driver
English
/ˈdɹaɪ.və(ɹ)/, /ˈdɹaɪvɚ/
noun
Definitions
- One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
- Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
- A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
- A person who drives some other vehicle.
- (computing) A program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
- (golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
- (nautical) a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
- A mallet.
- A tamping iron.
- A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
- A screwdriver.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English drivere affix from English drive.
Origin
English
drive
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Orion drive English
- bedrive English
- cab English
- cabdriver English
- codrive English
- codriver English
- drivable English
- drive English
- driveable English
- driveaway English
- drivebolt English
- drivee English
- drivehead English
- driveless English
- drivelike English
- driveline English
- drivepipe English
- driveress English
- driverless English
- driverly English
- driverside English
- driveshaft English
- driveshed English
- drivest English
- driveth English
- drivetime English
- drivetrain English
- driveway English
- driving English
- floppy diskette drive English
- fordrive English
- hyperdrive English
- microdrive English
- misdrive English
- multidrive English
- multidriver English
- nondriver English
- oncodriver English
- outdrive English
- overdrive English
- pile English
- piledrive English
- piledriver English
- redrive English
- screw English
- screwdriver English
- seven-level screwdriver English
- spacedrive English
- stake English
- stake-driver English
- stardrive English
- sterndrive English
- todrive English
- underdrive English
- war-drive English
- wardrive English
- wool English
- wooldriver English
- draivi Finnish
- Drive German
- Sklaventreiber German
- Treiber German
- Viehtreiber German
- treiben German
- driver Italian
- driver French
- driveur French
- драйв Russian
- drive Portuguese
- driver Portuguese
- lo͘-lài-bà Japanese
- スクリュードライバー Japanese
- ドライバー Japanese
- driven Middle English
- drivere Middle English
- drajvo Esperanto
- drajver Serbo-Croatian
- ไดรฟ์ Thai
- drayb Cebuano
- drayber Cebuano
- drebar Malay
- 螺賴把 Chinese
- dereva Swahili
- 드라이브 Korean
- draiva Tok Pisin
- kalaiwa Hawaiian
- drayber Bikol Central
- dhiraivha Shona
- ndereba Kikuyu, Gikuyu
- cab
- pile
- wool
- screw
- drive
- stake
- drivee
- codrive
- driving
- drivest
- driveth
- todrive
- redrive
- bedrive
- outdrive
- drivable
- wardrive
- driveway
- driverly
- fordrive
- misdrive
- codriver
- driveable
- drivetime
- drivepipe
- driveress
- drivebolt
- driveline
- nondriver
- driveaway
- drivehead
- war-drive
- driveless
- stardrive
- overdrive
- driveshed
- drivelike
- cabdriver
- piledrive
- underdrive
- sterndrive
- driverless
- wooldriver
- drivetrain
- spacedrive
- driveshaft
- driverside
- oncodriver
- hyperdrive
- microdrive
- multidrive
- piledriver
- Orion drive
- screwdriver
- multidriver
- stake-driver
- floppy diskette drive
- seven-level screwdriver