Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word DRIVER
DRIVER
Definitions of DRIVER
- A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
- A person who drives some other vehicle.
- A mallet.
- A tamping iron.
- A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
- A screwdriver.
- One who drives something, in any sense of the verb drive.
- Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb drive.
- (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.
- (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.
- (audio) A device that converts an electrical signal to sound waves; the principal component of loudspeakers and headphones.
- A ucomm in Mississippi County, Arkansas, USA.
- A surname.
- A neighbourhood in the city of, Suffolk, Virginia, USA.
- A inner suburb, Palmerston, Northern Territory, Australia.
- A factor contributing to something; a cause.
- (chiefly in the plural) A driving wheel.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using DRIVER in a Sentence
- It was founded in 1960 by the Australian driver Jack Brabham and the British-Australian designer Ron Tauranac.
- "Riding shotgun" was a phrase used to describe the bodyguard who rides alongside a stagecoach driver, typically armed with a break-action shotgun, called a coach gun, to ward off bandits or hostile Native Americans.
- In the context of an operating system, a device driver is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer or automaton.
- During World War I, he worked as an ambulance driver and was imprisoned in an internment camp, which provided the basis for his novel The Enormous Room in 1922.
- The New York taxi driver test is a technique for evaluating the effectiveness of communication between policy makers and analysts.
- A big advantage of IPX was a small memory footprint of the IPX driver, which was vital for DOS and Windows up to Windows 95 due to the limited size at that time of conventional memory.
- He co-founded Brabham in 1960, leading the team to two World Constructors' Championship titles, and remains the only driver to have won the World Drivers' Championship in an eponymous car.
- The original "Old Glory" was a flag owned by the 19th-century American sea captain William Driver (March 17, 1803 – March 3, 1886).
- One, the driver, writes code while the other, the observer or navigator, reviews each line of code as it is typed in.
- Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937), nicknamed "the King", is an American former stock car racing driver who competed from 1958 to 1992 in the former NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series (now called the NASCAR Cup Series), most notably driving the No.
- Taxi Driver is a 1976 American neo-noir psychological drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris, and Albert Brooks.
- A mass driver or electromagnetic catapult is a proposed method of non-rocket spacelaunch which would use a linear motor to accelerate and catapult payloads up to high speeds.
- Born in Gorton, Manchester, to John Edward ("Jack") Thaw, a tool-setter at the Fairey Aviation Company aircraft factory, later a long-distance lorry driver, and Dorothy (née Ablott).
- Lauda won three Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles and—at the time of his retirement—held the record for most podium finishes (54); he remains the only driver to have won a World Drivers' Championship with both Ferrari and McLaren, and won 25 Grands Prix across 13 seasons.
- Its most common use today is to cause a Unix terminal driver to signal end of file and thus exit programs that are awaiting input.
- She also had roles as Kelly in Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid (1972), Betsy in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), and Nancy in Woody Allen's Alice (1990).
- The speaker driver is an electroacoustic transducer that converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound.
- Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.
- According to the historian Cassius Dio, he has a stable relationship with his chariot driver, the slave Hierocles.
- A seat belt, also known as a safety belt or spelled seatbelt, is a vehicle safety device designed to secure the driver or a passenger of a vehicle against harmful movement that may result during a collision or a sudden stop.
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