driver
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vər 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.
a.
a part that transmits force or motion.
b.
the member of a pair of connected pulleys, gears, etc., that is nearer to the power source.
6.
Computers. software or hardware that controls the interface between a computer and a peripheral device.
7.
8.
British. a locomotive engineer.
9.
Audio.
a.
the part of a loudspeaker that transforms the electrical signal into sound.
b.
the entire loudspeaker.
10.
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Driver
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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World English Dictionary
driver (ˈdraɪvə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a person who drives a vehicle |
| 2. | in the driver's seat in a position of control |
| 3. | a person who drives animals |
| 4. | a mechanical component that exerts a force on another to produce motion |
| 5. | golf a club, a No. 1 wood, with a large head and deep face for tee shots |
| 6. | electronics a circuit whose output provides the input of another circuit |
| 7. | computing a computer program that controls a device |
| 8. | something that creates and fuels activity, or gives force or impetus |
| 'driverless | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
driver
"one who drives" in various senses, c.1400; from drive. Slavery sense is attested by 1796. Driver's seat is attested by 1867; figurative use by 1954.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary
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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Computing Dictionary
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American Heritage
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Example sentences
Driver and vehicle information, consumer protection, elections department.
The vehicle had been there for two days, as its driver was staying at the hotel.
Its driver takes off running, abandoning a huge load of marijuana.
En route to the game, he explained lacrosse to the cab driver.
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