Meaning of Driving | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The action of the verb to drive in any sense.
   countable, uncountable
2. Drive.
3. In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.
   countable, uncountable
4. Series of pipes enabled for the distribution a liquid or a gas.
5. Disposed to action:active, brisk, dynamic, dynamical, energetic, enterprising, lively, peppy, sprightly, spry, vigorous, zippy.
6. The act of driving the ball; hitting the ball a long distance, especially from the tee to the putting green.
   countable, uncountable
7. Transmitting power or motion.
8. Violent, intense, or forceful: a driving rain.
9. Energetic or active: a driving personality.
10. having or moving with force and violence: driving rain.
11. forceful or energetic
12. relating to the controlling of a motor vehicle in motion: driving test.
13. having force and violence: a driving storm.
14. vigorously active; energetic.
15. relaying or transmitting power.

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Examples

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

“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.”

“Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.”

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

“Ever since I started talking to myself with this new attitude toward my driving and my performance on the first tee and the first few holes, I have experienced consistently better performance with my driver.”

“There is no such being as a golfer uninterested in his driving.”

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