Driving

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  • adjective. Transmitting power or motion.
  • adjective. Violent, intense, or forceful.
  • adjective. Energetic or active.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.
  • noun. Tendency; drift.
  • adjective. Having great force of impulse.
  • adjective. Communicating force; impelling.
  • adjective. the axle of a driving wheel, as in a locomotive.
  • adjective. the journal box of a driving axle. See Illust. of Locomotive.
  • adjective. 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.
  • adjective. a spring fixed upon the box of the driving axle of a locomotive engine to support the weight and deaden shocks.
  • adjective. 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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  • verb. Present participle of drive.
  • adjective. That drives (a mechanism or process).
  • adjective. : That drives forcefully; strong; forceful; violent
  • noun. The action of the verb to drive in any sense.
  • noun. In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.
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  • noun. the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal
  • noun. hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
  • adjective. acting with vigor
  • adjective. having the power of driving or impelling
  • Word Usage
    "Quite often when I'm driving somewhere on my own, my cell phone will start vibrating with repeated texts coming in and when I finally get home (we rent a condo together) she will petulantly ask me why I did not respond to her texts and I'll simply reply with "… because I was * driving*??" and stare at her like she's on drugs."
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