From en.wiktionary.org:
[Driver]
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], [enm], equivalent to [en]. Cognate with [stq], [nl],
[nds-de], [de], [sv].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [drīʹvər] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. One who drive s something.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2016 | author=John Swain | title=Digging Up The Pitmen | page=164
|passage=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 [...]}}
1. [en] A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car, truck, bus, train, forklift, etc.
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. [en] [en] A pilot (person who flies aircraft).
5. [en] A person who drives livestock : a drover .
6. * [en ]
1. Something that drive s something else.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2014 | author=Bridgette Wessels | title=Exploring Social Change: Process and Context | page=106
|passage=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.}}
1. * [en]
1. [en] [en] A device driver ; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware , written specifically for the device it controls.
2. [en] [en] A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1902 | author=Robert Marshall Grade | title=The Haunted Major
|passage=The brassey much resembled the DRIVER, but the iron opened out quite
a new field of practice; [...]}}
1. [en] [en] A kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars .
2. [en] A factor contributing to something; a cause .
3. [en] [en] Any driving element in any mechanism , which drives the driven element.
4. A mallet .
5. A tamping iron .
6. A cooper 's hammer for driving on barrel hoop s.
7. [en] A screwdriver , a nutdriver , or a bit for such a tool; such bits include nutsetter s.
8. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1996 | journal=Popular Mechanics | volume=173 | issue=12
|passage=Among the DRIVER and screw types available, you'll find several
cross-slot varieties including the Reed & Prince [...]}}
1. [en] A device that convert s an electrical signal to sound wave s; the principal component of loudspeaker s and headphones .
2. [en] [en] A driving wheel of a locomotive.
3. * [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|collapse=n |blip driver|cab driver|camel driver|chauffeur
driver|combine driver|Death Valley driver|designated driver|drink
driver|drink-driver|driver ant|driver fatigue|driver licence|driver
reviver|drunk driver|engine driver|ghost driver|impact driver|L-driver|lorry
driver|Negro-driver|pen-driver|pile driver|pill driver|quill-driver|race car
driver|shuttle driver|shuttle-driver|slave
driver|slave-driver|stake-driver|Sunday driver|taxi driver|tractor driver|tram
driver|truck driver tan|truck-driver|wrong-way driver |back-seat driver |bus
driver|mass driver|self-driver|student driver |cattle
driver|cabdriver|codriver|driveress|driverly|minidriver|multidriver|nut
driver|nutdriver|oncodriver|wooldriver |coach driver |daily driver| crane
driver|nutdriver |device driver |driver-ant |driver-boom |driverless
|driver-only operation |driverside |driver's license |driver transistor
|driver tube|owner-driver |driver valve|getaway driver|driver-yard |in the
driver's seat |non-driver,nondriver |paper driver |piledriver |racing driver
|scoop driver |screwdriver |single-driver |truck driver |driver's education }}
**** Descendants
- [ja]
- [nan-hbl]
- [gd]
**** Translations
[one who drives something, e.g. cattle]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg] < !-- not a vehicle driver-->
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Kamba: [kam]
- Kikuyu: [ki]
- Kurdish:
- Luhya: [luy]
- Luo: [luo]
- Macedonian: [mk] < !-- not a vehicle driver-->
- Manx: [gv]
- Maori: [mi] [a vehicle] , [mi] [stock or animals]
- Meru: [mer]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw] , [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[something that drives something]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] [figuratively]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Swahili: [sw]
[trans-bottom]
[person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq] , [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az] , [az] [South Azerbaijani]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Faroese: [fo] [car] , [fo] [bus] , [fo] [motorcycle] , [fo] [truck]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] [colloquial]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky] , [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv] , [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt] , [lt] , [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Maltese: [mt] , [mt] , [mt] , [mt]
- Maore Comorian: [swb]
- Maori: [mi]
- Marathi: [mr] , [mr]
- Mongolian:
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Norwegian:
- Pannonian Rusyn: [rsk]
- Pashto: [ps] , [ps] , [ps]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] [the female form is colloquial] , [pl] , [pl] [the female form is colloquial or has other meanings] , [pl] [archaic] , [pl] [archaic]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [male or female]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl] , [sl] , [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [disparaging]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk] , [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[person who drives some other vehicle]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] [colloquial]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [railway] [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [coachman, carter, wagoner] [hu]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Marathi: [mr] , [mr]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Telugu: [te]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
[trans-bottom]
[program acting as interface between an application and hardware]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] [see also its synonyms there]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[golf club]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Korean: [ko]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[a factor contributing to something]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Maltese: [mt] , [mt]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
*** See also
{{col4|en |chauffeur |conductor |pilot |rider }}
[en]
** French
*** Etymology 1
[fr].
**** Alternative forms
- [fr]
**** Pronunciation
- [dra [ j ] veur]
**** Noun
[m]
1. [fr] [en]
*** Etymology 2
[fr].
**** Pronunciation
- [[i:ail ]]
**** Verb
[fr-verb]
1. [fr] to drive
***** Conjugation
[pron=dra [ j ] ver]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
*** Anagrams
- [fr]
** Italian
*** Etymology
[it].
*** Noun
[mfbysense]
1. [en] (in a trotting race; tennis player good at driving)
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] (golf club; computer module)
[it]
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Verb
[nb]
1. [nb]
**** Derived terms
- [of the noun] [nb]
** Portuguese
[Driver de dispositivo]
*** Etymology
[pt].
*** Pronunciation
[br=dráiver]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [pt] [en] [program acting as interface between an application and hardware]
2. * {{ quote-book | pt | year=2008 | translator=Daniel Vieira | chapter=Implementação do sistema de arquivos | chapter_number=11 | title=Sistemas Operacionais com Java | pageurl=http://books.google.com.br/books?id=Y8HMA2XngmwC&pg=PA311#v=onepage&q&f=false
|isbn=9788535224061|page=311|column=1|publisher=Elsevier Brasil|location=Rio
de Janeiro|edition=7th|original=Operating System Concepts with Java|by=
Abraham Silberschatz;Peter Baer Galvin;Greg Gagne |passage=As informações de
boot podem ser armazenadas em uma partição separada. Mais uma vez, ela tem
seu próprio formato, pois, no momento do boot, o sistema ainda não carregou
DRIVERS de dispositivo do sistema de arquivos e, por isso, não pode
interpretar o formato do sistema de arquivos. |origtext=en: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.}}
*** Further reading
- [R:pt:Aulete]
- [R:pt:Infopédia]
- [R:pt:Priberam]
- [R:pt:Michaelis]
** Swedish
[lang=sv]
*** Etymology
[sv].
*** Noun
[c]
1. [sv] a [en] (club)
**** Declension
[driver]
**** See also
- [sv]
*** Verb
[sv]
1. [sv]
*** References
- [so]
- [saol]
*** Anagrams
- [sv]