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Webster 1913 Edition
Driver
1.
One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
3.
An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
(a)
The driving wheel of a locomotive.
(b)
An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.
(c)
A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
5.
(Naut.)
The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
Totten.
Driver ant
(Zool.)
, a species of African stinging ant; one of the visiting ants (
Anomma arcens
); – so called because they move about in vast armies, and drive away or devour all insects and other small animals.Webster 1828 Edition
Driver
DRIVER
,Noun.
1.
One who drives; the person or thing that urges or compels any thing else to move.2.
The person who drives beasts.3.
The person who drives a carriage; one who conducts a team.4.
A large sail occasionally set on the mizenyard or gaff, the foot being extended over the stern by a boom.Definition 2024
Driver
driver
driver
See also: Driver
English
Noun
driver (plural drivers)
- One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
- Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
- 2014, Bridgette Wessels, Exploring Social Change: Process and Context (page 106)
- The character of work is a driver of social change, at the same time that any new forms of work are the result of broader social change.
- 2014, Bridgette Wessels, Exploring Social Change: Process and Context (page 106)
- 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.
Derived terms
Terms derived from driver
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Translations
one who drives something
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something that drives something
person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus
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person who drives some other vehicle
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program acting as interface between an application and hardware
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French
Etymology 1
Borrowing from English driver.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /draj.vœʁ/
Noun
driver m (plural drivers)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /draj.ve/
Verb
driver
Conjugation
Conjugation of driver (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | driver | avoir drivé | |||||
| gerund | en drivant | en ayant drivé | |||||
| present participle | drivant /dʁaj.vɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | drivé /dʁaj.ve/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | drive /dʁajv/ |
drives /dʁajv/ |
drive /dʁajv/ |
drivons /dʁaj.vɔ̃/ |
drivez /dʁaj.ve/ |
drivent /dʁajv/ |
| imperfect | drivais /dʁaj.vɛ/ |
drivais /dʁaj.vɛ/ |
drivait /dʁaj.vɛ/ |
drivions /dʁaj.vjɔ̃/ |
driviez /dʁaj.vje/ |
drivaient /dʁaj.vɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | drivai /dʁaj.ve/ |
drivas /dʁaj.va/ |
driva /dʁaj.va/ |
drivâmes /dʁaj.vam/ |
drivâtes /dʁaj.vat/ |
drivèrent /dʁaj.vɛʁ/ |
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| future | driverai /dʁaj.və.ʁe/ |
driveras /dʁaj.və.ʁa/ |
drivera /dʁaj.və.ʁa/ |
driverons /dʁaj.və.ʁɔ̃/ |
driverez /dʁaj.və.ʁe/ |
driveront /dʁaj.və.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | driverais /dʁaj.və.ʁɛ/ |
driverais /dʁaj.və.ʁɛ/ |
driverait /dʁaj.və.ʁɛ/ |
driverions /dʁaj.və.ʁjɔ̃/ |
driveriez /dʁaj.və.ʁje/ |
driveraient /dʁaj.və.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | drive /dʁajv/ |
drives /dʁajv/ |
drive /dʁajv/ |
drivions /dʁaj.vjɔ̃/ |
driviez /dʁaj.vje/ |
drivent /dʁajv/ |
| imperfect1 |
drivasse /dʁaj.vas/ |
drivasses /dʁaj.vas/ |
drivât /dʁaj.va/ |
drivassions /dʁaj.va.sjɔ̃/ |
drivassiez /dʁaj.va.sje/ |
drivassent /dʁaj.vas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | drive /dʁajv/ |
— | drivons /dʁaj.vɔ̃/ |
drivez /dʁaj.ve/ |
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Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
Borrowing from English driver.
Noun
driver m, f (invariable)
- driver (in a trotting race; tennis player good at driving)
driver m (invariable)
- driver (golf club; computer module)