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Predictor vs Driver - What's the difference?

predictor | driver |

As nouns the difference between predictor and driver

is that predictor is something that anticipates, predicts or foretells while driver is one who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.

As a proper noun Driver is

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predictor

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something that anticipates, predicts or foretells.
  • :The rain fall in April is a predictor for the number of mosquitoes in May.
  • :The predictor in the traffic lights control circuit tries to figure out how fast to change the lights.

    • driver

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • 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 * screwdriver

    See also

    * chauffeur * conductor * pilot * rider ----