driver

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:

One who drives something, in any sense of the verb drive.

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.

2014, Bridgette Wessels, Exploring Social Change: Process and Context, page 106:

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.

2020 December 16, “Network News: "Robust case" for Fawley branch reopening”, in Rail, page 14:

Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb drive.

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.

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.

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):

A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.

(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.

The brassey much resembled the driver, but the iron opened out quite a new field of practice; […]

1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:

(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 factor contributing to something; a cause.

A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.

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:

(audio) A device that converts an electrical signal to sound waves; the principal component of loudspeakers and headphones.

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.

1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, in Railway Magazine, page 353:

(chiefly in the plural) A driving wheel.

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→ 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

shofer

person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus

szoferka

the female form is colloquial or has other meanings

դրայվեր

program acting as interface between an application and hardware

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”).


driver

(golf outside Louisiana, Cajun) to drive

driver (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
drivant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
drivé (participle past)
drive (first-person indicative present singular)
drives (indicative present second-person singular)
drive (indicative present singular third-person)
drivons (first-person indicative plural present)
drivez (indicative plural present second-person)
drivent (indicative plural present third-person)
drivais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
drivais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
drivait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
drivions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
driviez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
drivaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
drivai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
drivas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
driva (historic indicative past singular third-person)
drivâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
drivâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
drivèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
driverai (first-person future indicative singular)
driveras (future indicative second-person singular)
drivera (future indicative singular third-person)
driverons (first-person future indicative plural)
driverez (future indicative plural second-person)
driveront (future indicative plural third-person)
driverais (conditional first-person singular)
driverais (conditional second-person singular)
driverait (conditional singular third-person)
driverions (conditional first-person plural)
driveriez (conditional plural second-person)
driveraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
drive (first-person present singular subjunctive)
drives (present second-person singular subjunctive)
drive (present singular subjunctive third-person)
drivions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
driviez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
drivent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
drivasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
drivasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
drivât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
drivassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
drivassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
drivassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
drive (imperative second-person singular)
drivons (first-person imperative plural)
drivez (imperative plural second-person)

Adapted borrowing of English drive + -er.


driver

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

Unadapted borrowing from English driver.


driver

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.

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:

(computing) driver (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)


driver

driver (indefinite nominative singular)
drivers (genitive indefinite singular)
drivern (definite nominative singular)
driverns (definite genitive singular)
drivers (indefinite nominative plural)
drivrar (indefinite nominative plural)
drivers (genitive indefinite plural)
drivrars (genitive indefinite plural)
drivrarna (definite nominative plural)
drivrarnas (definite genitive plural)