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Meaning of driver | Babel Free

Noun CEFR A2 Frequent
ˈdɹaɪ.və

Definitions

  1. One who drives something.
  2. A surname.
  3. One who drives something. A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car, truck, bus, train, forklift, etc
  4. A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car, truck, bus, train, forklift, etc.
  5. An unincorporated community in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States.
  6. A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car, truck, bus, train, forklift, etc
  7. A pilot (person who flies aircraft).
    slang
  8. A neighbourhood in the city of Suffolk, Virginia, United States.
  9. A pilot (person who flies aircraft)
  10. A person who drives livestock: a drover.
  11. An inner suburb of Palmerston, Northern Territory, Australia.
  12. A person who drives livestock: a drover
  13. Something that drives something else.
  14. 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. A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance. A kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars. A factor contributing to something; a cause. Any driving element in any mechanism, which drives the driven element
  15. A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
  16. A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
  17. A kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
  18. A factor contributing to something; a cause.
  19. Any driving element in any mechanism, which drives the driven element.
  20. A mallet.
  21. A tamping iron.
  22. A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
  23. A screwdriver, a nutdriver, or a bit for such a tool; such bits include nutsetters.
  24. A device that converts an electrical signal to sound waves; the principal component of loudspeakers and headphones.
  25. A driving wheel of a locomotive.
    in-plural

Equivalents

Azərbaycanca ranəndə şofer sürücü
བོད་སྐད ཁ་ལོ་བ
Čeština ovladač řidič řidička šofér
Cymraeg gyrrwr
Dansk chauffør
Deutsch Driver Fahrer Fahrerin Treiber
Ελληνικά οδηγός
Eesti juht
עברית נהג
हिन्दी चालक
Հայերեն վարորդ
Bahasa Indonesia sopir
Italiano autista driver guidatore guidatrice
ქართული მძღოლი
Kurdî motor şofêr
Latina auriga
Te Reo Māori atekōkiri pūtāhono
Македонски возач двигател шофер
Монгол жолооч
मराठी चालक
Bahasa Melayu drebar pemacu pemandu
Malti sewwieq xufier
မြန်မာဘာသာ ယာဉ်မောင်း
Română șofer șoferiță
Slovenčina šofér šoférka vodič
Shqip shofer
Српски motor šofer vodič возач шофер
Svenska chaufför driver drivrutin förare
Kiswahili dereva
తెలుగు చోదకుడు
Tagalog drayber
Türkçe haydavcı kıvcı şoför sürücü
ئۇيغۇرچە شوپۇر
Українська воді́й шофер
Tiếng Việt tài xế

Examples

“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 […]”
“The driver will make an announcement when the trip is nearing its completion.”
“Tipping your driver is optional but is much appreciated.”
“That’s nearly twice the highest posted speed limit in the United States, 85 mph, on a stretch of highway in Texas. Why do our speedometers stretch to a speed that’s illegal, and only race-car drivers will ever reach? Toyota spokesman Paul Hogard said the automaker wants speedometers to be easy to read, so there’s value in placing the typical operating speed of American cars, 45 mph to 70 mph, he said, at the top of the speedometer, which is the easiest place on the speedometer for the driver to read.”
“Earlier this month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began an investigation into four crashes of Teslas operating with a partial-automation system (which can navigate highways and steer the car on city streets but requires a licensed driver to be present), including one in which a pedestrian was killed. In a news release, NHTSA said reduced visibility may have led to the crashes.”
“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 of Columbus. So the cattle driving to Kansas was the only hope at that time, and it proved to be a great help before the railroads got around. Trail driving to Kansas lasted from 1866 to 1886 and it was estimated that fully eight million head of cattle and horses were driven and sold during the twenty years above mentioned to Kansas, the drivers paying for the cattle on an average of $10.00 per head, although most of the horses came back to Texas and were used the next year. There were all sizes of herds from five hundred to twenty-five hundred cattle in a drove, usually seven or eight men to the small herds and twelve to fifteen men with the large herds.”
“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.”
“The aim is to secure up to £140 million for the combined road and rail improvements, including a new road bridge to replace a level crossing at Totton. A key driver has been the approval of a new housing and employment development called Fawley Waterside, with 1,500 homes planned on the site of a redundant power station on the edge of Southampton Water.”
“The brassey much resembled the driver, but the iron opened out quite a new field of practice; […]”
“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.”
“The driver engages the follower intermittently, as dictated by the solenoid.”
“Among the driver and screw types available, you'll find several cross-slot varieties including the Reed & Prince […]”
“The later iterations of these locomotives had 56-inch drivers.”
“With a toot on her chime whistle, No. 6 set her 3 ft. 9 in. drivers turning and we were off round the curve through Pennyburn works.”
“Blank's former girlfriend Debi Newberry (Minnie Driver), whom he jilted in high school, now works as a radio DJ.”

CEFR level

A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
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