driving

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of drive

comparative more driving · superlative most driving

1. That drives (a mechanism or process).

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   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.

   1968, Robert Conquest, “The Purge Begins”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 77

2. That drives forcefully; strong; forceful; violent (of wind, rain, etc)

plural drivings

1. countableuncountableThe 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, […]

   1825, Cobbett's Political Register, volume 54, page 789

2. countableuncountableIn 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.

   1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 156

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   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.

   2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76

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

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

   2012, Jeff Silverman, Classic Golf Stories: 26 Incredible Tales from the Links

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

   1899, L.P., “Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind”, in Golf Illustrated, volume 2, page 233

   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.

   2003, Daniel Stewart Acuff, Golf Talk, page 57