dove

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /dəʊv/    美 /doʊv/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than three hundred species of the family Columbidae. countable
    — Dove's brains have been prepared by chefs for amorous expectations.
  2. A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict. countable
    — On the left are the activist Vietniks, eager to protest the war; next are the doves, who oppose the U.S. role but shun demonstrations; and in the middle are the apathetics, who simply are not concerned enough to think through their own stand.
  3. A term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle. countable
    — O my dove, […] let me hear thy voice.
  4. A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird. countable,uncountable
  5. Ellipsis of love dove (“a tablet of the drug ecstasy”). abbreviation,alt-of,countable,ellipsis,slang
动词 v.
  1. simple past of dive Canada,US,dialectal,form-of,past
    — 2007: Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide, §: Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire, page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; →ISBN When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove, Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude.
  2. past participle of dive form-of,nonstandard,participle,past

词形变化

doves plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Asian emerald dove Barbary dove bar-shouldered dove beautiful fruit dove blue ground dove collared dove cuckoo dove cuckoo-dove cushat dove cushat-dove dead dove diamond dove dovecot dovecote Dove Creek dove-eyed dove gray dove grey dovehouse dovekie dovelet dovelike doveling dovely dove of peace dove orchid dove plant doveplum dove shell doveship dovetail dove tree dove weed dovish eared dove Fleet Street dove fruit dove fruit-dove Galapagos dove ground dove Inca dove laughing dove little brown dove lovey-dovey moaning dove mourning dove Nicobar dove Pacific dove palm dove peaceful dove Philippine cuckoo-dove quail dove quail-dove rain dove release dove ringdove ring dove ringed dove ringneck dove rock dove Samoan dove scaled dove sea dove Senegal dove Socorro dove soiled dove stockdove stock dove sucking-dove tambourine dove tobacco dove tree-dove turtledove turtle-dove turtle dove vinaceous dove West Peruvian dove white-winged dove wood dove zebra dove zenaida dove especially Zenaida aurita)

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-der.?
Proto-Germanic *dūbaną?
Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ
Proto-West Germanic *dūbā
Old English *dūfe
Middle English douve
English dove
From Middle English douve, dove, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove, pigeon”).
Cognate with Scots doo, dow, Saterland Frisian Duuwe, West Frisian do, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, Sranan Tongo doifi, German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch Low Saxon duve, doeve, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Yiddish טויב (toyb), Gothic *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (*dubō).
词源 2
A modern formation of the strong conjugation, by analogy with drive → drove and weave → wove.
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