Crossword clues for driving
driving
- Operate or control a vehicle
- The act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal
- Cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
- Cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
- Forceful
- Vigorous water sport held around river
- Forceful Republican enters in fall
- On the road
- Kind of iron
- With accuracy or distance, a golf stat
- MADD word
- It may be illegal to call while doing this
- Going by car
- Chauffeur's work
- Hard and windblown Hindu Kush, say, where shots fired repeatedly?
- With 11-Down, bugging no end
- Cricket hit very hard and straight with the bat swinging more or less vertically
- Hunting chase from cover into more open ground
- Hunting search for game
- Mining excavate horizontally
- Proceed along in a vehicle
- Move by being propelled by a force
- Move into a desired direction of discourse
- Exert oneself, make an effort to reach a goal
- Push, propel, or press with force
- Compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment
- Cause to move back by force or influence
- To compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
- Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- Travel or be transported in a vehicle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
1 That drives (a mechanism or process). 2 (sense: of wind, rain, etc) That drives forcefully; strong; forceful; violent n. 1 The action of the verb '''to drive''' in any sense. 2 In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle. v
(present participle of drive English)
WordNet
adj. having the power of driving or impelling; "a driving personal ambition"; "the driving force was his innate enthusiasm"; "an impulsive force" [syn: impulsive]
acting with vigor; "responsibility turned the spoiled playboy into a driving young executive"
n. hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver; "he sliced his drive out of bounds" [syn: drive]
the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal
Wikipedia
Driving most often refers to the controlled operation and movement of a motorized vehicle, such as a car, truck, or bus.
Driving is the process of controlling a vehicle.
Driving or Drivin' may also refer to:
- Driving (horse), is the control of an equine harnessed to a vehicle or to a piece of mobile equipment that, for example, carries out agricultural work.
- Driving (social), the act of influencing a person's behaviour
- " Drivin'", a song by Pearl Harbor and the Explosions
- "Drivin'", a song by The Kinks from their album Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
- Combined driving, is an equestrian sport involving carriage driving
- Driving force, an externally applied force that changes the frequency of a harmonic oscillator
- Herding, the act of influencing livestock to move in a particular direction
- alternate name for In the Car, a Roy Lichtenstein painting
Driving, when applied to horses, ponies, mules, or donkeys, is a broad term for hitching equines to a wagon, carriage, cart, sleigh, or other horse-drawn vehicle by means of a harness and working them in this way. It encompasses a wide range of activities from pleasure driving, to harness racing, to farm work, horse shows, and even International combined driving competition sanctioned by the FEI. The term in harness often is used to describe a horse being driven.
Usage examples of "driving".
Inhaling a ragged, brutal breath, using every ounce of will bred into him by the harsh, Absarokee tradition, Hazard crushed down the overwhelming emotions driving him to take this woman and very deliberately pulled her arms from around his neck and stepped away from her.
A planet abides that life which accepts its whims, but man it rejects, man it seeks to obliterate, pitting the monumental force of its instability against that pitiful life form, driving man forth to seek the stars or die.
Octavian learned that Antony had changed his mind about driving for Rome through Campania and turned to follow his first three legions up the Adriatic coast to Italian Gaul and Decimus Brutus, he decided to march on Rome.
The Africans seemed to prefer trees for their hives, but they were capable of attacking an anthill, driving out the ants and remodelling the hill for themselves.
I dreamed forebodingly of driving the several miles to the airfoil shed and doing such-and-such to one of the cutting-edge craft by torchlight, by dreamlight.
Gys without accident or delay--a fact that rendered Ajo quite proud of his skillful driving.
Little Maurie was driving the ambulance again and, with Ajo beside him and Dr.
He was a rookie, driving a second-string team for a powerful Alaskan kennel.
Next morning they resumed their journey, and halted one night more before they reached Tepellene, in approaching which they met a carriage, not inelegantly constructed after the German fashion, with a man on the box driving four-in-hand, and two Albanian soldiers standing on the footboard behind.
Kim would take the kids to her rehearsals, and he would save his sister a trip to school by picking them all up and driving them home.
I could now, that that man driving a European sports car rather too fast through the main highway nexus was probably a supporter of the Citizens of Vados, and that consequently the long-faced Amerind lighting a candle and crossing himself before the wall shrine in the market was prepared to hate him on principle.
As a result of this massive three-pronged amphibious operation, North Africa west of Tunisia was denied to the Axis, valuable airdromes, military, naval and antisubmarine bases were secured, and foundations laid for driving the Germans out of North Africa.
Like frightened sheep they ran, and behind them, driving them as sheep might be driven, came Tarzan and Sheeta and the hideous apes of Akut.
But if we question Classical thought at the level of what, archaeologically, made it possible, we perceive that the dissociation of the sign and resemblance in the early seventeenth century caused these new forms -probability, analysis, combination, and universal language system - to emerge, not as successive themes engendering one another or driving one another out, but as a single network of necessities.
It would be the French campaign of 1940 all over again: then German tanks had plunged through the Ardennes and all the way to the English Channel, splintering the British-French coalition, demoralizing the French Army and driving the British off the Continent.