dove

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dove

1 [duhv]

–noun

1.	any bird of the family Columbidae, esp. the smaller species with pointed tails. Compare pigeon (def. 1).

2.	a pure white member of this species, used as a symbol of innocence, gentleness, tenderness, and peace.

3.	(initial capital letter) a symbol for the Holy Ghost.

4.	an innocent, gentle, or tender person.

5.	Also called peace dove. a person, esp. one in public office, who advocates peace or a conciliatory national attitude. Compare hawk ¹ (def. 4).

6.	dove color.

7.	(initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Columba.

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Origin:
1150–1200; ME; OE dūfe- (in dūfedoppa dip-diver); c. D duif, G Taube, ON dūfa, Goth dūbo, orig. a diver

Related forms:

dovelike, dovish, adjective

dov⋅ish⋅ness, noun

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dove

2 [dohv]

–verb

a pt. of dive.

Dove

[duhv]

–noun

1.	Arthur, 1880–1946, U.S. painter.

2.	Rita, born 1952, U.S. poet and educator: U.S. poet laureate 1993.

dive

[dahyv]

verb, dived or dove, dived, div⋅ing, noun

–verb (used without object)

1.	to plunge into water, esp. headfirst.

2.	to go below the surface of the water, as a submarine.

3.	to plunge, fall, or descend through the air, into the earth, etc.: The acrobats dived into nets.

4.	Aeronautics. (of an airplane) to descend rapidly.

5.	to penetrate suddenly into something, as with the hand: to dive into one's purse.

6.	to dart: to dive into a doorway.

7.	to enter deeply or plunge into a subject, activity, etc.

–verb (used with object)

8.	to cause to plunge, submerge, or descend.

9.	to insert quickly; plunge: He dived his hand into his pocket.

–noun

10.	an act or instance of diving.

11.	a jump or plunge into water, esp. in a prescribed way from a diving board.

12.	the vertical or nearly vertical descent of an airplane at a speed surpassing the possible speed of the same plane in level flight.

13.	a submerging, as of a submarine or skindiver.

14.	a dash, plunge, or lunge, as if throwing oneself at or into something: He made a dive for the football.

15.	a sudden or sharp decline, as in stock prices.

16.	Informal. a dingy or disreputable bar or nightclub.

17.	Boxing. a false show of being knocked out, usually in a bout whose result has been prearranged: to take a dive in an early round.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME diven to dive, dip, OE dȳfan to dip (causative of dūfan to dive, sink); c. ON dȳfa dip, G taufen to baptize; akin to dip

Usage note:
Both dived and dove are standard as the past tense of dive. Dived, historically the older form, is somewhat more common in edited writing, but dove occurs there so frequently that it also must be considered standard: The rescuer dove into 20 feet of icy water. Dove is an Americanism that probably developed by analogy with alternations like drive, drove and ride, rode. It is the more common form in speech in the northern United States and in Canada, and its use seems to be spreading. The past participle of dive is always dived.

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Co·lum·ba (kə-lŭm'bə)

n. A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Caelum and Puppis. Also called Dove.

[Latin columba, dove.]

dive¹ (dīv)

v. dived or dove (dōv), dived, div·ing, dives

v. intr.

1. To plunge, especially headfirst, into water.
2. To execute a dive in athletic competition.
3. To participate in the sport of competitive diving.
4. To go toward the bottom of a body of water; submerge.
5. To engage in the activity of scuba diving.
6. To submerge under power. Used of a submarine.
7. To fall head down through the air.
8. To descend nose down at an acceleration usually exceeding that of free fall. Used of an airplane.
9. To engage in the sport of skydiving.
10. To rush headlong and vanish into: dive into a crowd.
11. To plunge one's hand into.
1. To go toward the bottom of a body of water; submerge.
2. To engage in the activity of scuba diving.
3. To submerge under power. Used of a submarine.
4. To fall head down through the air.
5. To descend nose down at an acceleration usually exceeding that of free fall. Used of an airplane.
6. To engage in the sport of skydiving.
7. To rush headlong and vanish into: dive into a crowd.
8. To plunge one's hand into.
1. To fall head down through the air.
2. To descend nose down at an acceleration usually exceeding that of free fall. Used of an airplane.
3. To engage in the sport of skydiving.
4. To rush headlong and vanish into: dive into a crowd.
5. To plunge one's hand into.
To drop sharply and rapidly; plummet: Stock prices dove 100 points in a single day of trading.
1. To rush headlong and vanish into: dive into a crowd.
2. To plunge one's hand into.
To lunge: dove for the loose ball.
To plunge into an activity or enterprise with vigor and gusto.

v. tr.
To cause (an aircraft, for example) to dive.
n.

1. A plunge into water, especially done headfirst and in a way established for athletic competition.
2. The act or an instance of submerging, as of a submarine or a skin diver.
3. A nearly vertical descent at an accelerated speed through the air.
4. A quick, pronounced drop.
5. Slang A disreputable or run-down bar or nightclub.
6. A run-down residence.
7. A knockout feigned by prearrangement between prizefighters: The challenger took a dive.
8. An exaggerated fall, especially by a hockey player, intended to draw a penalty against an opponent.
9. A lunge or a headlong jump: made a dive to catch the falling teacup.
10. Football An offensive play in which the carrier of the ball plunges into the opposing line in order to gain short yardage.
1. Slang A disreputable or run-down bar or nightclub.
2. A run-down residence.
3. A knockout feigned by prearrangement between prizefighters: The challenger took a dive.
4. An exaggerated fall, especially by a hockey player, intended to draw a penalty against an opponent.
5. A lunge or a headlong jump: made a dive to catch the falling teacup.
6. Football An offensive play in which the carrier of the ball plunges into the opposing line in order to gain short yardage.
Sports
1. A knockout feigned by prearrangement between prizefighters: The challenger took a dive.
2. An exaggerated fall, especially by a hockey player, intended to draw a penalty against an opponent.
3. A lunge or a headlong jump: made a dive to catch the falling teacup.
4. Football An offensive play in which the carrier of the ball plunges into the opposing line in order to gain short yardage.
1. A lunge or a headlong jump: made a dive to catch the falling teacup.
2. Football An offensive play in which the carrier of the ball plunges into the opposing line in order to gain short yardage.

[Middle English diven, from Old English dȳfan, to dip, and from dūfan, to sink; see dheub- in Indo-European roots.]

Usage Note: Either dove or dived is acceptable as the past tense of dive. Usage preferences show regional distribution, although both forms are heard throughout the United States. According to the Dictionary of American Regional English, in the North, dove is more prevalent; in the South Midland, dived. Dived is actually the earlier form, and the emergence of dove may appear anomalous in light of the general tendencies of change in English verb forms. Old English had two classes of verbs: strong verbs, whose past tense was indicated by a change in their vowel (a process that survives in such present-day English verbs as drive/drove or fling/flung); and weak verbs, whose past was formed with a suffix related to -ed in Modern English (as in present-day English live/lived and move/moved). Since the Old English period, many verbs have changed from the strong pattern to the weak one; for example, the past tense of step, formerly stop, became stepped. Over the years, in fact, the weak pattern has become so prevalent that we use the term regular to refer to verbs that form their past tense by suffixation of -ed. However, there have occasionally been changes in the other direction: the past tense of wear, now wore, was once werede, and that of spit, now spat, was once spitede. The development of dove is an additional example of the small group of verbs that have swum against the historical tide.

dove¹ (dŭv)

Any of various widely distributed birds of the family Columbidae, which includes the pigeons, having a small head and a characteristic cooing call.
A gentle, innocent person.
A person who advocates peace, conciliation, or negotiation in preference to confrontation or armed conflict.

[Middle English douve, from Old English *dūfe.]
dov'ish adj., dov'ish·ness n.

dove² (dōv)

v. A past tense of dive¹. See Usage Note at dive¹. See Regional Note at wake¹.

Dove (dŭv)

n. See Columba.

Slang Dictionary

dive

n.
a low drinking establishment; a cheap saloon. : I don't think I want to spend the whole evening in this dive.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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dove [dəv]

n.
someone who supports a peace-seeking U.S. defense policy. (Compare this with hawk.) : The doves want to sell the tanks and distribute the money to the poor.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

dive

emerged 13c. from O.E. dufan "to dive, duck, sink" (intransitive, class II strong verb; past tense deaf, pp. dofen) and dyfan "to dip, submerge" (weak, transitive), from P.Gmc. *dubijanan. Past tense dove is a later formation, perhaps on analogy of drive/drove. Sense of "disreputable bar" is first recorded Amer.Eng. 1871, perhaps because they were usually in basements, and going into one was both a literal and fig. "diving."

dove

probably from O.E. dufe- (found only in compounds), from P.Gmc. *dubon, perhaps related to words for "dive," from its flight. Originally applied to all pigeons, now mostly restricted to the turtle dove. A symbol of gentleness from early Christian times, also of the Holy Spirit (cf. Gen. viii.8-12); political meaning "person who advocates peace" first attested 1962, during Cuban Missile Crisis. Dovetail (v.) first recorded 1657, from resemblance of shape in the tenon or mortise of the joints (cf. dovetail joint, attested from 1565).

Financial Dictionary

Dove

An economic policy advisor that promote the maintenance of low interest rates. Their premise is that inflation and its negative effects upon society are minimal.

Investopedia Commentary

Doves prefer low interest rates as a means of igniting growth within the economy. They believe the negative effects are negligible in the larger scheme of things.

Bible Dictionary

Dove

In their wild state doves generally build their nests in the clefts of rocks, but when domesticated "dove-cots" are prepared for them (Cant. 2:14; Jer. 48:28; Isa. 60:8). The dove was placed on the standards of the Assyrians and Babylonians in honour, it is supposed, of Semiramis (Jer. 25:38; Vulg., "fierceness of the dove;" comp. Jer. 46:16; 50:16). Doves and turtle-doves were the only birds that could be offered in sacrifice, as they were clean according to the Mosaic law (Ge. 15:9; Lev. 5:7; 12:6; Luke 2:24). The dove was the harbinger of peace to Noah (Gen. 8:8, 10). It is often mentioned as the emblem of purity (Ps. 68:13). It is a symbol of the Holy Spirit (Gen. 1:2; Matt. 3:16; Mark 1:10; Luke 3:22; John 1:32); also of tender and devoted affection (Cant. 1:15; 2:14). David in his distress wished that he had the wings of a dove, that he might fly away and be at rest (Ps. 55:6-8). There is a species of dove found at Damascus "whose feathers, all except the wings, are literally as yellow as gold" (68:13).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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