Dove

Noun

 * 1) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size.
 * 2)  A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict (as opposed to hawk).
 * 3)  dove, a engineering reference point in a computer program that will cause some type of default action to occur.

Synonyms

 * culver
 * pigeon

Derived terms

 * cushat dove, cushat-dove
 * dovecot, dovecote
 * release dove
 * rock dove
 * turtle dove, turtledove

Verb

 * 1)  Strong-declension
 * 2) * 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 9780307394361)
 * When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove, Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude.

Adjectives for Dove
crooning;  staid;   strengthless;  mellow-mourning;  lonely; sucking; milk-white; cooing; brooding; silver; snowy.

Verbs for Dove
tame—; toy with—; —bills; —broods; — coos; —crouches; —grieves ; —haunts; — moans; —mourns ; —murmurs; —plains; —sails; —trembles; —trumpets; —tumbles; —walks.

Thesaurus
angel, avifauna, babe, baby bird, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdy, cage bird, chick, child, child of nature, conchie, conscientious objector, cygnet, diving bird, dupe, eagle, eaglet, fish-eating bird, fledgling, flightless bird, fowl, fruit-eating bird, fulmar, game bird, hick, infant, ingenue, innocent, insect-eating bird, lamb, lout, mere child, migrant, migratory bird, nestling, newborn babe, noble savage, oaf, oscine bird, owl, pacificator, pacificist, pacifist, passerine bird, peace lover, peacemaker, peacemonger, peacenik, peacock, peafowl, peahen, perching bird, pigeon, ratite, rube, sea bird, seed-eating bird, shore bird, simple soul, songbird, squab, storm petrel, stormy petrel, swan, unsophisticate, wading bird, warbler, water bird, waterfowl, wildfowl, yokel

Etymology 1
From dúfa:, from Germanic, probably originally imitative of the bird's call, akin to Gothic 𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉:. Cognate with Danish due:, Dutch duif:, German Taube:.

Etymology 2
A modern dialectal formation of the strong declension, by analogy with drive: → drove: and weave: → wove:.

Alternative forms

 * dived

Noun

 * Acholi:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: حمامة
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܝܘܢܐ (yawnā’)
 * Hebrew: יונא (yawnā’)
 * Armenian:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: голуб
 * Bengali: ঘুঘু
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: colom
 * Cebuano: pati
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 鴿子, 鸽子
 * Cree: NA,  NA
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Fijian: ruve
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: περιστέρι (peristéri)
 * Guaraní: pykasu, jeruti
 * Hebrew: יונה (yoná)
 * Hindi: कपोत (kapot)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:


 * Ido: kolombo
 * Indonesian: merpati, burung merpati, dara, burung dara, ketitiran
 * Interlingua: columba, pipion
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 鳩
 * Korean: 비둘기
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: balodis, dūja
 * Low Saxon: ("Low German") Duuv’
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: dūfe (unattested except as a feminine proper name), culfer
 * Persian: فاخته
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: columba
 * Russian: голубь
 * Samoan:
 * Scottish Gaelic: calman, smùdan
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: голуб, голубица
 * Roman: golub, golubica
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish: paloma, pichón (dove's chick)
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kalapati
 * Telugu: పావురం (paavuram), కపోతం (kapoatham)
 * Tupinambá: pykasu
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uyghur: كەپتەر
 * Welsh: colomen
 * Yiddish: טױב (toyb)

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Indonesian: terjun
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 潜った (もぐった, mogutta) (?)

Noun

 * 1) A deaf person.

Anagrams

 * voed

Etymology
From Italian de: + ove:.

Adverb
dove


 * 1)  where
 * Dove vai? - Where are you going?

Anagrams

 * devo, vedo