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driver [n]

1)	the operator of a motor vehicle

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2)	someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle

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worker drive charioteer coachman lasher mahout teamster waggoner

3)	a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver

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golf_player drive

4)	(computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device

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device_driver

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service_program computer_science drive

5)	a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee

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number_one_wood

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wood drive

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

1. device driver.

2. The main loop of an event-processing program; the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution.

3. In the TeX world and the computerised typesetting world in general, a program that translates some device-independent or other common format to something a real device can actually understand.

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