driver

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
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɹaɪ.və(ɹ)/
  • (US) enPR: drīʹvər, IPA(key): /ˈdɹaɪvɚ/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)

Noun

driver (plural drivers)

  1. 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 […]
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. A person who drives some other vehicle.
  5. (aviation, slang) A pilot (person who flies aircraft).
  6. (computing) A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
  7. (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; […]
  8. (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.
  9. A factor contributing to something; a cause.
  10. A mallet.
  11. A tamping iron.
  12. A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
  13. 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 […]
  14. (audio) A device that converts an electrical signal to sound waves; the principal component of loudspeakers and headphones.
  15. (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

Descendants
  • → Japanese: ドライバー (doraibā)
    • → Hakka: 多拉把 (tô-lai-pá, tô-lai-pà, tò-lái-pà)
    • → Hokkien: 螺賴把／螺赖把 (lo͘-lài-bà)
  • → Hokkien: 嚦峇／呖峇 (lē-bā)
  • → Scottish Gaelic: draibhear

Translations
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See also

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English driver.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dʁaj.vœʁ/

Noun

driver m (plural drivers)

  1. (golf) driver

Etymology 2

From English drive +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dʁaj.ve/

Verb

driver

  1. (golf outside Louisiana, Cajun) to drive
Conjugation
Conjugation of driver (see also Appendix:French verbs)
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 – tu – nous vous –
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English driver.

Noun

driver m or f by sense (invariable)

  1. driver (in a trotting race; tennis player good at driving)

Noun

driver m (invariable)

  1. driver (golf club; computer module)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

driver

  1. present tense of drive

Derived terms

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English driver.

Pronunciation
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈdɾaj.veʁ/

Noun

driver m or f (plural drivers)

  1. (computing) driver (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
    Synonym: controlador

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:driver.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English driver.

Noun

driver c

  1. (golf) a driver (club)

Declension
Declension of driver 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative driver drivern drivers, drivrar drivrarna
Genitive drivers driverns drivers, drivrars drivrarnas

See also

Verb

driver

  1. present indicative of driva

References

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