Driver : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Driver	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for Driver
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
driver n the operator of a motor vehicle Antonym(s): nondriver someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device Synonym(s): driver, device driver a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee Synonym(s): driver, number one wood
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spanker \Spank"er\, n. 1. One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking. 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. 3. One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast horse. [Colloq.] 4. Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person. [Colloq.] {Spanker boom} (Naut.), a boom to which a spanker sail is attached. See Illust. of {Ship}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 2. The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive. 3. An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work. 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. 5. (Naut.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. --Totten. {Driver ant} (Zo[94]l.), 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.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Driver, AR Zip code(s): 72329
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
driver 1. {device driver}. 2. The {main loop} of an event-processing program; the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution. 3. In the {TeX} world and the computerised typesetting world in general, a program that translates some device-independent or other common format to something a real device can actually understand. [{Jargon File}]