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.

driver

chauffeur

coachman

motorist

charioteer

conductor

carter

operator

pilot

device driver

cabman

wagoner

guide

teamster

motorman

rider

number one wood

engineer

exciter

drive

carrier

software driver

mizenmast

carman

taxi driver

train driver

train engineer

postilion

cabdriver

licensed operator

muleteer

speeder

speedster

drover

guider

spanker

whacker

bandyman

direc 1t tor

manager

clew

guidebook

compound box

drive housing

gear box

transmission case

drive pulley

driving wheel

motion-work wheel

activator

stimulator

drive stage

corkscrew

screwdriver

turn-screw

driving mechanism

driving stage

steerer

car driver

skinner

common carrier

conveyer

conveyor

haulier

controller

jig

jockey

fomenter

initiator

instigator

japer

cabby

runner

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”).