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DRIVING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("driving" is a kind of...):
travel; traveling; travelling (the act of going from one place to another)
direction; guidance; steering (the act of setting and holding a course)
Domain member category:
snowmobile (ride a snowmobile)
joyride; tool; tool around (ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it)
double-park (park a vehicle alongside another)
parallel-park (park directly behind another vehicle)
angle-park (park at an angle)
park (maneuver a vehicle into a parking space)
cruise (drive around aimlessly but ostentatiously and at leisure)
test drive (test a vehicle by driving it)
coach (drive a coach)
drive (operate or control a vehicle)
automobile (travel in an automobile)
drive; take (proceed along in a vehicle)
drive; motor (travel or be transported in a vehicle)
brake (stop travelling by applying a brake)
brake (cause to stop by applying the brakes)
draw up; pull up (cause (a vehicle) to stop)
draw up; haul up; pull up (come to a halt after driving somewhere)
rein; rein in (stop or slow up one's horse or oneself by or as if by pulling the reins)
turn on a dime (have a small turning radius)
pull up short (stop abruptly)
drive up (approach while driving)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "driving"):
motoring (the act of driving an automobile)
Derivation:
drive (push, propel, or press with force)
drive (operate or control a vehicle)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
Example:
he sliced his drive out of bounds
Synonyms:
drive; driving
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("driving" is a kind of...):
golf shot; golf stroke; swing (the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it)
Derivation:
drive (strike with a driver, as in teeing off)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having the power of driving or impelling
Example:
an impulsive force
Synonyms:
driving; impulsive
Classified under:
Similar:
dynamic; dynamical (characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Acting with vigor
Example:
responsibility turned the spoiled playboy into a driving young executive
Classified under:
Similar:
energetic (possessing or exerting or displaying energy)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb drive
Context examples:
His hunger was driving him too compellingly—only—only he wondered if Bill, too, were lost.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Far from her intention, her words were maddening me, driving me on.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Earlier this year Tesla’s founder Elon Musk announced that a new long-haul truck would be revealed in September but did not mention plans to make it self-driving.
(Tesla to Test Self-driving Electric Trucks, VOA News)
"It gives you that driving pulse, I think, that drives the music forward. And the woodblocks sort of do that as well," he said.
(Does Our Galaxy Sound Like Funky Blues Music?, George Putic/VOA)
Other common phobias involve tunnels, highway driving, water, flying, animals and blood.
(Phobias, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)
Parkinson's Disease Quality of Life Scale (PDQUALIF) In the past 7 days, my Parkinson's symptoms have interfered with my driving ability.
(PDQUALIF - Driving in Past 7 Days, NCI Thesaurus)
NOD1 and NOD2, two prototypic NLRs, sense the cytosolic presence of the bacterial peptidoglycan fragments that escaped from endosomal compartments, driving the activation of NF-kappa-B and MAPK, cytokine production and apoptosis.
(NOD-Like Receptor Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
Injuries can happen at work or play, indoors or outdoors, driving a car, or walking across the street.
(Injuries, NIH)
On the other hand, were there dull patience needed with steady toil and strain of memory, no single fact could by any driving be fixed in her mind.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I remember thinking that it was strange that any one should be driving away from Crawley on a great night like this.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
