Definitions for driver
ˈdraɪ vərdriv·er

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. driver(noun)

   the operator of a motor vehicle

2. driver(noun)

   someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle

3. driver(noun)

   a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver

4. driver, device driver(noun)

   (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device

5. driver, number one wood(noun)

   a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee

GCIDE(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Driver(n.)

   The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a any vehicle.

   Etymology: [From Drive.]

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. driver(Noun)

   One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.

2. driver(Noun)

   Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.

3. driver(Noun)

   A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.

4. driver(Noun)

   A person who drives some other vehicle.

5. driver(Noun)

   a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.

6. driver(Noun)

   A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.

7. driver(Noun)

   a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Driver(noun)

   one who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward

   Etymology: [From Drive.]

2. Driver(noun)

   the person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive

   Etymology: [From Drive.]

3. Driver(noun)

   an overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work

   Etymology: [From Drive.]

4. Driver(noun)

   a part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:

   Etymology: [From Drive.]

5. Driver(noun)

   the driving wheel of a locomotive

   Etymology: [From Drive.]

6. Driver(noun)

   an attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier

   Etymology: [From Drive.]

7. Driver(noun)

   a crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone

   Etymology: [From Drive.]

8. Driver(noun)

   the after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker

   Etymology: [From Drive.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Driver

   Driver is a series of mission-based action-adventure video games developed by Reflections Interactive, and originally published by GT Interactive and later by Atari. The gameplay consists of a mixture of action-adventure and driving in open world environments. Since the series began in 1999, there have been five main installments released. As of August 2011, the series has sold more than 16 million units worldwide.

The New Hacker's Dictionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. driver

   1. The main loop of an event-processing program; the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution. 2. [techspeak] In device driver, code designed to handle a particular peripheral device such as a magnetic disk or tape unit. 3. In the TeX world and the computerized typesetting world in general, a program that translates some device-independent or other common format to something a real device can actually understand.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. driver

   A large sail formerly used with the wind aft or quartering. It was a square sail cut like a studding-sail, and set with a great yard on the end of the spanker-boom, across the taffrail. The name latterly has been officially applied to the spanker, both being the aftermost sails of a ship, the ring-tail being only an addition, as a studding or steering sail. (See STEERING-SAIL.) Also, the foremost spur in the bilge-ways, the heel of which is fayed to the fore-side of the foremost poppet, and the sides of it look fore and aft. Also, a sort of fishing-boat.

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1. driver

   A person with the ability, experience, skills, knowledge, relevant instruction, qualification and license to drive a vehicle.

   The train driver was very efficient and skilled.

   Submitted by MaryC on March 30, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'driver' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1976

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'driver' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1892

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'driver' in Nouns Frequency: #595

How to pronounce driver?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say driver in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of driver in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of driver in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of driver in a Sentence

1. Highway Patrol Lt. Troy Hischer:

   We believe it was driver error at this point -- he became complacent, or something else was going on.

2. American Chris Kirk:

   I was really happy with the way I played today. I definitely hit my driver a lot better than I have the last couple days, and then the rest of my game was still pretty sharp.

3. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan:

   The Purple Line is a long-term investment that will be an important economic driver for our state.

4. Mike Rushford:

   Now they're out hurting people, we let them out when they steal a car, and now they steal a car and they kill the driver.

5. Chief Executive Herna Verhagen:

   This growth is the main driver for the improved performance, we expect Parcels to continue its growth and strengthen its market position.

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