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drivings

drivings is the plural of driving.

Meaning of driving

Noun

driving (countable and uncountable, plural drivings)

  1. The action of the verb to drive in any sense.
    • […] with all its drivings of cattle and all its tithe battles, and all the killings and maimings consequent upon those battles, […]1825, Cobbett's Political Register, volume 54, page 789
  2. In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.
    • There had been the whisky and Perrier in the morning but, in my ignorance of alcoholics then, I could not imagine one whisky harming anyone who was driving in an open car in the rain.1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 156
  3. The act of driving the ball; hitting the ball a long distance, especially from the tee to the putting green.
    • Heigh-ho! Sing heigh-ho! my Golf is most shocking; My driving is topping, my caddie's still mocking.1899, L.P., “Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind”, in Golf Illustrated, volume 2, page 233

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Questions about drivings

What is drivings the plural of?
Drivings is the plural of driving.

Words near drivings in the dictionary

  1. driving wind
  2. driving winds
  3. driving-wheel
  4. driving-wheels
  5. drivingly
  6. drivings
  7. driz
  8. drizzlable
  9. drizzle
  10. drizzle-drozzle
  11. drizzle-drozzles

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