related to Trapster, speed traps, speed cameras, red light cameras, and other road hazards and enforcement points.
speed camera, speeding, police, enforcement, law enforcement, red light cameras, trapster, gps, driving, geolocation, crowdsourced, navigation and 16 more...
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