driver
See also: Driver
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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”).
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɹaɪ.və(ɹ)/
- (US) enPR: drīʹvər, IPA(key): /ˈdɹaɪvɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)
NounEdit
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 […]
- 2016, John Swain, Digging Up The Pitmen (page 164)
- 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.
- 2014, Bridgette Wessels, Exploring Social Change: Process and Context (page 106)
- 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.
- 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; […]
- 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major
- (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.
- 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 […]
- 1996, Popular Mechanics (volume 173, number 12)
Derived termsEdit
- back-seat driver
- blip driver
- bus driver
- cab driver
- camel driver
- cattle driver
- chauffeur driver
- coach driver
- combine driver
- daily driver
- Death Valley driver
- designated driver
- device driver
- drink driver
- drink-driver
- driver ant
- driver fatigue
- driver licence
- driver reviver
- driver transistor
- driver tube
- driver valve
- driver-ant
- driver-boom
- driver-only operation
- driver-yard
- driverless
- driver's license
- driverside
- drunk driver
- engine driver
- ghost driver
- impact driver
- in the driver's seat
- L-driver
- lorry driver
- Negro-driver
- non-driver, nondriver
- paper driver
- pen-driver
- pile driver
- piledriver
- pill driver
- quill-driver
- race car driver
- racing driver
- screwdriver
- shuttle driver
- shuttle-driver
- single-driver
- slave driver
- slave-driver
- stake-driver
- Sunday driver
- taxi driver
- tractor driver
- tram driver
- truck driver
- truck driver tan
- truck-driver
- wrong-way driver
DescendantsEdit
- → Scottish Gaelic: draibhear
TranslationsEdit
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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Translations to be checked
See alsoEdit
FrenchEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
driver m (plural drivers)
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
driver
ConjugationEdit
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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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). | |||||||
Further readingEdit
- “driver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
AnagramsEdit
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English driver.
NounEdit
driver m or f by sense (invariable)
- driver (in a trotting race; tennis player good at driving)
NounEdit
driver m (invariable)
- driver (golf club; computer module)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
VerbEdit
driver
Derived termsEdit
- (of the noun) pådriver
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English driver.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
driver m or f (plural drivers)
- (computing) driver (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- Synonym: controlador
QuotationsEdit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:driver.
SwedishEdit
VerbEdit
driver
- present tense of driva.