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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
Lance Burton

Meaning of "dove" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DOVE

Old English dūfe (unattested except as a feminine proper name); related to Old Saxon dūbva, Old High German tūba.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DOVE

dove  [dʌv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DOVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dove is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DOVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

dove

Columbidae

Pigeons and doves constitute the bird clade Columbidae, that includes about 310 species. Pigeons are stout-bodied birds with short necks, and have short, slender bills with fleshy ceres. Doves feed on seeds, fruits, and plants. This family occurs worldwide, but the greatest variety is in the Indomalaya and Australasia ecozones. In general, the terms "dove" and "pigeon" are used somewhat interchangeably. Pigeon derives from the Latin pipio, for a "peeping" chick, while dove is a Germanic word that refers to the bird's diving flight. In ornithological practice, "dove" tends to be used for smaller species and "pigeon" for larger ones, but this is in no way consistently applied, and historically, the common names for these birds involve a great deal of variation between the terms. The species most commonly referred to as "pigeon" is the feral rock pigeon, common in many cities. Doves and pigeons build relatively flimsy nests – often using sticks and other debris – which may be placed in trees, ledges, or, on the ground, depending on species.

Definition of dove in the English dictionary

The first definition of dove in the dictionary is any of various birds of the family Columbidae, having a heavy body, small head, short legs, and long pointed wings: order Columbiformes. They are typically smaller than pigeons related adjective columbine. Other definition of dove is a gentle or innocent person: used as a term of endearment. Dove is also a greyish-brown colour.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DOVE

dove prion
dove-grey
dovecot
dovecote
doveish
doveishness
dovekey
dovekie
dovelet
dovelike
doven
Dover
Dover sole
Dover´s powder
dovetail
dovetail joint
dovetail saw
dovish
dovishness

WORDS THAT END LIKE DOVE

a cut above
above
approve
cove
drove
fall in love
glove
groove
grove
hove
improve
in love
love
move
on the improve
over and above
prove
remove
stove
the above

Synonyms and antonyms of dove in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DOVE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «dove» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of dove
bolt · crash · dart · dash · descend · dip · drop · duck · fall · header · honky-tonk · joint · jump · leap · lunge · nightclub · nose dive · pitch · plummet · plunge · scurry · snorkel · spring · submerge · swoop

Translation of «dove» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DOVE

Find out the translation of dove to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dove from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dove» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

鸽子
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

paloma
570 millions of speakers

English

dove
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कबूतर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يـَمَامَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

голубь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pombo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঘুঘু
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

colombe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Merpati
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Taube
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハト
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비둘기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dove
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chim bồ câu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

புறா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कबुतरासारखा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

güvercin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

colomba
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gołębica
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

голуб
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

porumbel
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

περιστέρι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

duif
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

duva
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

due
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dove

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DOVE»

The term «dove» is very widely used and occupies the 4.654 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DOVE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dove

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10 QUOTES WITH «DOVE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dove.
1
Patch Adams
At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.
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Shawn Amos
The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute.
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Matt Barr
My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. It's great leverage; we abuse it all the time!
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Wes Borland
I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down...' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?'
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Brooke Burns
I've been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break.
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Lance Burton
The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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Brian P. Cleary
Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.
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Robert Creeley
It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on.
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Max Heindel
In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus' body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.
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Faith Hill
To be honest, I didn't really understand how involved putting a fragrance together could be - or would be. Once I made the choice to actually do it, I just went for it. I just dove in and have really learned a lot about putting a scent together. It's kind of exciting.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOVE»

Discover the use of dove in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dove and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dove
Five years and 33,000 miles later, he returned to home port with a wife and daughter and enough extraordinary experiences to fill this bestselling book, Dove.
Robin L. Graham, 2012
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Lonesome Dove: A Novel
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize— winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant ...
Larry McMurtry, 2010
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Understanding Rita Dove
Understanding Rita Dove serves as a critical introduction to the poetry of this Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, who was also the first African American poet laureate of the United States.
Pat Righelato, 2006
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Return of the Dove
1959 This volume, a biography of that great personality, Nikola Tesla, reveals much of the danger, mystery, conspiracy, & intrigue that reached into the highest places of government & the guarded inner sancta of big industry. the author ...
Margaret Storm, 1996
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The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the ...
As he weaves a fascinating narrative that follows these two rivals and friends from the beginning of the Cold War to its end, Thompson accomplishes something remarkable: he tells the story of our nation during the most dangerous half ...
Nicholas Thompson, 2009
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The Knight and the Dove
Marigold scorns the king's edict and vows she will never marry a lowly earl, so Lord Vincent must call his beloved Megan from the abbey and send her to marry Bracken of Hawkings Crest.
Lori Wick, 2004
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Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography
Mourning Dove was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, a member of the Colville Federated Tribes of eastern Washington State.
Mourning Dove, Jay Miller, 1990
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Benjamin Dove
After being encouraged by his new friend to take a stand for himself and the ones he loves, Benjamin Dove and his friends form the Order of the Red Dragon and find their lives forever changed in the process when their simple childhood games ...
Fridrik Erlings, 2007
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The Silver Dove
The Silver Dove, published four years before Bely's masterpiece Petersburg, is considered the first modern Russian novel.
Andrey Bely, 2000
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Anton the Dove Fancier and Other Tales of the Holocaust
This collection of extraordinary true stories—including nine stories new to this expanded edition— illuminates the experiences of a young Polish boy before World War II, through the gathering storm of Nazism, into the death camps, to ...
Bernard Gotfryd, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DOVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dove is used in the context of the following news items.
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Trial Attorney Austin Dove, Esq. and the New Paid Sick Leave Law
An employee who, on or after July 1, 2015, works in California for 30 or more days within a year from the beginning of employment, is entitled to ... «KTLA, Jul 15»
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RSPB study reveals amazing migration of Titan the turtle dove from …
The migration route of a UK breeding turtle dove has been revealed for the first time by the RSPB – thanks to an East Anglian bird. «Cambridge News, Jul 15»
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Youth Dove Clinic planned in Ted Shanks Conservation Area in …
The Missouri Department of Conservation is planning a Youth Dove Clinic at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 1, at the Ted Shanks Conservation ... «Hannibal Courier, Jul 15»
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Beiersdorf Secures Retrial In Case Over Nivea And Unilever's Dove
Karlsruhe, GERMANY (Alliance News) - In a battle between two global skin-care brands, Dove and Nivea, over who owns a shade of dark blue ... «London South East, Jul 15»
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Application Available for Elbow Slough WMA Opening Weekend …
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is accepting applications for lottery dove hunts on Elbow Slough Wildlife Management Area (WMA) ... «KATC Lafayette News, Jul 15»
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2015 Louisiana dove season's first split to open Sept. 5
BATON ROUGE, La. — The opening split of the 2015 Louisiana dove season in the north zone will open Sept. 5 and run through Sept. 27 if the ... «SunHerald.com, Jul 15»
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Plymouth MP appears half-naked in Dove shower gel advert
The family applied to take part in the advert after Dove Men+Care ... on the YouTube channel of US Dove Men+Care but only surfaced in the ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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MDWFP Sets 2015-16 Dove Season
This year, mourning dove season will open statewide on Friday, September 4 at noon and Mississippi hunters will once again enjoy a 90-day, ... «WCBI, Jul 15»
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Join the Dove Club!
One of the best ways to do that is through dove hunting, which is part of the reason why great dove hunts are in such high demand but often ... «Florida Sportsman Magazine, Jul 15»
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Dove Center welcomes 5 new trustees for 2015
ST. GEORGE — Dove Center in St. George, a not-for-profit shelter, support and advocacy organization for victims of domestic violence and ... «St George News, Jul 15»

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