driving
demanding a high or unreasonable rate of work from subordinates.
vigorously active; energetic: a driving young executive.
having force and violence: a driving storm.
relaying or transmitting power.
used while operating a vehicle: driving gloves.
Origin of driving
1Other words from driving
- driv·ing·ly, adverb
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How to use driving in a sentence
In just a short period of time, we have achieved breakthrough results in autonomous driving.
Yandex spins out self-driving car unit from its Uber JV, invests $150M into new co | Ingrid Lunden | September 4, 2020 | TechCrunchThat same month, Lyft began using data from its ride-hailing app to build 3D maps, better understand human driving patterns and improve simulation tests for the company’s autonomous vehicle program.
Hear from Lyft, Cruise, Nuro and Aurora about the road ahead for driverless vehicles | Megan Rose Dickey | August 28, 2020 | TechCrunchInfanticide is immoral by any reasonable human standard, but its driving principle is the blindly amoral process of natural selection, which maximizes evolutionary fitness, not matter how fiendish it appears to the horrified human observer.
Just Because It’s Natural Doesn’t Mean It’s Good - Issue 89: The Dark Side | David P. Barash | August 19, 2020 | NautilusIt’s not clear yet whether the flickers are just scaled-down solar flares, or if the two phenomena have different driving mechanisms.
The closest images of the sun ever taken reveal ‘campfire’ flares | Lisa Grossman | July 16, 2020 | Science NewsTuSimple’s trucks will hand the wheel over to a human for off-the-highway driving.
TuSimple’s Robot Big Rigs Will Automate Freight Coast to Coast | Jason Dorrier | July 5, 2020 | Singularity Hub
Father José Julián was shot and wounded driving in a car through the sierra of Ajuchitán.
The gentleman was listed as Orthodox and kosher, which is way too religious for my friend whose JSwipe account I was test-driving.
Her slight miscalculation of how to fix the situation leads to her driving around the gas pump.
Slow Motion Tiger Jump, a Tornado at the Rose Bowl and More Viral Videos | The Daily Beast Video | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTTim Russert and I are driving back to the Albany airport after taking our kids to the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
And for those on the Palestinian right who still dream of driving the Jews into the sea, they too can forget it.
In the Middle East, the Two-State Solution Is Dead | Dean Obeidallah | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTPeople are busy ballooning or driving; shooting like stars along railroads; or migrating like swallows or wild-geese.
On the state-coach went, down the steep, driving the mules madly before it.
The Soldier of the Valley | Nelson LloydI think that there has been neglect and laxity in the matter of not driving out the Japanese.
Once he suddenly found himself in the road driving a small flock of goats, whose he knew not, nor whence he got them.
Ramona | Helen Hunt JacksonAccordingly, she had the boys to hitch a team to a buggy and took him driving over the great estate.
The Homesteader | Oscar Micheaux
British Dictionary definitions for driving
/ (ˈdraɪvɪŋ) /
having or moving with force and violence: driving rain
forceful or energetic
relating to the controlling of a motor vehicle in motion: driving test
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