Driving

Quick meaning: Driving is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of drive.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of drive.

More Meanings

1. That drives (a mechanism or process).
2. That drives forcefully; strong; forceful; violent (of wind, rain, etc)
3. The action of the verb to drive in any sense.
4. In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.
5. (golf) The act of driving the ball; hitting the ball a long distance, especially from the tee to the putting green.

Example Sentences

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.

[…] 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.

Word Forms

• drivings

Synonyms for driving

Depending on context, synonyms include dynamic, drive, impulsive, energetic, motoring.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include motoring, dynamic, impulsive, energetic, vehicular, vehicle.

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