Driver (n.) One who, or that which, drives |
Driver (n.) The person who drives beasts or a carriage |
Driver (n.) An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work. |
Driver (n.) 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: |
Driver (n.) The driving wheel of a locomotive. |
Driver (n.) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier. |
Driver (n.) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone. |
Driver (n.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff |
Fail (v. i.) To be wanting |
Fail (v. i.) To be affected with want |
Fail (v. i.) To fall away |
Fail (v. i.) To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc. |
Fail (v. i.) To perish |
Fail (v. i.) To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc. |
Fail (v. i.) To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired |
Fail (v. i.) To err in judgment |
Fail (v. i.) To become unable to meet one's engagements |
Fail (v. t.) To be wanting to |
Fail (v. t.) To miss of attaining |
Fail (v. i.) Miscarriage |
Fail (v. i.) Death |
Screw-driver (n.) A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw. |
Stake-driver (n.) The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) |
Wear (n.) Same as Weir. |
Wear (v. t.) To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side |
Wear (v. t.) To carry or bear upon the person |
Wear (v. t.) To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner |
Wear (v. t.) To use up by carrying or having upon one's self |
Wear (v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like |
Wear (v. t.) To cause or make by friction or wasting |
Wear (v. t.) To form or shape by, or as by, attrition. |
Wear (v. i.) To endure or suffer use |
Wear (v. i.) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used |
Wear (n.) The act of wearing, or the state of being worn |
Wear (n.) The thing worn |
Wear (n.) A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like. |
Wear (n.) A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish. |
Wear (n.) A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water. |
wear wearing | the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment, she bought it for everyday wear |
American bittern stake driver Botaurus lentiginosus | a kind of bittern |
army ant driver ant legionary ant | tropical nomadic ant that preys mainly on other insects |
clothing article of clothing vesture wear wearable habiliment | a covering designed to be worn on a person's body |
driver number one wood | a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee |
fail-safe | a mechanism capable of returning to a safe state in case there is a failure or malfunction |
handwear hand wear | clothing for the hands |
leisure wear | informal clothing designed to be worn when you are relaxing |
pile driver | a machine that drives piling into the ground |
ready-to-wear | ready-made clothing, she couldn't find anything in ready-to-wear that she liked |
seat belt seatbelt | a safety belt used in a car or plane to hold you in your seat in case of an accident |
sportswear athletic wear activewear | attire worn for sport or for casual wear |
wash-and-wear | a fabric treated to be easily washable and to require no ironing |
driver's license driver's licence driving license driving licence | a license authorizing the bearer to drive a motor vehicle |
driver device driver | (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device |
backseat driver | a meddler who insists on giving unwanted advice |
busman bus driver | someone who drives a bus |
designated driver | the member of a party who is designated to refrain from alcohol and so is sober when it is time to drive home |
driver | the operator of a motor vehicle |
driver | a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver |
driver | someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle |
engineer locomotive engineer railroad engineer engine driver | the operator of a railway locomotive |
muleteer mule skinner mule driver skinner | a worker who drives mules |
owner-driver | a motorist who owns the car that he she drives |
racer race driver automobile driver | someone who drives racing cars at high speeds |
slave driver | a supervisor of slaves at work |
slave driver Simon Legree | a cruel employer who demands excessive work from the employees |
tanker tank driver | a soldier who drives a tank |
taxidriver taximan cabdriver cabman cabby hack driver hack-driver livery driver | someone who drives a taxi for a living |
teamster trucker truck driver | someone who drives a truck as an occupation |
test driver | a driver who drives a motor vehicle to evaluate its performance |
depreciation wear and tear | decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use |
wear | impairment resulting from long use, the tires showed uneven wear |
wear | have or show an appearance of, wear one's hair in a certain way |
wear bear | have on one's person, He wore a red ribbon, bear a scar |
wear put on get into don assume | put clothing on one's body, What should I wear today?, He put on his best suit for the wedding, The princess donned a long blue dress, The queen assumed the stately robes, He got into his jeans |
wear have on | be dressed in, She was wearing yellow that day |
c tire wear upon tire out wear weary jade wear out outwear wear down fag out fag fatigue c | exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress, We wore ourselves out on this hike |
fail | get worse, Her health is declining |
erode gnaw gnaw at eat at wear away | become ground down or deteriorate, Her confidence eroded |
wear on | pass slowly (of time), The day wore on |
fail go bad give way die give out conk out go break break down | stop operating or functioning, The engine finally went, The car died on the road, The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town, The coffee maker broke, The engine failed on the way to town, her eyesight went after the accident |
wear wear off wear out wear down wear thin | deteriorate through use or stress, The constant friction wore out the cloth |
fail run out give out | prove insufficient, The water supply for the town failed after a long drought |
wear away wear off | diminish, as by friction, Erosion wore away the surface |
break wear wear out bust fall apart | go to pieces, The lawn mower finally broke, The gears wore out, The old chair finally fell apart completely |
whittle away whittle down wear away | cut away in small pieces |
fail betray | disappoint, prove undependable to, abandon, forsake, His sense of smell failed him this time, His strength finally failed him, His children failed him in the crisis |
tack wear round | turn into the wind, The sailors decided to tack the boat, The boat tacked |
wear ship | turn away from the wind, The sailors decided it was time to wear ship |