Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), v. t. [imp. {Drove} (dr[=o]v),
   formerly {Drave} (dr[=a]v); p. p. {Driven} (dr[i^]v'n); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Driving}.] [AS. dr[=i]fan; akin to OS.
   dr[=i]ban, D. drijven, OHG. tr[=i]ban, G. treiben, Icel.
   dr[=i]fa, Goth. dreiban. Cf. {Drift}, {Drove}.]
   1. To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from
      one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to
      move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to
      drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.

            A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. --Jowett
                                                  (Thucyd. ).

            Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along.
                                                  --Pope.

            Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. --Pope.

   2. To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which
      draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also,
      to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by
      beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive
      a person to his own door.

            How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother!
                                                  --Thackeray.

   3. To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain;
      to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive
      a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of
      circumstances, by argument, and the like. `` Enough to
      drive one mad.'' --Tennyson.

            He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do
            the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had
            done for his.                         --Sir P.
                                                  Sidney.

   4. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
      [Now used only colloquially.] --Bacon.

            The trade of life can not be driven without
            partners.                             --Collier.

   5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained.

            To drive the country, force the swains away.
                                                  --Dryden.

   6. (Mining) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery
      or tunnel. --Tomlinson.

   7. To pass away; -- said of time. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

   Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent
         action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body
         is to move it by applying a force behind; to lead is to
         cause to move by applying the force before, or in
         front. It takes a variety of meanings, according to the
         objects by which it is followed; as, to drive an
         engine, to direct and regulate its motions; to drive
         logs, to keep them in the current of a river and direct
         them in their course; to drive feathers or down, to
         place them in a machine, which, by a current of air,
         drives off the lightest to one end, and collects them
         by themselves. ``My thrice-driven bed of down.''
         --Shak.

Driving \Driv"ing\, a.
   1. Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or
      storm.

   2. Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft.

   {Driving axle}, the axle of a driving wheel, as in a
      locomotive.

   {Driving box} (Locomotive), the journal box of a driving
      axle. See Illust. of {Locomotive}.

   {Driving note} (Mus.), 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.
      

   {Driving spring}, a spring fixed upon the box of the driving
      axle of a locomotive engine to support the weight and
      deaden shocks. [Eng.] --Weale.

   {Driving wheel} (Mach.), 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}.

Driving \Driv"ing\, n.
   1. The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of
      pressing or moving on furiously.

   2. Tendency; drift. [R.]

Source : WordNet®

driving
     adj 1: having the power of driving or impelling; "a driving
            personal ambition"; "the driving force was his innate
            enthusiasm"; "an impulsive force" [syn: {impulsive}]
     2: acting with vigor; "responsibility turned the spoiled
        playboy into a driving young executive"

driving
     n 1: hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver; "he sliced
          his drive out of bounds" [syn: {drive}]
     2: the act of controlling and steering the movement of a
        vehicle or animal