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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) | ||
driver n 1: the operator of a motor vehicle [ant: nondriver] 2: someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle 3: a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver 4: (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device [syn: driver, device driver] 5: a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee [syn: driver, number one wood] | ||
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Spanker \Spank"er\ (sp[a^][ng]k"[~e]r), n. 1. One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking. [1913 Webster] 2. (Naut.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail. --Totten. [1913 Webster] 3. One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast horse. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] 4. Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] Spanker boom (Naut.), a boom to which a spanker sail is attached. See Illust. of Ship. [1913 Webster] | ||
3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Driver \Driv"er\, n. [From Drive.] 1. One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward. [1913 Webster] 2. The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a any vehicle. [1913 Webster +PJC] 3. An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work. [1913 Webster] 4. (Mach.) 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: (a) The driving wheel of a locomotive. (b) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier. (c) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone. [1913 Webster] 5. (Naut.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. --Totten. [1913 Webster] 6. An implement used for driving; as: (a) A mallet. (b) A tamping iron. (c) A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops. (d) A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for playing the longest strokes. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Driver ant (Zool.), a species of African stinging ant; one of the visiting ants (Anomma arcens); -- so called because they move about in vast armies, and drive away or devour all insects and other small animals. [1913 Webster] | ||
4. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) | ||
driver n. 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. | ||
5. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) | ||
driver drivers 1. | ||
6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) | ||
DRIVER. One employed in conducting a coach, carriage, wagon, or other vehicle, with horses, mules, or other animals. 2. Frequent accidents occur in consequence of the neglect or want of skill of drivers of public stage coaches, for which the employers are responsible. 3. The law requires that a driver should possess reasonable skill and be of good habits for the journey; if, therefore, he is not acquainted with the road he undertakes to drive; 3 Bingh. Rep. 314, 321; drives with reins so loose that he cannot govern his horses; 2 Esp. R. 533; does not give notice of any serious danger on the road; 1 Camp. R. 67; takes the wrong side of the road; 4 Esp. R. 273; incautiously comes in collision with another carriage; 1 Stark. R. 423; 1 Campb. R. 167; or does not exercise a sound and reasonable discretion in travelling on the road, to avoid dangers and difficulties, and any accident happens by which any passenger is injured, both the driver and his employers will be responsible. 2 Stark. R. 37; 3 Engl. C. L. Rep. 233; 2 Esp. R. 533; 11. Mass. 57; 6 T. R. 659; 1 East, R. 106; 4 B. & A. 590; 6 Eng. C. L. R. 528; 2 Mc Lean, R. 157. Vide Common carriers Negligence; Quasi Offence. | ||
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