Driver vs. Operator
Drivernoun
One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
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Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
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A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
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A person who drives some other vehicle.
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(computing) A program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
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(golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
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(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.
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A mallet.
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A tamping iron.
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A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
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A screwdriver.
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One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
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The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a any vehicle.
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An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
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A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:
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The driving wheel of a locomotive.
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The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
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An implement used for driving;
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the operator of a motor vehicle
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someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle
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a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver
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(computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device
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a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee
Operatornoun
One who operates.
Operatornoun
A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to establish temporary network connections.
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(mathematics) A function or other mapping that carries variables defined on a domain into another variable or set of variables in a defined range.
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Chinese whispers.
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(informal) A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.
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A member of a military Special Operations unit.
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(computing) The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.
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(computing) A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.
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(linguistics) A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.
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One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect.
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One who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments.
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A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator.
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The symbol that expresses the operation to be performed; - called also facient.
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A person who operates a telephone switchboard.
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A person who schemes and maneuvers adroitly or deviously to achieve his/her purposes.
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(mathematics) a symbol that represents a function from functions to functions;
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an agent that operates some apparatus or machine;
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someone who owns or operates a business;
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a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties
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a speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets
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a person who operates equipment or a machine
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a person who works at the switchboard of a telephone exchange
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a person or company that runs a business
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a person who acts in a shrewd or manipulative way
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a symbol or function denoting an operation (e.g. ×, +).
