drove

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
2. (broadly, figuratively, plural-normally) A large number of people on the move.
3. (collective) A group of hares.
4. A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or could be driven; a droveway.
5. A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
6. A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
7. The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.

Verb

1. (form-of, past) simple past of drive
2. (dialectal, form-of, participle, past) past participle of drive

Verb

1. To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
2. (transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.

drive

• Verb
• Noun

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Sinonieme

herd

flock

swarm

horde

pack

pride

mob

troop

crowd

drove chisel

gaggle

company

bevy

school

🏫

army

pod

drift

throng

building

brood

battalion

brace

cloud

☁️

clamour

cluster

clutter

coalition

colony

comfort

boar

🐗

barren

assembly

circle

⭕

chowder

bike

🚲

chipping chisel

field

family

👪

cartload

barrel

flight

✈️

exaltation

flush

erst

gang

grist

group

gulp

harem

busyness

Vertalings

troupeau

manada

kudde

grex

rebaño

αγέλη

horde

sürü

foule

drift

brulicame

Rudel

ramat

ορδή

Herde

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dɹəʊv/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: drove

Geërf van Old English: drāf

Verwante met Skots: drave

Verwante met Nederlands: dreef

Verwante met Middle High German: treip

Verwante met Sweeds: drev

Verwante met Yslands: dreif

Geërf van Middle English: drave

In summary

From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English drāf (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic *draibō (“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Cognate with Scots drave, dreef (“drove, crowd”), Dutch dreef (“a walkway, wide road with trees, drove”), Middle High German treip (“a drove”), Swedish drev (“a drive, drove”), Icelandic dreif (“a scattering, distribution”). More at drive.

Sinne

The ambulance drove quickly to the hospital .