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driv⋅er
[drahy-ver] 
–noun
| 1. | a person or thing that drives. |
| 2. | a person who drives a vehicle; coachman, chauffeur, etc. |
| 3. | a person who drives an animal or animals, as a drover or cowboy. |
| 4. | Also called number one wood. Golf. a club with a wooden head whose face has almost no slope, for hitting long, low drives from the tee. |
| 5. | Machinery.
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| 6. | Computers. software or hardware that controls the interface between a computer and a peripheral device. |
| 7. | Railroads. driving wheel (def. 2). |
| 8. | British. a locomotive engineer. |
| 9. | Audio.
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| 10. | Nautical.
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drive
[drahyv] verb, drove or (Archaic
) drave, driv⋅en, driv⋅ing, noun, adjective –verb (used with object)
| 1. | to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation. |
| 2. | to cause and guide the movement of (a vehicle, an animal, etc.): to drive a car; to drive a mule. |
| 3. | to convey in a vehicle: She drove them to the station. |
| 4. | to force to work or act: He drove the workers until they collapsed. |
| 5. | to impel; constrain; urge; compel. |
| 6. | to carry (business, an agreement, etc.) vigorously through: He drove a hard bargain. |
| 7. | to keep (machinery) going. |
| 8. | Baseball.
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| 9. | Golf. to hit (a golf ball), esp. from the tee, as with a driver or driving iron: She drove the ball within ten feet of the pin. |
| 10. | Sports.
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| 11. | Hunting.
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| 12. | to float (logs) down a river or stream. |
| 13. | (in mining, construction, etc.) to excavate (a mine or tunnel heading). |
–verb (used without object)
| 14. | to cause and guide the movement of a vehicle or animal, esp. to operate an automobile. |
| 15. | to go or travel in a driven vehicle: He drives to work with me. |
| 16. | Golf. to hit a golf ball, esp. from the tee, as with a driver or driving iron: He drove long and straight throughout the match. |
| 17. | to strive vigorously toward a goal or objective; to work, play, or try wholeheartedly and with determination. |
| 18. | to go along before an impelling force; be impelled: The ship drove before the wind. |
| 19. | to rush or dash violently. |
–noun
| 20. | the act of driving. |
| 21. | a trip in a vehicle, esp. a short pleasure trip: a Sunday drive in the country. |
| 22. | an impelling along, as of game, cattle, or floating logs, in a particular direction. |
| 23. | the animals, logs, etc., thus driven. |
| 24. | Psychology. an inner urge that stimulates activity or inhibition; a basic or instinctive need: the hunger drive; sex drive. |
| 25. | a vigorous onset or onward course toward a goal or objective: the drive toward the goal line. |
| 26. | a strong military offensive. |
| 27. | a united effort to accomplish some specific purpose, esp. to raise money, as for a charity. |
| 28. | energy and initiative: a person with great drive. |
| 29. | vigorous pressure or effort, as in business. |
| 30. | a road for vehicles, esp. a scenic one, as in or along a park, or a short one, as an approach to a house. |
| 31. | Machinery. a driving mechanism, as of an automobile: gear drive; chain drive. |
| 32. | Automotive. the point or points of power application to the roadway: front-wheel drive; four-wheel drive. |
| 33. | Sports.
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| 34. | Golf. a shot, esp. with a driver or driving iron from the tee, that is intended to carry a great distance. |
| 35. | a hunt in which game is driven toward stationary hunters. |
| 36. | Electronics. excitation (def. 5). |
–adjective
—Verb phrase| 37. | noting or pertaining to a part of a machine or vehicle used for its propulsion. |
| 38. | drive at, to attempt or intend to convey; allude to; suggest: What are you driving at? |
| 39. | let drive, to aim a blow or missile at; attack: He let drive at his pursuers. |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME drīven, OE drīfan; c. D drijven, ON drīfa, Goth dreiban, G treiben
bef. 900; ME drīven, OE drīfan; c. D drijven, ON drīfa, Goth dreiban, G treiben
Related forms:
driv⋅a⋅ble, drive⋅a⋅ble, adjective
Synonyms:
1. push, force. 2, 15. Drive, ride are used interchangeably to mean traveling in an automobile or, formerly, in a horse-drawn vehicle. These two words are not synonyms in other connections. To drive is to maneuver, guide, or steer the progress of a vehicle, animal, etc.: to drive a bus, a horse. To ride is to be carried about by an animal or be carried as a passenger in a vehicle: to ride a horse, a train, a bus. 28. push; ambition, motivation.
1. push, force. 2, 15. Drive, ride are used interchangeably to mean traveling in an automobile or, formerly, in a horse-drawn vehicle. These two words are not synonyms in other connections. To drive is to maneuver, guide, or steer the progress of a vehicle, animal, etc.: to drive a bus, a horse. To ride is to be carried about by an animal or be carried as a passenger in a vehicle: to ride a horse, a train, a bus. 28. push; ambition, motivation.
driving wheel
–noun
| 1. | Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others. |
| 2. | Also called driver. Railroads. one of the wheels of a locomotive that transmits the power of an engine or motor into tractive effort. |
Origin:
1830–40
1830–40
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Driver
Driv"er\, n. [From Drive.]1. One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward. 2. The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive. 3. An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work. 4. (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: (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 (Zo["o]l.), 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.
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Language Translation for : driver
Spanish:
conductor,
German:
der Fahrer,
Japanese:
運転手
driver
n.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.
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driver
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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