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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
driver
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bus driver
▪ She asked the bus driver where to get off for the Botanical Gardens.
a cab driver
▪ Many cab drivers fear being robbed.
a car driver
▪ Every year 1500 car drivers and passengers die in road accidents.
a coach driver
▪ He worked as a part-time coach driver.
a learner driver
▪ Learner drivers often tend to grip the steering wheel too tightly.
a taxi driver
▪ He paid the taxi driver and got out.
a train driver
▪ The train driver apologized for the late departure.
designated driver
driver's education
driver's license
hit-and-run driver
long-distance lorry driver
pile driver
pilot/driver error
▪ Investigators believe the crash was caused by pilot error.
safe driver
▪ Women are safer drivers than men.
slave driver
the driver's seat
▪ He climbed into the driver's seat.
truck driver
▪ a truck driver
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
other
▪ It was in that respect that James differed most radically from the other drivers I was getting to know.
▪ The other driver was also only shaken.
▪ Voice over Other drivers described how the Metro overtook a caravan and then started weaving from side to side.
▪ Each was questioned on driving behaviour, experience, attitude to other drivers, the influence of others and leisure activities.
▪ Using the correct position and signals really helps other drivers.
▪ He spent much of the time swerving and cursing other drivers.
▪ For no apparent reason he had collided with a car coming in the opposite direction, killing the other driver instantly.
▪ The other driver, Douglas Ward, 48, of Yedingham, Malton, suffered shock.
racing
▪ The couple were introduced by Steffi's racing driver brother Michael.
▪ Second, in making occupational and recreational choices, for example being a racing driver or going climbing, people do take risks.
▪ Until 1979, Ward worked as a racing driver.
▪ The racing driver one, after all.
▪ Company men, like former world champion racing driver Jackie Stewart believe it's a world beater.
▪ Racer raided RACING driver Derek Bell had trophies and mementoes worth Pounds 10,000 stolen from his home.
▪ Clark, twice world champion racing driver, was the first honorary freeman of Duns.
young
▪ Shock tactics to drum safety into young drivers.
▪ The leading prize was the Grovewood Award which went to the outstanding young driver of the year.
▪ Read in studio Shock tactics are being used to make young drivers more aware of danger on the roads.
▪ It has to find a way to appeal to younger drivers.
▪ It seems the young drivers like to play up to an audience.
▪ We got change for a £5 note from a young taxi driver recently.
▪ This video has been put together by Oxfordshire ambulance service to warn young drivers of the dangers of getting behind the wheel.
▪ He recruits young drivers from their results on the karting and lower formula racing circuit.
■ NOUN
bus
▪ After several decades of cyclists being terrorised by the bus drivers, the seeds of a counter-movement are taking shape.
▪ This bus driver has driven us to the promised land.
▪ They also care about trainspotters and bus drivers.
▪ State and local governments hire teachers, bus drivers, police, and firefighters.
▪ My bus driver, in the morning, spoke in a guttural Derry accent.
▪ Also patron of bus drivers, motorists, porters, travelers, truck drivers; he is invoked against nightmares.
▪ School route: Durham county council has reminded school bus drivers that they should not use the narrow Roundhill Road route.
cab
▪ Male cab drivers in Gloucester said running a female only business would give an unfair impression of men.
▪ Coffee grounds and cab drivers tend to be less precise than computers.
▪ I told the cab driver to wait and watched Jules as he went up to the house.
▪ David P.. Schneider is a cab driver in San Francisco.
▪ Worked as a cab driver, plumber, and studio assistant to the sculptor, Richard Serrs.
▪ Andy Brown, the gullible foil and friend of Kingfish, and Amos Jones, a salt-of-the-earth cab driver.
▪ Simm's cab driver recognises him.
car
▪ Sports car drivers might prefer less body roll when cornering.
▪ The typical conjecture is that if you protect car driver from their mistakes you encourage bad driving.
▪ Race car drivers are, by their very nature, entrepreneurs.
▪ The same would apply to the abstracted car driver.
▪ The distracted car driver who arrives at her destination without mishap ipsofacto saw where she was going.
device
▪ More complex services - from device driver interfaces up will be handled by the operating system personality on top.
▪ This, in turn, relieves the software houses of the problem of having to write and test numerous device drivers.
▪ It is now said to have completed the main porting work and is now wading through the device driver work.
▪ It will provide updated device drivers for the next release of Windows For Workgroups.
▪ Specific device drivers are required for each relational database.
lorry
▪ He was working as a lorry driver but was no longer enjoying it.
▪ He now works as a lorry driver.
▪ Former lorry driver Leonard Marder finds it difficult to walk because of an infected leg caused by varicose veins.
▪ E.g. A lorry driver may sustain an injury which will prevent him from ever driving a lorry again.
▪ For six weeks a jury has heard the callousness with which the lorry driver treated his human cargo.
▪ And lorry drivers don't sheet their loads, so the dust streams off the backs of the lorries.
▪ Dalton was a lorry driver, Fox didn't even have a driving licence.
▪ The public did not blame Opec, the oil companies, the lorry drivers, or Uncle Tom Cobbleigh...
taxi
▪ Angry taxi drivers responded by boycotting a planned workshop on treating customers courteously.
▪ Because as part of their battle plan the taxi drivers are offering them free rides.
▪ It all seemed to depend on the maneuvering skills of the taxi driver and the state of the tides.
▪ Kim had worked as a taxi driver for about five years.
▪ He even asked the taxi driver to go via an off licence.
▪ Harpenden police confirmed that a unit had been called out to resolve a dispute between Andy Linighan and a taxi driver.
▪ As it turned out, he was the only taxi driver not to try to cheat me.
train
▪ A spokesman said the freight train driver spotted the danger but could not prevent the collision.
▪ In the extreme case of train drivers, there is no transfer into the hierarchy above the entry grade.
▪ They were joined by underground train drivers in the capital.
▪ So you're both going to be firemen, not train drivers?
▪ First, a strike by even a proportion of core workers such as train drivers or signalmen can paralyse the network.
▪ So ticket collectors would strike while train drivers worked normally.
truck
▪ If you are a dentist or a forklift truck driver it is easy to tell others what your skills are.
▪ These rank-and-file members, truck drivers, or waitresses, or whoever, are they capable of running the local?
▪ Fork truck driver not looking where going. 24.
▪ At first glance, he resembled a truck driver, or perhaps a mercenary soldier.
▪ The sailor was by then a truck driver.
▪ Also patron of bachelors, bus drivers, porters, travelers, and truck drivers; he is invoked against nightmares.
▪ The truck driver survived with injuries, firemen said.
▪ The truck driver Gurjit Singh, 27, was not injured.
■ VERB
allow
▪ A To help alleviate the personal security fears of lone lady drivers, and allow drivers to make business calls whilst enroute.
▪ At about 7: 50 the stoplights were working along Market Street, once again allowing drivers to run them.
▪ A dashboard-mounted lever allows the driver to make easy direction changes.
▪ The automatic transmission also allows the driver to select either of two sets of shifting points to emphasize power or economy.
ask
▪ Note that an officer who is not authorised to test and inspect will have to ask the driver before his examination.
▪ The roadblocks were really drunk-driving checkpoints at which police simply would ask drivers if they had a gun in the car.
▪ He even asked the taxi driver to go via an off licence.
▪ Why did I not ask Koju, my driver, to drive?
▪ He had asked the driver to wait two minutes whilst he saw whether or not I was through customs and in the foyer.
▪ Park your car in the middle of the road and ask a passing driver for help.
▪ She asked the driver to take her to the estate agent.
▪ As I turned back, I regretted not having asked the driver if he had seen our Land Rover.
hit
▪ When I was hit by a drunk driver in 1980, crossing the road in Los Angeles.
▪ With the fairway firm and running, players who hit drivers left themselves with pitch shots into the green.
▪ They hit coshed the driver and made off with two and a half million pounds in used five pound notes.
▪ He hit the driver well, leaving himself 221 yards for his second shot.
▪ You don't need to hit driver.
kill
▪ For no apparent reason he had collided with a car coming in the opposite direction, killing the other driver instantly.
▪ Drunk drivers My 16-year-old son, Louis, was killed by a drunk driver on 13 July, 1992.
▪ The freight train that ploughed into it, killing its driver, will then be moved.
▪ And some criminals pretending to act on my orders have been killing drivers and then stealing their cars.
license
▪ Notes Note A. About yourself For driver licensing purposes you are asked to declare your main forename.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Sunday driver
▪ He has the settled attitude of the Sunday driver.
▪ Too many Sunday drivers for my liking.
back seat driver
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A lot of truck drivers stop at this restaurant because it's open all night.
▪ Car drivers now pay more than ever for fuel.
▪ Foreign investors think that Latin America's need for them puts them in the driver's seat.
▪ Harry asked the cab driver to stop outside the store for a couple of minutes while he bought a paper.
▪ He got into the driver's seat and started the engine.
▪ Many drivers suffer from backache.
▪ Some women drivers are concerned about their personal safety.
▪ The car was almost torn in half in the crash but amazingly the driver was unhurt.
▪ The limousine pulled up outside the church and the driver got out.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For example it monitors driving times and can tell a driver when he needs to take a break.
▪ The driver climbed lazily out of the Jeep and walked up holding an army canteen whose yellow surface was peeling.
▪ The driver of a third car also lost control and went into a skid.
▪ The driver was already pulling away in the Rolls, and Edouard already striding towards the house.
▪ The car was unmarked, there were no military or diplomatic plates, no official driver, no bodyguard.
▪ Two years ago tomorrow a family of four died when a driver fell asleep on the A420 and collided with them.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
driver

Spanker \Spank"er\ (sp[a^][ng]k"[~e]r), 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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
driver

"one who drives" in various senses, c.1400; agent noun from drive (v.). Slavery sense is attested by 1796. Driver's seat is attested by 1867; figurative use by 1954.

Wiktionary
driver

n. 1 One who drives something, in any sense of the verb '''to drive'''. 2 Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb '''to drive'''. 3 A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus. 4 A person who drives some other vehicle. 5 (context computing English) A program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls. 6 (context golf English) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance. 7 (context nautical English) a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spar. 8 A mallet. 9 A tamping iron. 10 A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.

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WordNet
driver

  1. n. the operator of a motor vehicle [ant: nondriver]

  2. someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle

  3. a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver

  4. (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device [syn: device driver]

  5. a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee [syn: number one wood]

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Wikipedia
Driver

Driver may refer to:

Driver (video game series)

Driver is a series of mission-based action-adventure video games developed by Reflections Interactive (now Ubisoft Reflections), and originally published by GT Interactive, later by Atari and now by Ubisoft. The gameplay consists of a mixture of action-adventure and driving in open world environments. Since the series began in 1999, there have been five main installments released.

As of August 2011, the series has sold more than 16 million units worldwide.

Driver (video game)

Driver (known as Driver: You Are the Wheelman in North America), is a action/ driving video game developed by Reflections Interactive and published by GT Interactive Software for the PlayStation. It was released in North America on June 30, 1999; in Europe on July 2; and in Japan on March 9, 2000. It is the first game in the Driver series.

Initially, the game was released only for the PlayStation, but later, a Microsoft Windows port of the original PlayStation version was released in North America on October 11, 1999, and in Europe later on. In May 2000, a remake developed by Crawfish Interactive and published by Infogrames was released for the Game Boy Color. This version featured a top-down view, and fewer missions. A Mac port was released in North America in December 2000. The game was re-released on the PlayStation Network on October 14, 2008, and a remake developed and published by Gameloft, with voice acting and enhanced graphics, was released for iOS on December 8, 2009.

Driver (sail)

A driver is a kind of sail used on some sailboats. Smaller than a fore and after spanker on a square rigger, a driver is tied to the same spars.

Driver (surname)

Driver is an English occupational surname meaning the driver of horses or oxen attached to a cart or plough, or of loose cattle. It is recorded since the thirteenth century.

Driver (rank)

Driver (Dvr) was a military rank used in the British Army and the armies of other Commonwealth countries. It was equivalent to the rank of private.

The rank was initially used in the Royal Artillery for the men who drove the teams of horses which pulled the guns. It was phased out after the First World War (when all Royal Artillerymen of the lowest rank were redesignated as gunners). It was also used in the Royal Australian Artillery and Royal Canadian Artillery.

It was also used by all the private-equivalents of the Royal Army Service Corps and later the Royal Corps of Transport, no matter what their trade. When the RCT amalgamated to form the Royal Logistic Corps in 1993 the rank finally disappeared from the British Army.

Category:Military ranks of the British Army Category:Military ranks of Australia

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Usage examples of "driver".

Sea and sky chased one another across the curve of his canopy, and then he cut in his afterburner and the kick slammed his seat into his back with pile driver force.

Mess waiter, did that evening, with the help of Aircraftwoman Janet Marsden, motor-transport driver, steal from the aforesaid Mess one seven-pound tin of butter, three seven-pound tins of marmalade, eighteen pounds of bacon and twenty-eight eggs.

The traffic was bumper-to-bumper on Alii Drive, jammed up by a crowd of thugs who had swarmed onto the road to stomp the driver of a motorcycle that had gone out of control and plowed into a gang of surfers.

I had been giving instructions to the driver, who claimed never to have set foot in Alsatia, a record he seemed anxious to preserve, until I offered the incentive of an extra two shillings.

But Crump had been the driver of the hackney-coach in Alsatia, that much I knew at once.

It came under heavy guard by New Amazonian standards: six armed women and the driver.

I told the driver to take us to Jebel Amman, where the Inter-Continental is located.

The Marines piled out of the amtrack as the driver shut the engine off.

The girl vanished, and went to the drivers of the gang of prisoners, wished them a merry and pleasant evening, and then hastened back to BentAnat, who anxiously stroked her abundant hair, and asked her why she was so pale.

Flipping through her photos Andi found no Volvos or Ford trucks, but she did have shots of the Mustang coming and going--six grainy photos with the vague shape of driver or driver and passenger.

The driver closed the doors, and Tania ran her hand over the armrest, only to discover that it was really a cellular phone.

For a moment I wanted to continue the fight, say that the crash was not the sort that you could easily walk out of, that as far as I knew there had only been the one driver, and so on.

A truck went by but the front bench was filled not just with the driver but three fetching looking girls as well, while the back was crammed with at least six cattle.

Before he had left Djakarta for Bandung and the resort city of Garut not far from Papandayan in the company of an English-speaking driver, Smith-Ng had begun to distinguish differences among the various races mingled together in Indonesia that his companion had pointed out: the Javanese, the Sundanese, the Balinese, the Buginese, and the Mandonese.

Half a dozen chase cars stood by, ready to track the balloons, two men in each car, the driver and the spotter.