DRIVER
driver, number one wood
(noun) a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee
driver, device driver
(noun) (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device
driver
(noun) the operator of a motor vehicle
driver
(noun) a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver
driver
(noun) someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Driver
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Driver is the 2,361st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 15,442 individuals. Driver is most common among White (71.73%) and Black (21.15%) individuals.
Etymology
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.
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.
A screwdriver.
Source: Wiktionary
Driv"er, n. Etym: [From Drive.]
1. One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
2. The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.
3. An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
4. (Mach.)
Definition: 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: (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.)
Definition: The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. Totten. Driver ant (Zoöl.), 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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