driver

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 […]

One who drives something.; A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car, truck, bus, train, forklift, etc.

• The driver will make an announcement when the trip is nearing its completion.
• Tipping your driver is optional but is much appreciated.

One who drives something.; A pilot (person who flies aircraft).slang

One who drives something.; A person who drives livestock: a drover.

• Up until 1872 there was not over 150 miles of railroad in the state [Texas], that was from Galveston to Houston, and a short line from Houston to Brazoria, twenty-five miles in length, and one road from Harrisburg to Alton, three miles east

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.

Something that drives something else.; A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.

Something that drives something else.; A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.

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

Something that drives something else.; A kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.

Something that drives something else.; A factor contributing to something; a cause.

• Compared with June 2023, consumers’ perceptions of the main drivers of inflation shifted towards wages, although other input costs were still seen as the strongest driver overall.

Something that drives something else.; Any driving element in any mechanism, which drives the driven element.

• The driver engages the follower intermittently, as dictated by the solenoid.