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Enabler vs Driver - What's the difference?

enabler | driver |

As nouns the difference between enabler and driver

is that enabler is one who helps something to happen 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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enabler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who helps something to happen.
  • One who encourages a bad habit in another (typically drug addiction) by his or her behaviour.
  • One who gives someone else the power to behave in a certain way.

    • See also

    * (projectlink) * co-dependence * provert

    References

    * Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary. English agent nouns

    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 ----