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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