driver
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See also: Driver
English
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
Noun
driver (plural drivers)
- One who drives something, in any sense of the verb drive.
- 2016, John Swain, Digging Up The Pitmen, page 164:
- Luke North was working in the North East District when Harry Patterson the pony driver came by. It was 5.45 o'clock. Luke smelt danger in the air. He walked round the pony to speak with Harry […]
- Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb 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.
- 2020 December 16, “Network News: "Robust case" for Fawley branch reopening”, in Rail, page 14:
- The aim is to secure up to £140 million for the combined road and rail improvements, including a new road bridge to replace a level crossing at Totton. A key driver has been the approval of a new housing and employment development called Fawley Waterside, with 1,500 homes planned on the site of a redundant power station on the edge of Southampton Water.
- A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
- The requirement that every moving vehicle or combination of vehicles shall have a driver is deemed to be satisfied while the vehicle is using an automated driving system which complies with domestic technical regulations, and any applicable international legal instrument, […] and domestic legislation governing operation.
- 2024 December 25, Elaine S. Povich, “Self-driving cars aren’t here yet, but states are getting the rules ready”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- Earlier this month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began an investigation into four crashes of Teslas operating with a partial-automation system (which can navigate highways and steer the car on city streets but requires a licensed driver to be present), including one in which a pedestrian was killed. In a news release, NHTSA said reduced visibility may have led to the crashes.
- A person who drives some other vehicle.
- (aviation, slang) A pilot (person who flies aircraft).
- (computing) A device driver; 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.
- 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:
- The brassey much resembled the driver, but the iron opened out quite a new field of practice; […]
- (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 factor contributing to something; a cause.
- A mallet.
- A tamping iron.
- A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
- A screwdriver.
- 1996, Popular Mechanics, volume 173, number 12:
- Among the driver and screw types available, you'll find several cross-slot varieties including the Reed & Prince […]
- (audio) A device that converts an electrical signal to sound waves; the principal component of loudspeakers and headphones.
- (chiefly in the plural) A driving wheel.
- 1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, in Railway Magazine, page 353:
- With a toot on her chime whistle, No. 6 set her 3 ft. 9 in. drivers turning and we were off round the curve through Pennyburn works.
Derived terms
- back-seat driver
- blip driver
- bus driver
- cab driver
- cabdriver
- camel driver
- cattle driver
- chauffeur driver
- coach driver
- codriver
- combine driver
- crane driver
- daily driver
- Death Valley driver
- designated driver
- device driver
- drink-driver
- drink driver
- driver ant
- driver-ant
- driver-boom
- driveress
- driver fatigue
- driverless
- driver licence
- driverly
- driver-only operation
- driver reviver
- driverside
- driver's license
- driver transistor
- driver tube
- driver valve
- driver-yard
- drunk driver
- engine driver
- getaway driver
- ghost driver
- impact driver
- in the driver's seat
- L-driver
- lorry driver
- mass driver
- minidriver
- multidriver
- Negro-driver
- non-driver, nondriver
- nutdriver
- nut driver
- oncodriver
- paper driver
- pen-driver
- pile driver
- piledriver
- pill driver
- quill-driver
- race car driver
- racing driver
- scoop driver
- screwdriver
- self-driver
- shuttle-driver
- shuttle driver
- single-driver
- slave driver
- slave-driver
- stake-driver
- student driver
- Sunday driver
- taxi driver
- tractor driver
- tram driver
- truck-driver
- truck driver
- truck driver tan
- wooldriver
- wrong-way driver
Descendants
Translations
one who drives something, e.g. cattle
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something that drives something
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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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golf club
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See also
French
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
driver m (plural drivers)
Etymology 2
Adapted borrowing of English drive + -er.
Pronunciation
Verb
driver
Conjugation
| infinitive | simple | driver | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | drivant /dʁaj.vɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | drivé /dʁaj.ve/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (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/ | |
| past historic2 | drivai /dʁaj.ve/ |
drivas /dʁaj.va/ |
driva /dʁaj.va/ |
drivâmes /dʁaj.vam/ |
drivâtes /dʁaj.vat/ |
drivèrent /dʁaj.vɛʁ/ | |
| 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/ | |
| 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/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | drive /dʁajv/ |
drives /dʁajv/ |
drive /dʁajv/ |
drivions /dʁaj.vjɔ̃/ |
driviez /dʁaj.vje/ |
drivent /dʁajv/ |
| imperfect2 | drivasse /dʁaj.vas/ |
drivasses /dʁaj.vas/ |
drivât /dʁaj.va/ |
drivassions /dʁaj.va.sjɔ̃/ |
drivassiez /dʁaj.va.sje/ |
drivassent /dʁaj.vas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | drive /dʁajv/ |
— | drivons /dʁaj.vɔ̃/ |
drivez /dʁaj.ve/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Conjugation of driver (see also Appendix:French verbs)
Further reading
- “driver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English driver.
Noun
driver m or f by sense (invariable)
- driver (in a trotting race; tennis player good at driving)
Noun
driver m (invariable)
- driver (golf club; computer module)
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
driver
Derived terms
- (of the noun) pådriver
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English driver.
Pronunciation
Noun
driver m (plural drivers)
- (computing) driver (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- Synonym: controlador
- 2008, “Implementação do sistema de arquivos” (chapter 11), in Daniel Vieira, transl., Sistemas Operacionais com Java, 7th edition, Rio de Janeiro: Elsevier Brasil, translation of Operating System Concepts with Java by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, and Greg Gagne, →ISBN, page 311, column 1:
- As informações de boot podem ser armazenadas em uma partição separada. Mais uma vez, ela tem seu próprio formato, pois, no momento do boot, o sistema ainda não carregou drivers de dispositivo do sistema de arquivos e, por isso, não pode interpretar o formato do sistema de arquivos.
- [original: Boot information can be stored in a separate partition. Again, it has its own format, because at boot time the system does not have file-system device drivers loaded and therefore cannot interpret the file-system format.]
Further reading
- “driver”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “driver”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “driver”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
- “driver”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
driver c
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | driver | drivers |
| definite | drivern | driverns | |
| plural | indefinite | drivers, drivrar | drivers, drivrars |
| definite | drivrarna | drivrarnas |
See also
Verb
driver
References
Anagrams
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