driving

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having the power of driving or impelling

   a driving personal ambition

2. 2
   adj

   acting with vigor

   responsibility turned the spoiled playboy into a driving young executive

3. 3
   adj

   That drives (a mechanism or process).

   But the dull, cool, calculating effect given cumulatively through Stalin’s long career, the air of a great glacier moving slowly and by the easiest path to overwhelm some Alpine valley, is only part of the picture. At various times - and especially in his early career - the calm of his general manner was broken, and expression given to the driving emotions that possessed him.

4. 4
   noun

   The action of the verb to drive in any sense.

   […] with all its drivings of cattle and all its tithe battles, and all the killings and maimings consequent upon those battles, […]

5. 5
   noun

   In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.

   There had been the whisky and Perrier in the morning but, in my ignorance of alcoholics then, I could not imagine one whisky harming anyone who was driving in an open car in the rain.

6. 6
   noun

   The act of driving the ball; hitting the ball a long distance, especially from the tee to the putting green.

   Heigh-ho! Sing heigh-ho! my Golf is most shocking; My driving is topping, my caddie's still mocking.

7. 7
   noun

   the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal

8. 8
   noun

   hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver

Etymology

From Middle English dryvyng, drivende, from Old English drīfende, from Proto-Germanic *drībandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *drībaną (“to drive”), equivalent to drive + -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian drieuwend, West Frisian driuwend, Dutch drijvend, German Low German drievend, German treibend, Swedish drivande.