• an overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work

    Driver meaning & definition 9 of Driver.


  • a part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:

    Driver meaning & definition 10 of Driver.


  • the driving wheel of a locomotive

    Driver meaning & definition 11 of Driver.


  • a crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone

    Driver meaning & definition 12 of Driver.


    1. The main loop of an event-processing
      program; the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution.
      2. [techspeak] In device
      driver, code designed to handle a particular peripheral device
      such as a magnetic disk or tape unit. 3. In the TeX world and the computerized typesetting world in
      general, a program that translates some device-independent or other common
      format to something a real device can actually understand.

    Driver meaning & definition 13 of Driver.


  • A large sail formerly used with the wind aft or quartering. It
    was a square sail cut like a studding-sail, and set with a great yard on
    the end of the spanker-boom, across the taffrail. The name latterly has
    been officially applied to the spanker, both being the aftermost sails
    of a ship, the ring-tail being only an addition, as a studding or
    steering sail. (See STEERING-SAIL.) Also, the foremost spur in the
    bilge-ways, the heel of which is fayed to the fore-side of the foremost
    poppet, and the sides of it look fore and aft. Also, a sort of
    fishing-boat.

    Driver meaning & definition 14 of Driver.


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

    Driver meaning & definition 15 of Driver.


  • a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.

    Driver meaning & definition 16 of Driver.


  • the person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive

    Driver meaning & definition 17 of Driver.


  • an attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier

    Driver meaning & definition 18 of Driver.


  • the after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker

    Driver meaning & definition 19 of Driver.


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

    Driver meaning & definition 20 of Driver.

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