dove

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Signification

1. A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
2. A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
3. Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
4. A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
5. (slang) Short for love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/dʌv/

Étymologie

From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove, pigeon”). Cognate with Scots doo, dow, Saterland Frisian Duuwe, West Frisian do, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, Sranan Tongo doifi, German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch Low Saxon duve, doeve, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Yiddish טויב (toyb), Gothic *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (*dubō).

Associé à frison occidental

do

Associé à néerlandais

duif

Associé à allemand

Taube

Nouveau

dive

1. To swim under water.
2. To jump into water head-first.
3. To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
4. To descend sharply or steeply.
5. To lose altitude quickly by pointing downwards, as with a bird or aircraft.
6. To undertake with enthusiasm.
7. To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
8. To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
9. To explore by diving; to plunge into.
10. To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.