Definitions for driver
ˈdraɪ vərdriv·er

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

1. drivernoun

   the operator of a motor vehicle

2. drivernoun

   someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle

3. drivernoun

   a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver

4. driver, device drivernoun

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

5. driver, number one woodnoun

   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. Drivernoun

   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. drivernoun

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

2. drivernoun

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

3. drivernoun

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

4. drivernoun

   A person who drives some other vehicle.

5. drivernoun

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

6. drivernoun

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

7. drivernoun

   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. Drivernoun

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

   Etymology: [From Drive.]

2. Drivernoun

   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. Drivernoun

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

   Etymology: [From Drive.]

4. Drivernoun

   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. Drivernoun

   the driving wheel of a locomotive

   Etymology: [From Drive.]

6. Drivernoun

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

   Etymology: [From Drive.]

7. Drivernoun

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

   Etymology: [From Drive.]

8. Drivernoun

   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.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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  

Matched Categories

1. • Golfer
   • Operator
   • Worker

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?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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. Craig Erlam:

   Oil prices really are a big market driver at the moment, whether it be for good for consumer spending or bad for energy companies.

2. Prosecutor Janice Bledsoe:

   Officer Goodson, as the driver of the van that Freddie Gray was in, neither ensured his safety nor his well-being.

3. Michihiko Iwamoto:

   I love it, when I sit in the driver's seat and hold the steering wheel, I feel transported back to my youth.

4. Karson Vega:

   [The bus driver] wouldn’t take his feet off so I kicked them over a little.

5. Lloyd Austin:

   The Department will immediately take appropriate policy actions to prioritize climate change considerations in our activities and risk assessments, to mitigate this driver of insecurity, as a leader in the interagency, the Department of Defense will also support incorporating climate risk analysis into modeling, simulation, war gaming, analysis, and the next National Defense Strategy.

Images & Illustrations of driver

Popularity rank by frequency of use