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Functioning and Driving

functioning

noun

  • Process or manner of functioning or operating.
    • usage: "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"

verb

  • Perform as expected when applied.
    • usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
  • Serve a purpose, role, or function.
    • usage: "The tree stump serves as a table"; "The female students served as a control group"; "This table would serve very well"; "His freedom served him well"; "The table functions as a desk"
  • Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function.
    • usage: "His wife officiated as his private secretary"

adjective

  • Performing or able to perform its regular function.
    • usage: "a functioning flashlight"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
driving

noun

  • Hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver.
    • usage: "he sliced his drive out of bounds"
  • The act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal.

verb

  • Operate or control a vehicle.
    • usage: "drive a car or bus"; "Can you drive this four-wheel truck"
  • Travel or be transported in a vehicle.
    • usage: "We drove to the university every morning"; "They motored to London for the theater"
  • Cause someone or something to move by driving.
    • usage: "She drove me to school every day"; "We drove the car to the garage"
  • Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically.
    • usage: "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"
  • To compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly.
    • usage: "She is driven by her passion"
  • Cause to move back by force or influence.
    • usage: "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders"
  • Compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment.
    • usage: "She finally drove him to change jobs"
  • Push, propel, or press with force.
    • usage: "Drive a nail into the wall"
  • Cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force.
    • usage: "drive the ball far out into the field"
  • Strive and make an effort to reach a goal.
    • usage: "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"
  • Move into a desired direction of discourse.
    • usage: "What are you driving at"
  • Have certain properties when driven.
    • usage: "This car rides smoothly"; "My new truck drives well"
  • Work as a driver.
    • usage: "He drives a bread truck"; "She drives for the taxi company in Newark"
  • Move by being propelled by a force.
    • usage: "The car drove around the corner"
  • Urge forward.
    • usage: "drive the cows into the barn"
  • Proceed along in a vehicle.
    • usage: "We drive the turnpike to work"
  • Strike with a driver, as in teeing off.
    • usage: "drive a golf ball"
  • Hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally.
    • usage: "drive a ball"
  • Excavate horizontally.
    • usage: "drive a tunnel"
  • Cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling.
    • usage: "The amplifier drives the tube"; "steam drives the engines"; "this device drives the disks for the computer"
  • Hunting: search for game.
    • usage: "drive the forest"
  • Hunting: chase from cover into more open ground.
    • usage: "drive the game"

adjective

  • Having the power of driving or impelling.
    • usage: "a driving personal ambition"; "the driving force was his innate enthusiasm"; "an impulsive force"
  • Acting with vigor.
    • usage: "responsibility turned the spoiled playboy into a driving young executive"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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