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driver

/drahy-ver/US // ˈdraɪ vər //UK // (ˈdraɪvə) //

驱动程序,驱动器,驱车,驾

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that drives.
    • : a person who drives a vehicle; coachman, chauffeur, etc.
    • : a person who drives an animal or animals, as a drover or cowboy.
    • : Also called number one wood. Golf. a club with a wooden head whose face has almost no slope, for hitting long, low drives from the tee.
    • : Machinery. a part that transmits force or motion.the member of a pair of connected pulleys, gears, etc., that is nearer to the power source.
    • : Computers. software or hardware that controls the interface between a computer and a peripheral device.
    • : Railroads. driving wheel.
    • : British. a locomotive engineer.
    • : Audio. the part of a loudspeaker that transforms the electrical signal into sound.the entire loudspeaker.
    • : Nautical. a jib-headed spanker sail.a designation given to one of the masts abaft the mizzen on a sailing vessel having more than three masts, either the fifth or sixth from forward.Compare pusher, spanker.

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Examples

  • Looking at cost drivers and how they link with revenue is a strategic exercise in itself, as it highlights what elements clients are willing to pay for, where to optimize costs, or what new services can appear.

  • Its Tasty and Goodful verticals have been the primary drivers of the company’s licensing business, with a line of cookware under Tasty that’s sold at Walmart.

  • For starters, it’s not Uber that owns its cars—its drivers do.

  • That included training dogs to sniff out dead wild boar, stockpiling electric fences along the eastern border and urging drivers not to toss ham-sandwich scraps out the window.

  • So, you’d have buses that would— and the bus drivers would be tested, and the buses would be wiped down.

  • Thankfully there were no casualties—the driver managed to stop the train immediately.

  • He also was working to recruit Castro as a driver for a drug load.

  • So I asked the driver to honk the horn, which he does, and Rod looks over.

  • Abraham, a yellow cab driver and student, feels that blacks are targeted unfairly by the police.

  • Public employee unions are a little-acknowledged driver of this conflict.

  • But, when the car came thundering down, it was crammed to the step; with a melancholy gesture, the driver declined her signal.

  • The driver must at all times have his car under reasonable control so that he can stop in time to avoid injury.

  • If there be no facilities for stopping for the night, a driver is not negligent should he proceed through the fog.

  • It was being driven very rapidly, but very skillfully, and the car was empty save for the driver.

  • The carriages are half-covered ones, with seats for two, and are drawn by a pair of mules, on one of which the driver rides.