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Webster 1913 Edition


Driver

Driv′er

,
Noun.
[From
Drive
.]
1.
One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
3.
An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
(a)
The driving wheel of a locomotive.
(b)
An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.
(c)
A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
5.
(Naut.)
The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
Totten.
Driver ant
(Zool.)
,
a species of African stinging ant; one of the visiting ants (
Anomma arcens
); – so called because they move about in vast armies, and drive away or devour all insects and other small animals.

Webster 1828 Edition


Driver

DRIVER

,
Noun.
1.
One who drives; the person or thing that urges or compels any thing else to move.
2.
The person who drives beasts.
3.
The person who drives a carriage; one who conducts a team.
4.
A large sail occasionally set on the mizenyard or gaff, the foot being extended over the stern by a boom.

Definition 2024


Driver

Driver

See also: driver

English

Proper noun

Driver

  1. A surname.

driver

driver

See also: Driver

English

Noun

driver (plural drivers)

  1. One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
  2. Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
    • 2014, Bridgette Wessels, Exploring Social Change: Process and Context (page 106)
      The character of work is a driver of social change, at the same time that any new forms of work are the result of broader social change.
  3. A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
  4. A person who drives some other vehicle.
  5. (computing) A program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
  6. (golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
  7. (nautical) a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
  8. A mallet.
  9. A tamping iron.
  10. A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.

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French

Etymology 1

Borrowing from English driver.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /draj.vœʁ/

Noun

driver m (plural drivers)

  1. (golf) driver

Etymology 2

English drive + -er

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /draj.ve/

Verb

driver

  1. (golf) to drive
Conjugation

Anagrams


Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English driver.

Noun

driver m, f (invariable)

  1. driver (in a trotting race; tennis player good at driving)

driver m (invariable)

  1. driver (golf club; computer module)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

driver

  1. present tense of drive

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from English driver.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈdɾaj.veʁ/

Noun

driver m (plural drivers)

  1. (computing) driver (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:driver.

Synonyms


Swedish

Verb

driver

  1. present tense of driva.