driver

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɹaɪ.və/    美 /ˈdɹaɪvɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who drives something.
    — 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 […]
  2. One who drives something.; A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car, truck, bus, train, forklift, etc.
    — The driver will make an announcement when the trip is nearing its completion.
  3. One who drives something.; A pilot (person who flies aircraft). slang
  4. One who drives something.; A person who drives livestock: a drover.
    — 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.
  5. Something that drives something else.
    — 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Something that drives something else.; A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
    — The brassey much resembled the driver, but the iron opened out quite a new field of practice; […]
  8. Something that drives something else.; A kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
  9. Something that drives something else.; A factor contributing to something; a cause.
    — 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.
  10. Something that drives something else.; Any driving element in any mechanism, which drives the driven element.
    — The driver engages the follower intermittently, as dictated by the solenoid.
  11. Something that drives something else.; A mallet.
  12. Something that drives something else.; A tamping iron.
  13. Something that drives something else.; A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
  14. Something that drives something else.; A screwdriver, a nutdriver, or a bit for such a tool; such bits include nutsetters.
    — Among the driver and screw types available, you'll find several cross-slot varieties including the Reed & Prince […]
  15. Something that drives something else.; A device that converts an electrical signal to sound waves; the principal component of loudspeakers and headphones.
  16. Something that drives something else.; A driving wheel of a locomotive. in-plural
    — The later iterations of these locomotives had 56-inch drivers.

词形变化

drivers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
back-seat driver blip driver bus driver cab driver cabdriver camel driver cattle driver chauffeur driver coach driver codriver combine driver crane driver daily driver Death Valley driver designated driver device driver drabi drink-driver drink driver driver ant driver-ant driver-boom driveress driver fatigue driverless driver licence driverly driver-only operation driver reviver driver's education driverside driver's license driver transistor driver tube driver valve driver-yard drug driver drunk driver engine driver getaway driver ghost driver impact driver in the driver's seat L-driver lorry driver mass driver minidriver multidriver Negro-driver non-driver nondriver nutdriver nut driver oncodriver owner-driver paper driver pen-driver pile driver piledriver pill driver quill-driver race car driver racing driver scoop driver screwdriver self-driver shuttle-driver shuttle driver single-driver slave driver slave-driver stake-driver student driver Sunday driver taxi driver tractor driver tram driver truck driver truck-driver truck driver tan wooldriver wrong-way driver
相关词
chauffeur conductor pilot rider

词源

From Middle English drivere, dryvere, dryvare, equivalent to drive + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Drieuwer (“driver”), Dutch drijver (“driver”), German Low German Driever (“driver”), German Treiber (“driver”), Swedish drivare (“driver”).
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