driver

Signification

1. One who drives something, in any sense of the verb drive.
2. Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb drive.
3. A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
4. A person who drives some other vehicle.
5. (slang) A pilot (person who flies aircraft).
6. A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
7. A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
8. a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
9. A factor contributing to something; a cause.
10. A mallet.
11. A tamping iron.
12. A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
13. A screwdriver.
14. A device that converts an electrical signal to sound waves; the principal component of loudspeakers and headphones.
15. A driving wheel.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈdɹaɪ.və(ɹ)/

Étymologie

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”).

Phrases

The two collided , putting the Benetton driver out .

Les deux sont entrés en collision, mettant le conducteur de Benetton.