drivingn.
/ˈdrʌɪvɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdraɪvɪŋ/ 1. The action or practice of driving (in various senses of drive v.).See also back-seat driving n., cattle-driving n., drink-driving n., grouse-driving n., pile-driving n., team driving n., etc.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > [noun]
driving1436
impulsion?a1475
pulsion1607
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > [noun]
driving1611
autoing1899
1436 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/53/5) f. 12v Carpentariis pro dryvyng de Trenaille.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 132 Dryvynge, or cathchynge [1499 Pynson chasinge], minatus.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cviii In tyme of dryuynge..of whiche Bargayne.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings ix. 20 The driuing is like the driuing of Iehu the sonne of Nimshi; for he driueth furiously. View more context for this quotation
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Driving, amongst sportsmen, a term applied to the taking of young pheasants, and some other birds, in nets of an open structure.
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. xvii. 56 Ten cook's shops! and twice the number of barber's! and all within three minutes driving!
1841 J. Forbes Eleven Years in Ceylon (ed. 2) I. 139 We could distinctly see the progress of the people employed in driving..At last the elephants broke from the jungle.
1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 502/1 Artificial swarming, the mode of proceeding for which varies according to the kind of hive in use. Considering, first, straw skeps, the common hive of the country, the operation to be pursued is known as ‘driving’.
1884 Graphic 20 Sept. 290/2 It is not, however, that over-pressure exists only at Board and voluntary schools. At private schools of a higher class the driving is even worse.
1991 DIY: Do it Yourself June 30/3 Carefully mark on the post the positions of the holding screws. It is wise to drill start holes to make driving easier.
2010 Clacton & Frinton Gaz. (Nexis) 26 July Last week drivers in Clacton were shown videos of dangerous driving and its consequences.
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?a1500 Childhood Jesus (Harl. 2399) l. 179 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 114 Dame, y make dryuyngys [c1450 BL Add. demmynges, a1475 Harl. 3954 dammys] toe, To chyppe þe water.
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the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > other specific types
drivings1682
whisker1752
subaxillary1820
accessory plume1835
flake-feather1837
filoplume1867
penna1871
thread-feather1872
deck-feather1879
streamer1879
racket1887
afterfeather1937
1682 T. Tryon Treat. Cleanness 5 We have many Feathers that are Imported from several Countries, which are the Drivings of old Beds, the Uncleanness whereof is not considered.
Phrases
P1. In various phrases denoting the offence of operating a motor vehicle on a road or in a public place when one's ability to drive safely is impaired by alcohol or drugs, as in driving under the influence, driving while impaired (chiefly U.S.), driving while intoxicated, driving while unfit (chiefly British), etc.Also abbreviated, see DUI n., DWAI n., DWI n.In quot. 1819 not a fixed collocation.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drink-driving
driving while intoxicated1832
drunk driving1937
driving while unfit1941
driving under the influence1960
drink-driving1964
driving while impaired1997
1819 Statesman 22 Feb. An inquest was held..on..a hackney-coachman, who fell from his box on the pavement, in consequence of driving, while intoxicated.]
1832 Lincoln, Rutland, & Stamford Mercury 6 Apr. Jos. Spooner..paid 9s. (penalty and costs) for furious driving while intoxicated.
1941 Irish Times 21 Oct. 5/5 [He]..was fined £25 and suspended for a year for driving while unfit owing to the influence of drink.
1960 H. Williams & M. Williams Double Yolk in Plays of Year XXI. 47 He said I must go to the station with him, as he'd have to charge me with driving under the influence.
1997 Neon Sept. 14/3 The fun-loving journalist..recently pleaded no contest to his own charge of speeding and driving while impaired.
2019 Express (Nexis) 27 May 17 A 69-year-old man from Ilfracombe was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving, taking a vehicle without consent, driving while disqualified and driving while unfit.
P2. colloquial (chiefly U.S., originally in African-American usage). driving while black (sometimes also brown): the operating of a motor vehicle by a black person (or sometimes a member of another ethnic minority group), referred to ironically as an offence, with reference to the disproportionate number of black or ethnic minority drivers stopped by police, apparently for reasons of racial bias rather than infringement of traffic regulations.Also abbreviated, see DWB n. [Ironic alteration of driving while intoxicated at Phrases 1.]
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1990 N.Y. Times 21 May b4/1 We get arrested for D.W.B... You know, driving while black.
1996 Sports Illustr. 10 June 69/2 As the white policeman kept asking questions that night, he began to feel he was being stopped for the infraction referred to by some African-Americans as DWB—Driving While Black.
1999 Salt Lake Tribune (Nexis) 2 May c1 ‘We've had some problems with Hispanics being targeted by police—“driving while brown”,’ she said.
2002 Barron's 18 Mar. 43/2 Creating a national ID-card system would mean that many people now unjustly subjected to discrimination and harassment—people ‘driving while black’, or ‘flying while Arab’—would be empowered with a quick and easy means of giving a good account of themselves.
Compounds
C1. With adverbs, forming compound nouns corresponding to adverbial combinations of drive v., as in driving-away, driving-out, etc.
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1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 4th Serm. sig. Li Without anye delayes, or dryuynge of.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Dechassement, a driuing away.
1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos iv. 46 Their drivings on after them in the dark, will be but heavily and too slowly to overtake or bring them back again.
1890 Quiver 25 538/1 Had this peaceful-looking face ever been in London?..Had it seen..what man does to his fellow-man—the pushing, the crushing, the throat-seizing, the drivings-out into the middle of the road?
1960 H. Nemerov New Poems in Coll. Poems (1977) 230 All the crossing moments, the comings-together and drivings-apart.
2007 J. Pfaelzer Driven Out (2008) vi. 226 In other words, they argued, a purge, an expulsion, a driving out, was an international crime.
C2.
a.
(a) As a modifier, with the sense ‘of, relating to, suitable for, or designed for driving in a car, carriage, etc.’.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.
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1733 G. Nisbet Caledon's Tears iii. i. 18 He darting downwards, drops his driving Reins.
1788 A. Hughes Henry & Isabella I. 77 Moving slowly round the driving way.
1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. (Gloss.) 218 Driving Cushion, a deep cushion made..for the driver to sit on.
1887 Daily News 16 May 2/6 The institution of the two four-in-hand driving clubs.
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 July 6/1 Beautiful driving weather.
1966 B. Kimenye Kalasanda Revisited 98 She asked if she could take driving lessons.
1971 M. Tak Truck Talk 131 The National Truck Roadeo, an exhibition and competition of driving skills in various classifications of motor vehicles for expert truckers.
1996 Total Sport July 24/3 [He] is found guilty of vehicular homicide and given..an 18-month driving ban and probation for two years.
2003 Independent 9 Jan. 3/3 Snow showers brought perilous driving conditions to the northern half of the county.
(b) As a modifier, designating clothing or footwear designed to be worn while driving a vehicle, as in driving coat, driving gloves, etc.
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1788 World & Fashionable Advertiser 1 May (advt.) He keeps Ladies and Gentlemen's dressing and powdering gowns, Gentlemen's driving Coats, Coachmen's box coats, and servants duffled jackets and waistcoats.
1810 Sporting Mag. 36 240 A driving coat of Yorkshire drab.
1884 T. C. J. West Doom of Doolandour II. xi. 119 Victorine, give me my light waterproof coat and driving hat and gloves, and put a warm shawl into the carriage.
1922 J. C. Van Dyke Open Spaces ix. 170 Driving-boots to the knee with iron calked soles and heels.
1940 Pop. Mech. 13/3 (caption) Driving jacket with word ‘stop’ outlined in bright reflectors makes hand signal easier to see at night.
2004 Independent 15 Jan. 50/1 Normally I don't do driving gloves, as they tend to make whoever wears them look and feel a little like a chauffeur.
b. As a modifier, designating a part of machinery which transmits motion to other parts, or is a component of a part transmitting such motion, as in driving axle, driving belt, driving chain, driving pulley, driving shaft, driving spring.Recorded earliest in driving wheel n.
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1752 Gentleman's Diary 26 Whilst this driving Wheel revolves once, the upright Wheel, or that which hath 8 Pinions, will revolve 5.625 Times.
1823 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 5 126 The speed may be altered..by several other well known modes of regulating the speed of a driving shaft.
1830 Mechanics' Mag. 21 Aug. 418/1 J is a driving pulley, which turns a shaft or spindle, working within the cylinder.
1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 15 358 Leathern driving-belts were used in working the machinery at the factory.
1938 J.-B. O. Sneeden Introd. Internal Combustion Engin. (new ed.) xiii. 254 The engines were connected with the driving axle through an intermediate shaft.
1945 C. E. Balleisen Princ. Firearms vi. 57 The forward velocity of the bolt is composed both of velocity imparted by the rebound from the backplate and by the energy transferred from the driving spring.
1979 J. Muirden Sidgwick's Amateur Astronomer's Handbk. (ed. 4) xiv. 240 Interference with the worm is objectionable because backlash in the driving chain between worm and motor will almost certainly result in lost motion.
2018 Times (Ireland ed.) (Nexis) 6 Oct. (Weekend section) 24 There was a fine resinous smell of sawdust, a quiet clanking from the wheel and a rattle from the slack old driving belt.
c. As a modifier, designating a tool, device, or implement used in driving something into position, or into a solid material, by striking, hammering, etc. Cf. drive v. 10.
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1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Repoussoir, a driving-bolt, used by ship-wrights to knock out some other from its station.
1874 York Herald 23 Mar. 7/6 There are..stores of oil, saws, nails, lamps, driving chisels, and ironwork of all kinds.
1895 Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 120 338 Numerous ‘jack-pages’, ‘driving-wedges’, and ‘slack-blocks’ were used in fixing the work, as much depended on tight wedging to make good the timbering.
1973 Scouting May 58/2 Equipment—Hand ax, driving mallet, chopping block and wood for each patrol.
1991 Pop. Sci. Mar. 63/2 Engineers strengthened the clay stratum by driving 6.6-foot-diameter casings into the clay and pouring sand into the casings, compacting it with a vibrator or a driving hammer.
2008 House Beautiful (Nexis) 1 Feb. 30 In the 18th century, upholsterers used..a driving bolt to protect gilt nailheads from the hammer.
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a. Compounds relating to driving a vehicle.
driving instructor n. a person whose occupation is to teach people to drive a vehicle (now esp. a motor vehicle).In quot. 1892 not a fixed collocation.
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1892 Rep. Royal Comm. Mil. Service 47 in Votes & Proc. Legislative Assembly New S. Wales 1892–3 (1893) VII. The gun-teams are driven by drivers from Permanent Artillery. We have an instructor who instructs them in equitation... Do these driving instructors go round the Colony? No; it is all done in Sydney.
1904 Autocar 20 Aug. 26/2 (advt.) Do you desire to drive and thoroughly understand your own car? If so, write to W.S. Keeble, late driving instructor to the Automobile Club.
2013 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 3 May 25 Driving instructor Austin Hughes was going to observe me..as I undertook and performed a number of tricky manoeuvres.
driving licence n. a licence which allows a person to operate a vehicle; (now) esp. a document permitting a person to drive a motor vehicle; = driver's licence n.See also provisional driving licence n.In North America the more usual term is now driver's licence.In quot. 1874: a licence to drive a hackney cab.
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1874 J. Greenwood Wilds of London 113 Night cabs [took] from seven shillings to nine—the master holding the man's driving licence as security for the day's money.
1920 Times 4 Dec. 7/1 Naval officer's driving licence suspended... Lieutenant George P. Kingston..was fined £2..for being drunk while in charge of a motor-car.
2000 Environmental Health News (Chartered Inst. Environmental Health) 18 Feb. 12/1 (advt.) The post carries an essential user car allowance, therefore a full and current driving licence is required.
driving mirror n. a small mirror inside or on the side of a motor vehicle, enabling the driver to see what is behind or to the side of the vehicle; spec. a small angled mirror fixed inside the windscreen for this purpose.Cf. rearview mirror at rear view n. 2a, wing mirror n. (b) at wing n. Compounds 2.In North America the more usual term is rearview mirror.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > mirror > [noun] > looking-glass
looking-glass1526
Venice glass1527
tooting-glassc1560
seeing-glass1565
girdle-glassa1652
Venice looking-glass1655
considering-glass1660
peeper1673
long glass1680
table glass1688
dressing glass1697
keeking-glassa1724
toilet glass1729
long mirror1793
swing-glass1809
hand glass1832
cheval-glass1836
psyche1838
tire-glass1844
tiring-glass1844
driving mirror1907
wing mirror1925
swing mirror1930
vanity mirror1959
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > rear-view mirror
driving mirror1907
rear view1911
wing mirror1925
1907 Illustr. Sporting & Dramatic News 18 May 479/2 (advt.) A cheap and well-made driving mirror, with universal joint, giving wide view of the road behind.
1995 J. Miller & M. Stacey Driving Instructor's Handbk. vi. 195 All new motor cars must be fitted with two rear-view driving mirrors—one inside, the other mounted on the exterior offside.
2010 Grimsby Tel. (Nexis) 11 Nov. (Features section) 11 There is good all-round-visibility.., but I needed to remove the centre rear headrest for a better view through the driving mirror.
driving school n. a business which provides instruction for people learning to drive a vehicle (now esp. a motor vehicle).In earliest use in riding and driving school: an establishment which trains horses, and provides instruction in riding and in driving coaches, carriages, etc.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > [noun] > driving or operating a motor vehicle > driving school
driving school1901
motor-school1909
1825 Morning Chron. 10 Nov. Mr. Humphreys, who keeps the celebrated riding and driving school, in the Waterloo-road.
1901 Outing Feb. 620/1 Questions pertaining to automobile repair shops..and driving schools.
1995 J. Miller & M. Stacey Driving Instructor's Handbk. (ed. 8) xi. 328 Most driving instructors work for themselves, in isolation from the rest of the profession, operating one-car driving schools.
driving test n. a test of a person's ability to drive a vehicle; (now) spec. an official test of a motorist's competence which must be passed in order to obtain a full driving licence.In quot. 1874 in Fisher's driving test: (at a horse show) a test of skill in driving a horse-drawn vehicle.
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1874 Leeds Mercury 16 May 3/4 Mr. Richard Smith..who won the award for Fisher's driving test.
1933 Punch 13 Dec. 662/1 Reasonable plea for a driving-test was put forward by Lord Howe.
2010 Independent 10 Sept. 19/1 From next month all learner drivers will be expected to demonstrate their own navigational skills to pass their driving test.
b. Compounds relating to Golf.
driving cleek n. now historical (originally) a cleek (cleek n. 1b) used for longer shots, as opposed to one used for putting (cf. putting cleek n.); (in later use chiefly) a version of a cleek with a less lofted club-face and a longer shaft.In quot. 1998 with reference to Harry Vardon, professional golfer (1870–1907), author of Compl. Golfer (1905).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > club > types of club
play club1685
putting club1690
gentlemen's club1709
putter1783
spoon1790
iron1793
sand-iron1796
whip-club1808
cleek1829
driving putter1833
bunker-iron1857
driver1857
niblick1857
putting iron1857
baffing-spoon1858
mid-spoon1858
short spoon1858
sand-club1873
three-wood1875
long iron1877
driving cleek1881
mashie1881
putting cleek1881
track-iron1883
driving iron1887
lofting-iron1887
baffy1888
brassy1888
bulger1889
lofter1889
lofter1892
jigger1893
driving mashie1894
mid-iron1897
mashie-niblick1907
wood1915
pinsplitter1916
chipper1921
blaster1937
sand-wedge1937
wedge1937
1881 R. Forgan Golfer's Handbk. 12 The ‘Driving Cleek’, or Cleek proper, is ubiquitously useful.
1896 W. Park Game of Golf 28 The plain driving-cleek is just an ordinary cleek, with less loft than usual on the face and a longer shaft.
1998 Irish Times (Nexis) 9 May (Sport section) 73 Vardon wrote that he used 10 clubs... His golfing arsenal included a driving cleek, a light cleek, a mashie, niblick and putter.
driving iron n. an iron with little loft on the club-face, used to hit the ball a long way; a one iron; (now) spec. a specialist iron for driving with a low trajectory from the tee, designed to be easier to use than a traditional long iron and more accurate than a driver.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > club > types of club
play club1685
putting club1690
gentlemen's club1709
putter1783
spoon1790
iron1793
sand-iron1796
whip-club1808
cleek1829
driving putter1833
bunker-iron1857
driver1857
niblick1857
putting iron1857
baffing-spoon1858
mid-spoon1858
short spoon1858
sand-club1873
three-wood1875
long iron1877
driving cleek1881
mashie1881
putting cleek1881
track-iron1883
driving iron1887
lofting-iron1887
baffy1888
brassy1888
bulger1889
lofter1889
lofter1892
jigger1893
driving mashie1894
mid-iron1897
mashie-niblick1907
wood1915
pinsplitter1916
chipper1921
blaster1937
sand-wedge1937
wedge1937
1887 Belfast News-let. 31 Jan. 3/5 Out of the nine holes there are only two that can be reached without the driver. These can be taken by either the driving-iron or the cleek.
1890 H. G. Hutchinson in H. G. Hutchinson et al. Golf (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 64 There are heavy irons and light irons, driving irons, lofting irons, and sand irons.
2018 Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Nexis) 2 Apr. 37 In other tournaments we've seen him go to his driving iron off the tee rather than a driver.
driving mashie n. now historical a version of a mashie (mashie n.) with a less lofted club-face and a longer shaft.In quot. 1994 with reference to Harry Vardon, professional golfer (1870–1907), author of Compl. Golfer (1905).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > club > types of club
play club1685
putting club1690
gentlemen's club1709
putter1783
spoon1790
iron1793
sand-iron1796
whip-club1808
cleek1829
driving putter1833
bunker-iron1857
driver1857
niblick1857
putting iron1857
baffing-spoon1858
mid-spoon1858
short spoon1858
sand-club1873
three-wood1875
long iron1877
driving cleek1881
mashie1881
putting cleek1881
track-iron1883
driving iron1887
lofting-iron1887
baffy1888
brassy1888
bulger1889
lofter1889
lofter1892
jigger1893
driving mashie1894
mid-iron1897
mashie-niblick1907
wood1915
pinsplitter1916
chipper1921
blaster1937
sand-wedge1937
wedge1937
1894 Yorks. Evening Post 17 Oct. 2/6 To the uninitiated eye the iron clubs have a decidedly lethal look, particularly the driving-mashie, for it has an extra long shaft, and a head of especial ominousness.
1994 Forbes (Nexis) 21 Nov. 57 Vardon won his many tournaments with a putter and just six clubs: driver, brassie, cleek, driving mashie, iron and mashie.
driving putter n. now historical a golf club used to drive a very low ball against strong wind.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > club > types of club
play club1685
putting club1690
gentlemen's club1709
putter1783
spoon1790
iron1793
sand-iron1796
whip-club1808
cleek1829
driving putter1833
bunker-iron1857
driver1857
niblick1857
putting iron1857
baffing-spoon1858
mid-spoon1858
short spoon1858
sand-club1873
three-wood1875
long iron1877
driving cleek1881
mashie1881
putting cleek1881
track-iron1883
driving iron1887
lofting-iron1887
baffy1888
brassy1888
bulger1889
lofter1889
lofter1892
jigger1893
driving mashie1894
mid-iron1897
mashie-niblick1907
wood1915
pinsplitter1916
chipper1921
blaster1937
sand-wedge1937
wedge1937
1833 G. F. Carnegie Golfiana 14 I see M—t M—lle stand Erect, his driving putter in his hand.
1857 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 693/2 The driving-putter is shorter in the shank than the play-club..The driving-putter sends ‘skimming’ balls, and so ‘cheats the wind’.
1995 Shafter (Calif.) Press 11 Jan. 4 a/2 There were two putters—a driving putter and a greens putter.
driving range n. an area equipped for practising long golf shots, esp. drives.
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1929 Los Angeles Times 17 Apr. iii. 3/2 The Sunset Fields public golf course company has about decided to install a driving range on its property.
1998 Today's Golfer May 144/1 So many golfers go to their nearest driving range with a handful of clubs, plonk themselves in a free bay and smack the hell out of golf balls for an hour or so.
c. Other compounds.† driving-pike n. North American Obsolete a long pole, esp. one fitted with a metal hook and spike at one end, used by loggers for moving and guiding floating logs; = pike-pole n. 1.
driving band n. (a) a belt or strap transmitting motion in machinery; (b) Gunnery a band of softer material around a shell or bullet near its base which is designed to be forced into the rifling in the gun barrel and impart spin to the projectile.
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1823 Bk. Eng. Trades (new ed.) 445 The saws receive a rapid motion by a driving band, from a large turning wheel.
1886 F. C. Morgan Handbk. Artillery Matériel (ed. 3) vi. 56 The driving band in the newest pattern of shells is made broader, and has cannelures round it.
1916 ‘B. Cable’ Doing their Bit v. 70 One girl..is turning the copper driving bands.
1941 Cosmic Stories Mar. 16/2 Row upon row of roaring machines; wheels spinning, levers clicking, long driving-bands clattering, hundreds of little triphammers rising and falling.
2011 Proc. 26th Internat. Symp. Ballistics I. 613 QinetiQ is conducting research into a 155mm lightweight projectile that uses plastic driving bands.
driving block n. a heavy block of wood, metal, etc., placed above or beneath an object being struck with a piledriver, hammer, etc., in order to ensure an even distribution of the driving force.
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1765 R. Jones New Treat. Artific. Fireworks iii. 88 When cases were rammed on driving benches, which were formerly used, the works frequently miscarried, on account of the hollow resistance of the benches..; but this accident has never happened since the driving blocks have been used.
1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 412 In the case of the steam pile-driver..the whole weight of a heavy mass is delivered rapidly upon a driving-block of several tons weight placed directly over the head of the pile.
1901 Railway & Engin. Rev. 5 Oct. 644/1 The tie plates are driven to a seat by means of a driving block and sledge.
2002 Standard Specif. Constr. Local Streets & Roads (State of Calif., Dept. Transportation) xlix. 322 Driving heads or driving blocks which hold the pile in position directly under the hammer during driving shall be used.
driving moor n. an area of moorland used for shooting grouse by driving (drive v. 3c), rather than by using dogs.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun]
fieldOE
forest1297
seta1425
chasea1440
hunting-fieldc1680
hunting-ground1721
flying county1856
hunt1857
moor1860
the Shires1860
driving moor1873
beat1875
killing ground1877
flying country1883
killing field1915
1873 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 332/1 The most bigoted votary of point-shooting will always kill as many birds as it is good for the ground to destroy, and this is no more than is done on any driving moor.
1904 Baily's Mag. Oct. 302/2 One can hire a driving moor for 10s. a brace, whereas there is no dog moor that makes less than 20s. a brace of grouse.
1986 Times 19 Apr. 36/1 (advt.) Grouse shooting...Top class driving Moor with excellent hotel accommodation nearby.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumbering equipment > lumberer's hook
pike-pole1765
picaroon1837
pickpole1837
fid-hook1851
driving-pike1877
swamp-hook1877
peavey1878
Samson1905
1877 Lumberman's Gaz. 8 Dec. 362 Each man..carries a ‘driving pike’ or heavy pole some eight feet long.
1886 Leisure Hour 35 258/2 Armed with their spiked shoes and ‘driving-pike’, a long heavy boathook, they follow the logs.
driving stick n. a stick used to drive animals to a particular place.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > goad
goadeOE
prickleOE
yardc1000
prickc1225
gad1289
gorea1325
brodc1375
brodyke1471
pricker?a1475
gad-wand1487
gadstaff1568
stimule1583
goad prick1609
ankus1768
goad stick1773
sjambok1790
driving stick1800
prod1828
sting1842
quirt1845
garrocha1846
gad-stick1866
romal1904
1800 Baretti's Dict. Spanish & Eng, & Eng. & Spanish (new ed.) Aguijada.., a driving stick with a goad.
1909 Woman's Missionary Friend Aug. 280/2 But for the shuffling of the desert sand and the whack of a driving stick the caravan marched in silence.
2019 Die Welt (Nexis) 23 Sept. 16 The pigs just walked into our stable, without a driving stick, without kicks. You don't need all that if you have a good relationship with the animals.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
drivingadj.
/ˈdrʌɪvɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdraɪvɪŋ/ 1.
a. Of the wind, a current, etc.: propelling something forward; strong, forceful (cf. drive v. 9a); (of rain, snow, etc.) driven forcefully by the wind (cf. drive v. 9c).In some instances it is not possible to tell whether driving is being used actively with the sense ‘propelling’ or passively with the sense ‘being driven’ (see e.g. quots. 1823, and 1993).
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > [adjective] > impelling or driving > specifically of winds
drivingc1325
racking1667
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [adjective] > (of rain) driven by wind
drivingc1325
flaw-blown1820
blast-borne1830
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [adjective] > driving or driven
drivingc1325
drivenc1330
driftya1732
stouring1891
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 473 Hii..wende vorþ mid god wind mid wel driuinde flode.
1558 Almanacke for 1559 (single sheet) /5 Driuyng showers, vehement wyndes.
1578 G. Best True Disc. Passage to Cathaya i. 44 The Northerne driuing winds, whiche..are so bitter & sharp, that they kill al ye yong and tender plants.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 113 Perpetual Sleet, and driving Snow. View more context for this quotation
1733 A. Pope Ess. Man iii. 179 Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin Oar, and catch the driving Gale.
a1787 S. Jenyns Wks. (1790) I. 6 The milk-maid safe thro' driving rains and snows Wrapped in her cloak and prop'd on pattens goes.
1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. ii. 183 The driving blast—the dimming rains.
1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. ii. 37 A driving, north-westerly storm succeeded; and before the sun was set, every vestige of spring had vanished.
1862 Harper's Mag. Nov. 755/1 The wind and the driving sleet tore madly in and drenched her and took her breath away.
1972 Audubon Nov. 30/2 Some even lost their way trying to pass from house to house as driving blizzards blotted out all objects in sight.
1993 New Republic 22 Mar. 31/2 The driving wind and rain had forced the Air Force to scratch the scheduled fly-by of f-111s.
2002 Backwoods Home Mag. July 79/3 A well-bedded shelter, providing protection from driving rain or snow.
b. Carried along by the wind, tide, or current, esp. rapidly or forcefully; drifting. Cf. drive v. 9b. Now rare.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > [adjective]
driving1578
drifted1730
drifting1749
1578 G. Best True Disc. Passage to Cathaya iii. 10 To the Northwardes of this coaste wee mette wyth muche driuing Ise, whyche by reason of the thicke mistes and weather might haue bin some trouble vnto vs.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. ii. 10 When you..Hung on our driuing boate. View more context for this quotation
1706 N. Rowe Ulysses iii. 36 Shipwrack'd I floated on a driving Mast.
1709 tr. Ovid Art of Love ii. 133 Nor tax me with Inconstancy; we find The driving Bark requires a veering Wind.
1802 R. Brookes' Gazetteer (ed. 12) at Provincetown The houses are..set upon piles, that the driving sands may pass under them.
1916 W. T. Grenfell Tales Labrador 210 Bakshauk and Kommak were far out on the driving floe hunting seals and walrus.
1975 G. M. Thomson North-west Passage viii. 107 Sooner or later, it seemed, the ship would be crushed in the driving ice at sea or smashed to fragments between the incoming floes and the rocks.
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the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring > protracting or drawing out
driving1585
tractal1632
wire-drawing1741
lengthening1764
the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [adjective]
tarryingc1386
delayous1469
oversettingc1485
dilator1503
tarrysome1513
lingeringa1547
deferringc1565
delaying1576
dilatory1581
driving1585
protractive1596
tarrowinga1598
delayful1600
protracting1600
cunctative1617
suspensivea1623
remorala1625
Penelopeana1627
demurrant1633
remorating1638
retarding1654
tardative1666
temporizing1801
procrastinative1824
tomorrowing1824
procrastinatory1839
postponing1852
cunctatory1862
cunctatious1864
traa dy liooar1878
suspensory1884
off-putting1894
1585 A. Keith Let. 7 Mar. in R. V. Agnew Corr. P. Waus (1887) II. 324 Trewlie ye ar the maist dryveand merchand that evir I delt with all.
1663 T. Bradley Serm. preached in Yorke 41 What thinke you of a driving Lawyer? that is not willing to bring his Clyents Cause to an issue too soon; but..makes it his study to spinne it out with as long a thred as he can.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [adjective] > syncopated
driving1597
syncopated1667
offbeat1924
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 89 The third is a driuing waie in two crotchets and a minime, but added by a rest.
a1704 G. Keller Compl. Method Thorough Bass (1707) 10 Example where Severall driving notes descends by degrees.
1858 J. Currie Elements Musical Anal. 101 Which..has so peculiar an effect in performance as to have sometimes procured for such notes the epithet of ‘driving notes’.
4.
a. Designating a force or power which imparts motion to something; (without reference to physical motion) impelling, motivating, energizing. Frequently in driving force, driving power.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > [adjective] > impelling or driving
urgent1546
impulsive1604
compulsivea1616
impellent1620
driving1642
enormantic1651
chasing1669
commanding1680
pulsivea1687
impelling1767
the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > that which incites or instigates
prickleOE
pritchOE
alighting1340
brodc1375
bellowsc1386
pricka1387
motivec1390
prompting1402
preparativec1450
stirmentc1460
incentive?a1475
fomenta1500
farda1522
instigation1526
pointing1533
swinge1548
spur1551
whetstone1551
goad1567
promptitude1578
alarm1587
inducement1593
solicitor1594
incitement1596
inflammation1597
instance1597
excitement1604
moving spirit1604
heart-blood1606
inflamer1609
rouser1611
stimulator1614
motioner1616
incensivea1618
incitative1620
incitation1622
whettera1625
impulsivea1628
excitation1628
incendiary1628
dispositive1629
fomentationa1631
switch1630
stirrer1632
irritament1634
provocative1638
impetus1641
driving force1642
driving power1642
engagement1642
firer1653
propellant1654
fomentary1657
impulse1660
urgency1664
impeller1686
fillip1699
shove1724
incitive1736
stimulative1747
bonus1787
stimulus1791
impellent1793
stimulant1794
propulsion1800
instigant1833
propulsive1834
motive power1836
evoker1845
motivity1857
afflatus1865
flip1881
urge1882
agent provocateur1888
will to power1896
a shot in the arm1922
motivator1929
driver1971
co-driver1993
1642 Earnest Exhort. to True Ninivitish Repentance 5 All this is a fiery Zeal or Heat (yet altogether without the moving or driving Power of God to it).
1714 in T. Creech tr. Lucretius Of Nature of Things (new ed.) I. ii. 111/2 Plants and Trees rise upward likewise, by reason of the driving Force from beneath.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xv. 261 The ability of its journals is the driving force.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 948/2 The great weight of this wheel is..to carry the machine over the one half of its period in which the driving-power is absent.
1895 Church Q. Rev. Oct. 156 Doubt as the driving energy of active inquiry.
1967 E. U. Condon & H. Odishaw Handbk. Physics (ed. 2) ii. iii. 23 For a given magnitude of driving force, resonance in the velocity amplitude occurs at minimum impedance.
1991 SunWorld Dec. 56/1 There seems to be a driving need to define multimedia, standardize it, and package it as a single killer application.
2008 Caribbean Rev. Bks. Nov. 40/2 He was..tough and serious, but he was also saddled with a driving ambition and a cartload of musical talent.
2020 Times (Nexis) 31 Jan. 44 The South African-born tycoon, 48, has been the driving force behind the company ever since.
b. Designating a person who drives himself, herself, or another to work hard; energetic, driven. Cf. drive n. 16.
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the mind > will > motivation > [adjective] > motivated
motived1780
driven1797
driving1835
motivated1922
the mind > will > motivation > [adjective] > inciting or instigating > of a person or group
driving1835
ginger1916
1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West II. xxxii. 92 They become thorough, driving planters.
1882 A. C. Dayton Last Days Knickerbocker Life in N.Y. iv. 39 Aunt Margaret was a driving woman... Brusque and bustling, she was never known to rest, and rumor says she gave but little to her hard-worked employees.
2008 E. Mordden Ziegfeld viii. 133 The two discussed how much more a really driving manager might make of her.
c. With reference to music: energetic, dynamic, forceful.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective]
sprindeOE
livelyOE
kaskc1300
wightc1300
courageousc1386
wighty14..
wieldya1413
ablec1440
tall of hand1530
sappy1558
energical1565
energetical1585
greenya1586
stout1600
strenuous1602
forceful?1624
actuous1626
vigorous1638
vivid1638
high-spirited1653
hearty1665
actuose1677
living1699
full-blooded1707
executive1708
rugged1731
sousing1735
energic1740
bouncing1743
two-fisted1774
energetic1782
zestful1797
rollicking1801
through-ganging1814
throughgoing1814
slashing1828
high-powered1829
high pressure1834
rip-roaring1834
red-blooded1836
ripsnorting1846
zesty1853
dynamic1856
throbbing1864
goey1875
torpedoic1893
kinky1903
zippy1903
go-at-it1904
punchy1907
up-and-at-'em1909
driving1916
vibranta1929
kinetic1931
zinging1931
high-octane1936
zingy1938
slam-bang1939
balls-to-the-wall1967
balls-out1968
ass-kicking1977
hi-octane1977
1916 Daily Mail (Hull) 6 Oct. (Late City ed.) 6/2 The peculiar driving rhythm produced by the trill on the second beat certainly creates a cadential effect which supports this view.
1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. xix. 235 Lester is also a summary example of driving, vigorous tenor saxophone.
1999 Time Out N.Y. 25 Feb. 112/2 One..is a mix of driving, folky rock and haunting acoustic pop.
2011 Oxfordshire Music Scene Dec. 25/1 The opening track is perhaps the band's most immediate song yet, starting with a driving bassline.
Derivatives
ˈdrivingly adv. in a driving or forceful manner.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > [adverb]
dynamically1832
drivingly1842
impulsively1879
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adverb] > with vigour or intensity of operation or effect
swithlyc888
mightilyeOE
strongeOE
fastlyOE
stronglyOE
smartlyc1225
smartc1300
mightlya1393
freshlyc1425
almightily1609
feckfullya1614
shrewly1707
vivaciouslya1711
keenly1837
drivingly1842
drastically1850
incisively1871
1842 M. R. Mitford Let. 1 Dec. in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) 163 It rained drivingly.
1999 BBC Music Mag. Apr. 93/4 We get the whole overture, drivingly conducted by John Owen Edwards.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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