Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that drives, as the operator of a motor vehicle.
- noun A tool, such as a screwdriver or hammer, that is used for imparting forceful pressure on another object.
- noun A machine part that transmits motion or power to another part.
- noun A piece of software that enables a computer to communicate with a specific hardware device.
- noun A golf club with a wide head and a long shaft, used for making long shots from the tee.
- noun Nautical A jib-headed spanker.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which drives.
- noun One who drives draft-animals attached to a vehicle.
- noun Formerly, in the southern United States, specifically, the overseer of a gang of slaves.
- noun By extension, a locomotive-engineer.
- noun A subordinate official formerly employed in driving for rent in Ireland. See drive, v. i., 8.
- noun One who drives game to a hunter; in deer-hunting, one who puts the hounds on the track of the game.
- noun One who sets something before him as an aim or object; an aimer.
- noun One who drives logs down a stream.
- noun An energetic, pushing person.
- noun In the menhaden-fishery, one who drives the fish into the net by throwing stones at them from a light rowboat, a pile of stones being carried for the purpose.
- noun Naut.: A large sail, like a studdingsail, formerly set abaft the mizzenmast where the spanker is now set; hence, the spanker. See cut under
sail . - noun The foremost spur in the bulgeways.
- noun In mach.: A driving-wheel.
- noun The tread-wheel of a harvester.
- noun A tamping-iron, used to tamp the powder in a blast-hole.
- noun A curved piece of metal fixed to the center-chuck of a lathe.
- noun The cross-bar on the spindle of a grinding-mill.
- noun Same as
drift , n., 11. - noun A substance interposed between the driving instrument and the thing driven. A cooper drives hoops by striking upon the driver.
- noun In weaving, a piece of wood or other material, upon a spindle, and placed in a box, which impels the shuttle through the opening in the warp.
- noun A bird, the dowitcher.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
- noun The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a any vehicle.
- noun An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
- noun (Mach.) 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
- noun The driving wheel of a locomotive.
- noun An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.
- noun A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
- noun (Naut.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
- noun An implement used for driving
- noun A mallet.
- noun A tamping iron.
- noun A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
- noun A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for playing the longest strokes.
- noun (Zoöl.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to
drive . - noun Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
- noun A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
- noun A person who drives some other vehicle.
- noun computing a
program that acts as aninterface between anapplication andhardware , written specifically for thedevice it controls. - noun golf A
golf club used to drive the ball a great distance. - noun nautical a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft
spanker on asquare-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the samespars .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device
Etymologies
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Examples
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"I was not _with_ the driver, I _was the driver_ and I had the honor of receiving five francs from my distinguished associate."
Through the Wall Cleveland Moffett 1894
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The Sprinter is also available in an extended chassis version which takes 21 passengers (20+ driver) and panel van (goods space + driver+ two passenger seats, is not new to the global market, having been doing well in many countries where it is used for varied purposes.
unknown title 2009
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While Maryland requires anyone with a placard to carry a copy of their medical certification and Virginia issues a special ID card with each placard, police and parking enforcement officers generally don't have access to records that would let them check if a driver is approved for parking privileges.
Misuse of handicapped parking placards is widespread Annys Shin 2010
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In my opinion they are no more a hunter then a driver is a drunk driver.
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No amount of eye rolling or shoulder shrugging can change their minds, and so whiplash collar firmly around her neck, and safely secured to a stretcher, the driver is airlifted from the highway to the hospital -- across the street from the accident site.
Christine Negroni: The Not-So-Hilarious World of Helicopter EMS Christine Negroni 2010
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While Maryland requires anyone with a placard to carry a copy of their medical certification and Virginia issues a special ID card with each placard, police and parking enforcement officers generally don't have access to records that would let them check if a driver is approved for parking privileges.
Misuse of handicapped parking placards is widespread Annys Shin 2010
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This driver is the choice of golf Legend Gary Player.
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In my opinion they are no more a hunter then a driver is a drunk driver.
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… By the way, any more than 4 bumper-stickers on the rear of a car, van or truck, and the driver is a tad nuts! datingjesus
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While Maryland requires anyone with a placard to carry a copy of their medical certification and Virginia issues a special ID card with each placard, police and parking enforcement officers generally don't have access to records that would let them check if a driver is approved for parking privileges.
Misuse of handicapped parking placards is widespread Annys Shin 2010
bilby commented on the word driver
"Fangio, my driver, hammered the Mercedes limo down the narrow road that winds along the Amalfi Coast. In hindsight, hiring a driver in a country where there are only two speeds - fast and Jesus-are-you-f---ing-nuts! - was always going to be a risky proposition."
- Stephen Lacey, Lost for words in lingo limbo, theage.com.au, 28 June 2009.
July 2, 2009