Driver vs Incentive - What's the difference?
driver | incentive |
One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive .
Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive .
A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
A person who drives some other vehicle.
(computing) A program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
(golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
(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.
Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= A bonus or reward, often monetary, to work harder.
Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.
* Dr. H. More
Serving to kindle or set on fire.
* Milton
As nouns the difference between driver and incentive
is that driver is one who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive while incentive is something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.As a proper noun Driver
is {{surname|lang=en}.As an adjective incentive is
inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.driver
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* back-seat driver * driver-ant * driver-boom * driverless * driverside * driver's license * driver transistor * driver tube * driver valve * driver-yard * in the driver's seat * pile-driver * screwdriverSee also
* chauffeur * conductor * pilot * rider ----incentive
English
(wikipedia incentive)Noun
(en noun)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
Antonyms
* disincentiveDerived terms
* incentivise/incentivize, tax incentiveAdjective
(en adjective)- Competency is the most incentive to industry.
- Part incentive reed / Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire.