Driving
['draɪvɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal.
(adj.) having the power of driving or impelling; 'a driving personal ambition'; 'the driving force was his innate enthusiasm'; 'an impulsive force' .
(adj.) acting with vigor; 'responsibility turned the spoiled playboy into a driving young executive' .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drive
(a.) Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm.
(a.) Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft.
(n.) The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.
(n.) Tendency; drift.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of driving a carriage, signifies unjust criticism of your seeming extravagance. You will be compelled to do things which appear undignified. To dream of driving a public cab, denotes menial labor, with little chance for advancement. If it is a wagon, you will remain in poverty and unfortunate circumstances for some time. If you are driven in these conveyances by others, you will profit by superior knowledge of the world, and will always find some path through difficulties. If you are a man, you will, in affairs with women, drive your wishes to a speedy consummation. If a woman, you will hold men's hearts at low value after succeeding in getting a hold on them. See Cab or Carriage.
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Examples
- The large and powerful engines on the Great Western Railway have, however, only two driving wheels, which are 8 feet in diameter. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I see what you're driving at. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The coachman, Mr. Boniface, had also had the honour of driving the duchess in auld lang syne. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It ended in her driving them both to the nearest station, more than three hours since. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The first thing I knew about it was when I saw you two gentlemen driving back in her dog-cart. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I had been driving and I sat in the car and the driver took the papers in. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- THAT is what I am driving at, Betteredge. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The motor was located in the front part of the locomotive, on its side, with the armature shaft across the frames, or parallel with the driving axles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The station at Berlin comprised five boilers, and six vertical steam-engines driving by belts twelve Edison dynamos, each of about fifty-five horse-power capacity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The operator in Fig. 6 is shown assembling switch plugs and is in the act of driving home a screw which holds in place the fiber bar over which the cord bends. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We are all familiar with the less powerful ones which are universally used on automobiles for night driving and in a multitude of other every-day practices. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- What are you driving at there? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I believe that the engine driving the four Z generators at the power-house indicated as high as seventy horse-power at the time the locomotive was actually in service. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The umbrella strained and pulled and I felt us driving along with it. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The Sunbury generating plant consisted of an Armington & Sims engine driving two small Edison dynamos having a total capacity of about four hundred lamps of 16 c. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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