DRIVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does driving mean? 

• DRIVING (noun)
  The noun DRIVING has 2 senses:

1. hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver

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

  Familiarity information: DRIVING used as a noun is rare.

• DRIVING (adjective)
  The adjective DRIVING has 2 senses:

1. having the power of driving or impelling

2. acting with vigor

  Familiarity information: DRIVING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRIVING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

drive; driving

Context example:

he sliced his drive out of bounds

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)

Sense 2

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...):

direction; guidance; steering (the act of setting and holding a course)

travel; traveling; travelling (the act of going from one place to another)

Domain member category:

automobile (travel in an automobile)

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)

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)

conk; stall (come to a stop)

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)

• DRIVING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the power of driving or impelling

Synonyms:

driving; impulsive

Context example:

an impulsive force

Similar:

dynamic; dynamical (characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Acting with vigor

Context example:

responsibility turned the spoiled playboy into a driving young executive

Similar:

energetic (possessing or exerting or displaying energy)

 Context examples 

I did not succeed in suggesting what I was driving at.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Pisces, the place of the new moon, is a gentle sign that generally does not go for hard-driving workouts.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Watson, when you reach London you would oblige me by driving at once to Baker Street with our friend here, and remaining with him until I see you again.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The first thing I knew about it was when I saw you two gentlemen driving back in her dog-cart.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When he had rested himself he set off again, driving his cow towards his mother’s village.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The researchers continue to work on their model to make the batteries viable candidates for extending electric cars' driving range.

(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)

“There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

At the church door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and she to her own house.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He go there and soon he come again, himself driving cart on which a great box; this he himself lift down, though it take several to put it on truck for the ship.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“You’re driving our dogs, and you do what you think best with them.”

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)