driverとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹaɪ.və(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) enPR: drīʹvər, IPA^(key): /ˈdɹaɪvɚ/
• 韻: -aɪvə(ɹ)

名詞

driver (複数形 drivers)

1. One who drives something, in any sense of the verb drive.
   • 2016, John Swain, Digging Up The Pitmen (page 164)

     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. Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb drive.
   • 2014, Bridgette Wessels, Exploring Social Change: Process and Context (page 106)

     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.

   • 2020 December 16, “Network News: "Robust case" for Fawley branch reopening”, in Rail, page 14:

     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.

3. A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.

   The requirement that every moving vehicle or combination of vehicles shall have a driver is deemed to be satisfied while the vehicle is using an automated driving system which complies with domestic technical regulations, and any applicable international legal instrument, […] and domestic legislation governing operation.

4. A person who drives some other vehicle.
5. (aviation, slang) A pilot (person who flies aircraft).
7. (computing) A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
8. (golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
   • 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major

     The brassey much resembled the driver, but the iron opened out quite a new field of practice; […]

9. (nautical) a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
10. A mallet.
11. A tamping iron.
12. A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
13. A screwdriver.
    • 1996, Popular Mechanics (volume 173, number 12)

      Among the driver and screw types available, you'll find several cross-slot varieties including the Reed & Prince […]

派生語

派生した語

• → Scottish Gaelic: draibhear

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