different between drier vs driver

English

Alternative forms

• dryer

Usage notes

In both British and American English, the spelling drier is preferred for the comparative adjective and dryer for the noun.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?a??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?a??/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English driere, dreyere (“one who dries”), equivalent to dry +? -er (“agent suffix”).

Noun

drier (plural driers)

1. (chiefly Britain, Canada) Alternative spelling of dryer

Etymology 2

dry +? -er (“comparative suffix”)

Adjective

drier

1. comparative form of dry: more dry

Anagrams

• Rider, direr, reird, rider

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): /?d?a?.v?(?)/
• (US) enPR: dr??v?r, IPA^(key): /?d?a?v?/
• Rhymes: -a?v?(r)

Noun

driver (plural drivers)

1. One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to 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 to 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.
3. A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
4. A person who drives some other vehicle.
6. (computing) A program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
7. (golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
8. (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.
9. A mallet.
10. A tamping iron.
11. A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
12. 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 […]

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• chauffeur
• conductor
• pilot
• rider

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English driver.

Alternative forms

• driveur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?aj.vœ?/

Noun

driver m (plural drivers)

1. (golf) driver

Etymology 2

From English drive +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?aj.ve/

Verb

driver

1. (golf outside Louisiana, Cajun French) to drive

Conjugation

Anagrams

• verdir

Further reading

• “driver” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English driver.

Noun

driver m or f (invariable)

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

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

Borrowed from English driver.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?d?aj.ve?/

Noun

driver m (plural drivers)

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

   Synonym: controlador

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:driver.

Swedish

Verb

driver

1. present tense of driva.

Anagrams

• vrider