drove

Significado

1. A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
2. A large number of people on the move.
3. A group of hares.
4. A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or coil 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.

Frecuencia

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/dɹəʊv/

Etimología

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.

Cognado con neerlandés

dreef

Nuevo

drive

1. To operate a vehicle
2. To operate a vehicle
3. To operate a vehicle
4. (slang) To operate a vehicle
5. To operate a vehicle
6. To compel to move
7. To compel to move
8. To cause to move by the application of physical force
9. To cause to move by the application of physical force
10. To cause to move by the application of physical force
11. To cause to move by the application of physical force
12. To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
13. To compel to undergo a non-physical change
14. To compel to undergo a non-physical change
15. To compel to undergo a non-physical change
16. To compel to undergo a non-physical change
17. To compel to undergo a non-physical change
18. To compel to undergo a non-physical change
19. To move forcefully.
20. To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
21. To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
22. To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
23. To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
24. To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
25. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
26. To be the dominant party in a sex act.