driver

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   One who drives something.

   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. 2
   noun

   Something that drives something else.

   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.

3. 3
   name

   A surname.

   Blank's former girlfriend Debi Newberry (Minnie Driver), whom he jilted in high school, now works as a radio DJ.

4. 4
   noun

   a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee

5. 5
   noun

   (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device

6. 6
   noun

   the operator of a motor vehicle

7. 7
   noun

   a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver

8. 8
   noun

   someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle

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”), Swedish drivare (“driver”).