DRIVER
\dɹˈa͡ɪvə], \dɹˈaɪvə], \d_ɹ_ˈaɪ_v_ə]\
Definitions of DRIVER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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(computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device
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the operator of a motor vehicle
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a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver
By Princeton University
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(computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device
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the operator of a motor vehicle
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a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
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The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.
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An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
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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:
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The driving wheel of a locomotive.
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A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
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The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
By Oddity Software
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One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
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The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.
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An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
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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:
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The driving wheel of a locomotive.
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A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
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The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
By Noah Webster.
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One who forces something into motion; one who directs the motions of persons or things, as a chauffeur, a coachman, an overseer, etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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One who drives; he who drives a carriage; one who conducts a team; a large sail occasionally set on the mizen-yard or gaff, the foot being extended over the stern by a boom; that which communicates motion to something else, as a wheel; a substance interposed between the driving instrument and the thing driven, as that used by a cooper in driving hoops; a piece of wood attached to a spindle, and situated in a box which impels the shuttle through the opening in the warp.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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One who, or that which; driving-wheel or driver, the wheel in a machine which communicates motion; to drive away, to scatter; to force to a distance; to drive off, to force to remove to a distance; to depart, as in a carriage; to drive out, to expel; to drive a bargain, to haggle about the terms; to drive a trade, to carry on a trade.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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