Thesaurus: driver

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1. n. One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
2. n. The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.
3. n. An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
4. n. A part that link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/transmits">transmits link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/motion">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:
5. n. The driving wheel of a locomotive.
6. n. An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.
7. n. A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
8. n. The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
9. n. the operator of a motor vehicle
10. n. someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle
11. n. a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver
12. n. (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device