different between steersman vs driver

English

Etymology

From steer +? -s- +? -man.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?st??z.m?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sti?z.m?n/, /?st??z.m?n/

Noun

steersman (plural steersmen)

1. (nautical) One who steers a ship or other vessel; the helmsman.

   • And as for a tiller, the whale-boat never admits of any such effeminacy; and therefore as in gamming a complete boat’s crew must leave the ship, and hence as the boat steerer or harpooneer is of the number, that subordinate is the steersman upon the occasion, and the captain, having no place to sit in, is pulled off to his visit all standing like a pine tree.

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “Regatta,”^[1]

     The Indian canoe races were the most exciting of all the Regatta. Ten paddles dipped as one paddle, ten men bent as one man, while the steersman kept time for them with grunting bows.

Synonyms

• (one who steers): helmsman, sternsman

Coordinate terms

• (gender) steerswoman

Related terms

• steer

Translations

Anagrams

• mare's nest, mare's-nest, stearsmen

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