driver

See also: Driver

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹaɪ.və(ɹ)/
• (US) enPR: drīʹvər, IPA^(key): /ˈdɹaɪvɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)

Noun

driver (plural 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 factor contributing to something; a cause.
11. A mallet.
12. A tamping iron.
13. A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
14. 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 […]

15. (audio) A device that converts an electrical signal to sound waves; the principal component of loudspeakers and headphones.
16. (chiefly in the plural) A driving wheel.
    • 1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, in Railway Magazine, page 353:

      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.

Derived terms

• 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
• drink-driver
• drink driver
• driver ant
• driver-ant
• driver-boom
• driveress
• driver fatigue
• driverless
• driver licence
• driverly
• driver-only operation
• driver reviver
• driverside
• driver's license
• driver transistor
• driver tube
• driver valve
• driver-yard
• 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
• nutdriver
• nut driver
• oncodriver
• 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

Descendants

• → Japanese: ドライバー (doraibā)
  • → Hakka: 多拉把 (tô-lai-pá, tô-lai-pà, tò-lái-pà)
  • → Hokkien: 螺賴把／螺赖把 (lo͘-lài-bà)
• → Hokkien: 嚦峇／呖峇 (lē-bā)
• → Scottish Gaelic: draibhear

Translations

one who drives something, e.g. cattle

• Arabic: سَائِق (ar) (sāʔiq)
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} вода́ч (bg) m (vodáč)
• Catalan: conductor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 驅趕動物者／驱赶动物者 (qūgǎn dòngwù zhě)

• Danish: chauffør (da) c
• Finnish: ajaja (fi)
• French: conducteur (fr) m, conductrice (fr) f, traqueur (fr) m, traqueuse (fr) f
• German: Treiber (de) m, Treiberin (de) f
• Greek: οδηγός (el) m or f (odigós)

  Ancient Greek: ἐλατήρ m (elatḗr)

• Hindi: चालक (hi) m (cālak)
• Hungarian: hajtó (hu), fogathajtó (hu)
• Ingrian: ajaja
• Irish: tiománaí m
• Italian: conducente (it) m
• Kamba: ndeleba
• Kikuyu: derefa
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ajovan (ku) n or c

• Luhya: omudereva
• Luo: dreva
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} возач (mk) m (vozač)
• Manx: immanagh m
• Maori: kaitaraiwa (a vehicle), kaiwhiu (stock or animals)
• Meru: ndereva
• Navajo: naʼałbąąsii
• Portuguese: condutor (pt) m, condutora (pt) f
• Punjabi: ډرېور m
• Romanian: conducător (ro) m
• Russian: пого́нщик (ru) m (pogónščik), пого́нщица (ru) f (pogónščica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: го̀нӣч m

  Roman: gònīč (sh) m

• Spanish: conductor (es) m, conductora f
• Swahili: dereva (sw), mwendeshaji
• Swedish: förare (sv) c
• Telugu: సారథి (te) (sārathi)
• Thai: คนขับ (kon-kàp), ผู้ขับ (pûu-kàp)
• Ukrainian: пого́нич m (pohónyč), пого́нець m (pohónecʹ)
• Welsh: gyrrwr (cy) m

something that drives something

• Catalan: conductor (ca) m
• Finnish: ajuri (fi), ajojuhta (figuratively)
• Greek: οδηγός (el) m or f (odigós)
• Hindi: चालक (hi) m (cālak)
• Hungarian: ösztönző (hu), hajtóerő (hu), mozgatórugó (hu), ösztönzőerő, motor (hu)
• Italian: aspirazione (it) f, desiderio (it) m
• Portuguese: condutor (pt) m
• Russian: дви́житель (ru) m (dvížitelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: pokretač (sh) m, šofer (sh) m, šoferka f

• Swahili: dereva (sw)

person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus

• Albanian: shofer (sq) m, makinist m
• Arabic: سَائِق (ar) m (sāʔiq), سَوَّاق m (sawwāq)

  Egyptian Arabic: سواق m (sawwāʔ)

  Hijazi Arabic: سَوَّاق m (sawwāg)

• Armenian: վարորդ (hy) (varord)
• Azerbaijani: sürücü (az), şofer, ranəndə (South Azerbaijani)
• Belarusian: кіро́ўца m (kiróŭca), вадзі́цель m (vadzícjelʹ), шафёр m (šafjór)
• Bikol Central: drayber
• Bulgarian: шофьо́р (bg) m (šofjór)
• Burmese: ယာဉ်မောင်း (my) (yanymaung:)
• Catalan: conductor (ca) m, xofer (ca) m
• Cebuano: drayber (tl)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 司機／司机 (si¹ gei¹), 駕駛員／驾驶员 (gaa³ sai² jyun⁴), 駕駛者／驾驶者 (gaa³ sai² ze²), 柴可夫 (yue) (caai⁴ ho² fu¹) (humorous)

  Mandarin: 司機／司机 (zh) (sījī), 駕駛員／驾驶员 (zh) (jiàshǐyuán), 駕駛者／驾驶者 (jiàshǐzhě)

• Czech: řidič (cs) m, řidička (cs) f, šofér (cs) m
• Danish: chauffør (da) c
• Dutch: bestuurder (nl) m, chauffeur (nl) m
• Esperanto: aŭtomobilisto, aŭtisto
• Estonian: juht (et), autojuht
• Faroese: bilførari m (car), bussførari m (bus), motorsúkklistur m (motorcycle), lastbilførari m (truck)
• Finnish: kuljettaja (fi), ajaja (fi), kuski (fi) (colloquial)
• French: conducteur (fr) m, conductrice (fr) f, chauffeur (fr) m, chauffeuse (fr) f
• Georgian: მძღოლი (mʒɣoli)
• German: Fahrer (de) m, Fahrerin (de) f
• Greek: οδηγός (el) m or f (odigós)
• Greenlandic: biilertoq
• Hebrew: נַהָג (he) m (nahág), נֶהָג (he) m (nehág), נהגת f (naheget)
• Hindi: चालक (hi) m (cālak), ड्राइवर (hi) m (ḍrāivar)
• Hungarian: sofőr (hu), vezető (hu), járművezető (hu), gépjárművezető (hu)
• Icelandic: ökumaður m, bílstjóri m
• Indonesian: sopir (id)
• Ingrian: ajaja
• Irish: tiománaí m
• Italian: autista (it) m or f, guidatore (it) m, guidatrice f
• Japanese: 運転手 (ja) (うんてんしゅ, untenshu), 運転者 (ja) (うんてんしゃ, untensha), ドライバ (ja) (doraiba), ドライバー (ja) (doraibā)
• Kazakh: жүргізуші (kk) (jürgızuşı), шопыр (şopyr)
• Khmer: អ្នកបើកឡាន (nĕək baək laan), តៃកុង (tay kong)
• Korean: 운전사(運轉士) (ko) (unjeonsa), 운전자(運轉者) (ko) (unjeonja), 기사(技士) (ko) (gisa), 운전기사(運轉技士) (ko) (unjeon'gisa), 드라이버 (ko) (deuraibeo)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: لێخوڕ (lêxurr), شۆفێر (ckb) (şofêr)

  Northern Kurdish: ajovan (ku) m or f, ajokar (ku) m or f, şofêr (ku) m or f, sayêq (ku) m or f

• Kyrgyz: жүргүзүүчү (jürgüzüücü), айдоочу (ky) (aydoocu), шофёр (ky) (şofyor)
• Lao: ຄົນຂັບລົດ (khon khap lot)
• Latin: auriga m
• Latvian: vadītājs (lv) m, šoferis m
• Lithuanian: vairuotojas m, šoferis m
• Macedonian: возач (mk) m (vozač), шофер m (šofer)
• Malay: pemandu (ms), drebar
• Maltese: sewwieq m, sewwieqa f, xufier m, xufiera f
• Maore Comorian: shofera class 5/6
• Maori: kaitaraiwa
• Marathi: चालक m (cālak), चालिका f (cālikā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: жолооч (mn) (žolooč)

• Norman: cacheux m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fører m, sjåfør (no) m

  Nynorsk: førar m, sjåfør m

• Pannonian Rusyn: вожач m (vožač)
• Pashto: ډرايور m (ḍrāywar), ډرېور m (ḍrewar), موټروان m (moṭarwān)
• Persian:

  Dari: موتَرْران (motarrān)

  Iranian Persian: رانَنْدِه (fa) (rânande), شوفِر (fa) (šufer)

• Polish: kierowca (pl) m, szofer (pl) m, automobilista (pl) m (archaic), automobilistka f (archaic)
• Portuguese: motorista (pt) m or f, condutor (pt) m, condutora (pt) f
• Romanian: șofer (ro) m, conducător auto m
• Russian: води́тель (ru) m (vodítelʹ), води́тельница (ru) f (vodítelʹnica), шофёр (ru) m (šofjór)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: во̀за̄ч m, воза̀чица f

  Roman: vòzāč (sh) m, vozàčica (sh) f

• Slovak: vodič m, šofér m
• Slovene: voznik (sl) m, šofer m
• Spanish: conductor (es) m, conductora f, chofer (es) m
• Swahili: dereva (sw)
• Swedish: förare (sv) c, chaufför (sv) c
• Tagalog: drayber (tl)
• Tajik: ронанда (tg) (ronanda), шофёр (tg) (šofyor)
• Telugu: చోదకుడు (te) (cōdakuḍu)
• Thai: คนขับรถ, คนขับ (kon-kàp)
• Tibetan: ཁ་ལོ་བ (kha lo ba)
• Turkish: sürücü (tr), şoför (tr), haydavcı, yöndemci, kıvcı
• Turkmen: sürügi, şofýor
• Ukrainian: воді́й m (vodíj), шофе́р m (šofér)
• Urdu: ڈْرائِیوَر m (ḍrāīvar), ڈْرائِوَر m (ḍrāivar)
• Uyghur: شوپۇر (shopur)
• Uzbek: haydovchi (uz), shofyor (uz)
• Vietnamese: người lái, tài xế (vi)
• Welsh: gyrrwr (cy) m
• Yiddish: שאָפֿער m (shofer)

person who drives some other vehicle

• Arabic: سَائِق (ar) m (sāʔiq)

  Hijazi Arabic: سَوَّاق m (sawwāg)

• Armenian: վարորդ (hy) (varord)
• Azerbaijani: sürücü (az)
• Catalan: conductor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 司機／司机 (si¹ gei¹), 駕駛員／驾驶员 (gaa³ sai² jyun⁴), 駕駛者／驾驶者 (gaa³ sai² ze²), 柴可夫 (yue) (caai⁴ ho² fu¹)

  Mandarin: 司機／司机 (zh) (sījī), 駕駛員／驾驶员 (zh) (jiàshǐyuán), 駕駛者／驾驶者 (jiàshǐzhě)

• Czech: řidič (cs) m
• Dutch: bestuurder (nl) m
• Estonian: juht (et)
• Finnish: ajuri (fi), kuski (fi) (colloquial)
• French: conducteur (fr) m, conductrice (fr) f
• German: Fahrer (de) m, Fahrerin (de) f
• Greek: οδηγός (el) m or f (odigós), (railway) μηχανοδηγός (el) m or f (michanodigós)
• Hebrew: נַהָג (he) m (nahág), נֶהָג (he) m (nehág), נהגת f (naheget)
• Hindi: चालक (hi) (cālak), ड्राइवर (hi) (ḍrāivar)
• Hungarian: vezető (hu), (coachman, carter, wagoner) kocsis (hu)
• Ingrian: ajaja
• Irish: tiománaí m
• Japanese: 運転手 (ja) (うんてんしゅ, untenshu), 運転者 (ja) (うんてんしゃ, untensha), ドライバー (ja) (doraibā)
• Korean: 운전사(運轉士) (ko) (unjeonsa), 운전자(運轉者) (ko) (unjeonja), 기사(技士) (ko) (gisa), 드라이버 (ko) (deuraibeo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ajovan (ku) m or f, ajokar (ku) m or f, şofêr (ku) m or f, sayêq (ku) m or f

• Maori: taraiwa, kaitaraiwa
• Marathi: चालक m (cālak), चालिका f (cālikā)
• Portuguese: piloto (pt) m, pilota (pt) f
• Romanian: pilot (ro) m
• Russian: води́тель (ru) m (vodítelʹ), води́тельница (ru) f (vodítelʹnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: во̀за̄ч m, воза̀чица f

  Roman: vòzāč (sh) m, vozàčica (sh) f

• Spanish: conductor (es) m, conductora f
• Swahili: dereva (sw)
• Telugu: డ్రైవర్ (te) (ḍraivar)
• Turkish: sürücü (tr)
• Ukrainian: водій m (vodij)
• Urdu: ڈْرائِیوَر m (ḍrāīvar), ڈْرائِوَر m (ḍrāivar)

program acting as interface between an application and hardware

• Armenian: դրայվեր (drayver)
• Azerbaijani: sürücü (az)
• Belarusian: дра́йвер m (drájvjer), дра́йвэр m (drájver)
• Bulgarian: дра́йвър m (drájvǎr), дра́йвер (bg) m (drájver)
• Catalan: controlador de dispositiu m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 驅動程式／驱动程式 (keoi¹ dung⁶ cing⁴ sik¹), 驅動程序／驱动程序 (keoi¹ dung⁶ cing⁴ zeoi⁶)

  Mandarin: 驅動程式／驱动程式 (qūdòng chéngshì), 驅動程序／驱动程序 (qūdòng chéngxù), 驅動／驱动 (zh) (qūdòng)

• Czech: ovladač (cs) m
• Dutch: stuurprogramma (nl) n
• Esperanto: pelilo
• Estonian: draiver
• Finnish: ajuri (fi)
• French: pilote (fr) m
• Georgian: დრაივერი (draiveri)
• German: Treiber (de) m
• Greek: οδηγός (el) m (odigós)
• Hindi: ड्राइवर (hi) m (ḍrāivar)
• Hungarian: illesztőprogram (hu) (see also its synonyms there)
• Icelandic: rekill (is) m
• Irish: tiománaí m
• Italian: driver (it) m
• Japanese: ドライバー (ja) (doraibā), ドライバ (ja) (doraiba)
• Kazakh: драйвер (draiver)
• Korean: 드라이버 (ko) (deuraibeo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ajok (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: драйвер (drayver)
• Latvian: draiveris m, dzinis m
• Lithuanian: tvarkyklė f, draiveris m
• Macedonian: двигател m (dvigatel)
• Malay: pemacu
• Maltese: drajver
• Maori: atekōkiri, pūtāhono
• Marathi: ड्रायव्हर (ḍrāyavhar)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: драйвэр (drajver)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: driver (no) m, driverfil m or f

• Polish: sterownik (pl) m, driver (pl) m, drajwer m
• Portuguese: controlador (pt), driver (pt) m
• Russian: дра́йвер (ru) m (drájver)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дра̀јвер m, упра̀вља̄чкӣ про̀грам m

  Roman: dràjver (sh) m, upràvljāčkī prògram m

• Slovak: ovládač m
• Spanish: controlador (es) m
• Swahili: dereva (sw)
• Swedish: drivrutin (sv) c
• Turkish: sürücü (tr)
• Ukrainian: дра́йвер m (drájver)
• Urdu: ڈْرائِیوَر m (ḍrāīvar), ڈْرائِوَر m (ḍrāivar)
• Welsh: gyrrwr (cy) m

golf club

• Finnish: draiveri (fi)
• German: Driver (de) m
• Hungarian: golfütő (hu)
• Irish: maide mór m, tiománaí m
• Korean: 드라이버 (ko) (deuraibeo)
• Maori: haupōro haukuru, haurākau kōkiri
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: golf palica za duge udarce

• Swedish: driver (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} xufier, ^{(please verify)} sewwieq
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} conductor (es) m, ^{(please verify)} manejador m (Mexico)
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} dereva (sw)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} şöför (tr) m

See also

• chauffeur
• conductor
• pilot
• rider

 

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English driver.

Alternative forms

• driveur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʁaj.vœʁ/

Noun

driver m (plural drivers)

1. (golf) driver

Etymology 2

Adapted borrowing of English drive +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʁaj.ve/

Verb

driver

1. (golf outside Louisiana, Cajun) to drive

Conjugation

Conjugation of driver (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	driver
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	drivant /dʁaj.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		drivé /dʁaj.ve/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	drive /dʁajv/	drives /dʁajv/	drive /dʁajv/	drivons /dʁaj.vɔ̃/	drivez /dʁaj.ve/	drivent /dʁajv/
	imperfect	drivais /dʁaj.vɛ/	drivais /dʁaj.vɛ/	drivait /dʁaj.vɛ/	drivions /dʁaj.vjɔ̃/	driviez /dʁaj.vje/	drivaient /dʁaj.vɛ/
	past historic2	drivai /dʁaj.ve/	drivas /dʁaj.va/	driva /dʁaj.va/	drivâmes /dʁaj.vam/	drivâtes /dʁaj.vat/	drivèrent /dʁaj.vɛʁ/
	future	driverai /dʁaj.və.ʁe/	driveras /dʁaj.və.ʁa/	drivera /dʁaj.və.ʁa/	driverons /dʁaj.və.ʁɔ̃/	driverez /dʁaj.və.ʁe/	driveront /dʁaj.və.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	driverais /dʁaj.və.ʁɛ/	driverais /dʁaj.və.ʁɛ/	driverait /dʁaj.və.ʁɛ/	driverions /dʁaj.və.ʁjɔ̃/	driveriez /dʁaj.və.ʁje/	driveraient /dʁaj.və.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	drive /dʁajv/	drives /dʁajv/	drive /dʁajv/	drivions /dʁaj.vjɔ̃/	driviez /dʁaj.vje/	drivent /dʁajv/
	imperfect2	drivasse /dʁaj.vas/	drivasses /dʁaj.vas/	drivât /dʁaj.va/	drivassions /dʁaj.va.sjɔ̃/	drivassiez /dʁaj.va.sje/	drivassent /dʁaj.vas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	drive /dʁajv/	—	drivons /dʁaj.vɔ̃/	drivez /dʁaj.ve/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “driver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• verdir

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English driver.

Noun

driver m or f by sense (invariable)

1. driver (in a trotting race; tennis player good at driving)

Noun

driver m (invariable)

1. driver (golf club; computer module)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

driver

1. present tense of drive

Derived terms

• (of the noun) pådriver

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English driver.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdɾaj.veʁ/

Noun

driver m or f (plural drivers)

1. (computing) driver (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)

   Synonym: controlador

   • 2008, Sistemas Operacionais com Java, Sistemas Operacionais com Java, Elsevier Brasil, →ISBN, page 311:

     As informações de boot podem ser armazenadas em uma partição separada. Mais uma vez, ela tem seu próprio formato, pois, no momento do boot, o sistema ainda não carregou drivers de dispositivo do sistema de arquivos e, por isso, não pode interpretar o formato do sistema de arquivos.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English driver.

Noun

driver c

1. (golf) a driver (club)

Declension

Declension of driver

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	driver	drivers
	definite	drivern	driverns
plural	indefinite	drivers, drivrar	drivers, drivrars
	definite	drivrarna	drivrarnas

See also

• putter

Verb

driver

1. present indicative of driva

References

• driver in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• driver in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• vrider