driver: Meaning and Definition of

driv•er

1. a person or thing that drives.
2. a person who drives a vehicle; coachman, chauffeur, etc.
3. a person who drives an animal or animals, as a drover or cowboy.
4. Also calleda club with a wooden head whose face has almost no slope, for hitting long, low drives from the tee.
1. a part that transmits force or motion.
2. the member of a pair of connected pulleys, gears, etc., that is nearer to the power source.
6. software or hardware that controls the interface between a computer and a peripheral device.
7. See(def. 2).
8. a locomotive engineer.
1. the part of a loudspeaker that transforms the electrical signal into sound.
2. the entire loudspeaker.
1. a jib-headed spanker sail.
2. a designation given to one of the masts abaft the mizzen on a sailing vessel having more than three masts, either the fifth or sixth from forward. Cf. pusher (def. 4),spanker(def. 1b).