driving
//ˈdɹaɪvɪŋ//
Forms
- Comparative
- more driving
- Superlative
- most driving
- Plural
- drivings
Definitions
1.present participle and gerund of drive
- The policeman arrested him for drunken driving.
- Keep distance from trucks and other vehicles when driving.
- Tom is good at driving.
1.That drives (a mechanism or process).
2.That drives forcefully; strong; forceful; violent (of wind, rain, etc)
1.The action of the verb to drive in any sense.
2.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.
- 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.
3.The 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.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3817
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
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.