[syn: driving, impulsive]
2. acting with vigor;
- Example: "responsibility turned the spoiled playboy into a driving young executive"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
dynamical \dynamical\ adj. [Narrower terms: can-do; driving;
energizing, energising, kinetic; forceful, slashing,
vigorous; projectile; propellant, propellent, propelling,
propulsive; renascent, resurgent; self-propelled,
self-propelling; high-octane, high-powered, high-power,
high-voltage]
[WordNet 1.5] Dynamically \Dy*nam"ic*al*ly\, adv.
In accordance with the principles of dynamics or moving
forces. --J. Peile.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), v. t. [imp. Drove (dr[=o]v),
formerly Drave (dr[=a]v); p. p. Driven (dr[i^]v'n); p.
pr. & vb. n. Driving.] [AS. dr[imac]fan; akin to OS.
dr[imac]ban, D. drijven, OHG. tr[imac]ban, G. treiben, Icel.
dr[imac]fa, Goth. dreiban. Cf. Drift, Drove.]
1. To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from
one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to
move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to
drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.
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A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. --Jowett
(Thucyd. ).
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Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along.
--Pope.
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Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. --Pope.
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2. To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which
draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also,
to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by
beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive
a person to his own door.
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How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother!
--Thackeray.
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3. To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain;
to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive
a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of
circumstances, by argument, and the like. " Enough to
drive one mad." --Tennyson.
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He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do
the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had
done for his. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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4. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
[Now used only colloquially.] --Bacon.
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The trade of life can not be driven without
partners. --Collier.
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5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
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To drive the country, force the swains away.
--Dryden.
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6. (Mining) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery
or tunnel. --Tomlinson.
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7. To pass away; -- said of time. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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8. Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, etc., to
propel (the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible
throw.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
9. to operate (a vehicle) while it is on motion, by
manipulating the controls, such as the steering,
propulsion, and braking mechanisms.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Driving \Driv"ing\, n.
1. The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of
pressing or moving on furiously.
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2. Tendency; drift. [R.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Driving \Driv"ing\, a.
1. Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or
storm.
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2. Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft.
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Driving axle, the axle of a driving wheel, as in a
locomotive.
Driving box (Locomotive), the journal box of a driving
axle. See Illust. of Locomotive.
Driving note (Mus.), a syncopated note; a tone begun on a
weak part of a measure and held through the next accented
part, thus anticipating the accent and driving it through.
Driving spring, a spring fixed upon the box of the driving
axle of a locomotive engine to support the weight and
deaden shocks. [Eng.] --Weale.
Driving wheel (Mach.), a wheel that communicates motion;
one of the large wheels of a locomotive to which the
connecting rods of the engine are attached; -- called
also, simply, driver. See Illust. of Locomotive.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
driving
adj 1: having the power of driving or impelling; "a driving
personal ambition"; "the driving force was his innate
enthusiasm"; "an impulsive force" [syn: driving,
impulsive]
2: acting with vigor; "responsibility turned the spoiled playboy
into a driving young executive"
n 1: hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver; "he sliced
his drive out of bounds" [syn: drive, driving]
2: the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle
or animal
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
151 Moby Thesaurus words for "driving":
acid, action, active, actuating, advancing, adventuresome,
adventurous, agency, aggressive, ambitious, animating, assailing,
assaulting, attacking, automobiling, bicycling, biking, biting,
blinding, busing, cat-and-doggish, causal, causative, charging,
coactive, compelling, compulsatory, compulsive, compulsory,
conduct, constraining, corrosive, cutting, cycling, direction,
directive, drippy, drizzling, drizzly, drumming, dynamic,
effective, enterprising, equitation, execution, exercise, forceful,
forcible, functioning, go-ahead, gripping, gutsy, handling,
holding, horseback riding, horsemanship, hustling, impellent,
impelling, imperative, imperious, impressive, impulsive, in motion,
incisive, incursionary, incursive, inducive, invading, invasionary,
invasive, irresistible, irruptive, lively, management,
manipulation, misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, mobile, mordant, motile,
motivating, motivational, motive, motor, motorcycling, motoring,
moving, nervous, obsessing, obsessional, obsessive, occupation,
operancy, operation, pedaling, pelting, penetrating, performance,
performing, piercing, pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, poignant,
possessing, pouring, powerful, practice, preoccupying, pressing,
propellant, propelling, propulsive, propulsory, pulsive, punchy,
pushful, pushing, pushy, rainy, responsibility, restraining,
riding, running, sensational, shoving, showery, sinewed, sinewy,
slashing, steering, stirring, streaming, striking, strong, telling,
thrusting, transitional, traveling, trenchant, up-and-coming,
urgent, venturesome, venturous, vigorous, vital, work, working,
workings