drove

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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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Konzepte

Rudel

Herde

gefahren

fuhr

Schar

Schule

🏫

Schwarm

Sprung

Pack

📦

Meute

Rotte

Schafherde

Synonyme

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

Übersetzungen

troupeau

manada

kudde

grex

rebaño

αγέλη

drift

sürü

foule

horde

gado

ορδή

roedel

troep

grei

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/dɹəʊv/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: drove

Geerbt von Altenglisch: drāf

Verwandt mit Schottisch: drave

Verwandt mit Niederländisch: dreef

Verwandt mit Mittelhochdeutsch: treip

Verwandt mit Schwedisch: drev

Verwandt mit Isländisch: dreif

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: 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.

Sätze

The ambulance drove quickly to the hospital .

Der Krankenwagen fuhr schnell ins Krankenhaus.