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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Coffee Trivia

Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.

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