driver

Meaning

One who drives something, in any sense of the verb drive.
Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb drive.
A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
A person who drives some other vehicle.
(slang) A pilot (person who flies aircraft).
A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
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 factor contributing to something; a cause.
A mallet.
A tamping iron.
A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
A screwdriver.
A device that converts an electrical signal to sound waves; the principal component of loudspeakers and headphones.
A driving wheel.

chauffeur

coachman

number one wood

software driver

train driver

train engineer

speedster

turn-screw

licensed operator

transmission case

drive housing

drive stage

driving stage

bandyman

direc 1t tor

compound box

motion-work wheel

car driver

carman

drive pulley

driving mechanism

gear box

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdɹaɪ.və(ɹ)/

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”).