'Driver' definitions:
Definition of 'driver'
(from WordNet)
noun
The operator of a motor vehicle [ant: nondriver]
noun
Someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle
noun
A golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver
noun
(computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device [syn: driver, device driver]
noun
A golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee [syn: driver, number one wood]
Definition of 'Driver'
From: GCIDE
- Driver \Driv"er\, n. [From Drive.]
- 1. One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a any vehicle. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 3. An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Mach.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Naut.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. --Totten. [1913 Webster]
- 6. An implement used for driving; as: (a) A mallet. (b) A tamping iron. (c) A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops. (d) A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for playing the longest strokes. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'driver'
From: GCIDE
- Spanker \Spank"er\ (sp[a^][ng]k"[~e]r), n.
- 1. One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Naut.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail. --Totten. [1913 Webster]
- 3. One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast horse. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- 4. Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- Spanker boom (Naut.), a boom to which a spanker sail is attached. See Illust. of Ship. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'driver'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute monarch,
- absolute ruler,
- agent,
- airscrew,
- all-powerful ruler,
- arrogator,
- autarch,
- autocrat,
- backseat driver,
- boy,
- bullwhacker,
- bus driver,
- busman,
- butler,
- cabby,
- cabdriver,
- cabman,
- caesar,
- cameleer,
- carter,
- cartman,
- charioteer,
- chauffeur,
- coachman,
- coachy,
- cocher,
- cochero,
- commissar,
- conductor,
- czar,
- despot,
- dictator,
- disciplinarian,
- drayman,
- duce,
- elephant driver,
- engineer,
- equerry,
- fan,
- functionary,
- gardener,
- gentleman,
- gharry-wallah,
- gillie,
- hack,
- hackdriver,
- hackman,
- hacky,
- handler,
- hard master,
- harness racer,
- hit-and-run driver,
- houseboy,
- houseman,
- impeller,
- Jehu,
- jitney driver,
- joyrider,
- lord-in-waiting,
- mahout,
- man,
- manipulator,
- manservant,
- martinet,
- motorist,
- mule skinner,
- muleteer,
- oligarch,
- operant,
- operative,
- operator,
- oppressor,
- paddle wheel,
- pharaoh,
- pilot,
- piston,
- prop,
- propellant,
- propeller,
- propulsor,
- reinsman,
- road hog,
- rotor,
- runner,
- screw,
- screw propeller,
- Simon Legree,
- skinner,
- slave driver,
- speeder,
- stage coachman,
- steersman,
- stickler,
- Sunday driver,
- taxidriver,
- teamster,
- truck driver,
- trucker,
- truckman,
- turbine,
- twin screws,
- tyrant,
- usurper,
- valet,
- valet de chambre,
- vetturino,
- voiturier,
- wagoner,
- wagonman,
- warlord,
- wheel,
- whip
Words containing 'Driver'
- Driver ant,
- Engine driver,
- Feather driver,
- Field driver,
- Hen driver,
- Pile driver,
- Quill driver,
- River driver,
- Slave driver,
- Sunday driver,
- automobile driver,
- backseat driver,
- bus driver,
- designated driver,
- device driver,
- driver's licence,
- driver's license,
- hack driver,
- livery driver,
- mule driver,
- race driver,
- stake driver,
- tank driver,
- test driver,
- truck driver,
- Gunpowder pile driver,
- Screw-driver,
- Stake-driver,
- hack-driver,
- owner-driver