Definition of DRIVER

driver

Meanings

Plural: drivers

Noun

  • the operator of a motor vehicle
  • someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle
  • a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver
  • (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device
  • a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee
  • One who drives something.
  • A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car, truck, bus, train, forklift, etc.
  • One who drives something.
  • A pilot (person who flies aircraft).
  • One who drives something.
  • A person who drives livestock: a drover.
  • One who drives something.
  • Something that drives something else.
  • A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
  • Something that drives something else.
  • A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
  • Something that drives something else.
  • A kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
  • Something that drives something else.
  • A factor contributing to something; a cause.
  • Something that drives something else.
  • Any driving element in any mechanism, which drives the driven element.
  • Something that drives something else.
  • A mallet.
  • Something that drives something else.
  • A tamping iron.
  • Something that drives something else.
  • A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
  • Something that drives something else.
  • A screwdriver, a nutdriver, or a bit for such a tool; such bits include nutsetters.
  • Something that drives something else.
  • A device that converts an electrical signal to sound waves; the principal component of loudspeakers and headphones.
  • Something that drives something else.
  • A driving wheel of a locomotive.
  • Something that drives something else.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English drivere, dryvere, dryvare, equivalent to drive + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Drieuwer (“driver”), Dutch drijver (“driver”), German Low German Driever (“driver”), German Treiber (“driver”), Swedish drivare (“driver”).

Synonyms

device driver, number one wood

Antonyms

follower, nondriver

Scrabble Score: 10

driver is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
driver is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
driver is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

driver is a valid Words With Friends word