drove

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drove¹

(drōv)

Past tense of drive.

drove²

(drōv)

a. A flock or herd being driven in a body.

b. often droves A large mass of people moving or acting as a body: people moving through the streets in droves.

a. A stonemason's broad-edged chisel used for rough hewing.

b. A stone surface dressed with such a chisel.

[Middle English, from Old English drāf, from drīfan, to drive; see dhreibh- in Indo-European roots.]

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drove

(drəʊv)

the past tense of drive

drove

(drəʊv)

1. (Agriculture) a herd of livestock being driven together

2. (often plural) a moving crowd of people

3. (Civil Engineering) a narrow irrigation channel

4. (Tools) Also called: drove chisel a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone

5. (Agriculture)

a. (tr) to drive (a group of livestock), usually for a considerable distance

b. (intr) to be employed as a drover

6. (Tools) to work (a stone surface) with a drove

[Old English drāf herd; related to Middle Low German drēfwech cattle pasture; see drive, drift]

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drove¹

(droʊv)

v.

pt. of drive.

drove²

(droʊv)

n., v. droved, drov•ing. n.

1. a number of oxen, sheep, or swine driven in a group; herd; flock.

2. Usu., droves. a large crowd of human beings, esp. in motion.

3. Also called drove′ chis`el. a chisel, from 2 to 4 in. (5 to 10 cm) broad at the edge, for dressing stones to an approximately true surface.

v.t.

4. to dress (stone) with a drove.

[before 950; Middle English; Old English drāf that which is driven]

Drove

a crowd of people moving in one direction; a number of cattle or other animals driven in a body. See also concourse, drift, flock.

Examples: drove of asses; of beasts, 1350; of bullocks; of cab-drivers—Lipton, 1970; of cattle, 1555; of heresies, 1692; of horses, 1764; of immoralities, 1692; of kine [‘cattle’]; of oxen; of young shoat [‘pigs’], 1707; of sheep, 1837; of swine.

drove

Past participle: droved
Gerund: droving

Imperative
drove
drove

Present
I drove
you drove
he/she/it droves
we drove
you drove
they drove

Preterite
I droved
you droved
he/she/it droved
we droved
you droved
they droved

Present Continuous
I am droving
you are droving
he/she/it is droving
we are droving
you are droving
they are droving

Present Perfect
I have droved
you have droved
he/she/it has droved
we have droved
you have droved
they have droved

Past Continuous
I was droving
you were droving
he/she/it was droving
we were droving
you were droving
they were droving

Past Perfect
I had droved
you had droved
he/she/it had droved
we had droved
you had droved
they had droved

Future
I will drove
you will drove
he/she/it will drove
we will drove
you will drove
they will drove

Future Perfect
I will have droved
you will have droved
he/she/it will have droved
we will have droved
you will have droved
they will have droved

Future Continuous
I will be droving
you will be droving
he/she/it will be droving
we will be droving
you will be droving
they will be droving

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been droving
you have been droving
he/she/it has been droving
we have been droving
you have been droving
they have been droving

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been droving
you will have been droving
he/she/it will have been droving
we will have been droving
you will have been droving
they will have been droving

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been droving
you had been droving
he/she/it had been droving
we had been droving
you had been droving
they had been droving

Conditional
I would drove
you would drove
he/she/it would drove
we would drove
you would drove
they would drove

Past Conditional
I would have droved
you would have droved
he/she/it would have droved
we would have droved
you would have droved
they would have droved

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Noun	1.	drove - a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together animal group - a group of animals
	2.	drove - a moving crowd swarm, horde crowd - a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"
	3.	drove - a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone drove chisel chisel - an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge

drove

noun (often plural) herd, company, crowds, collection, gathering, mob, flocks, swarm, horde, multitude, throng Scientists are leaving the country in droves.

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drove

noun

1. An enormous number of persons gathered together:

crowd, crush, flock, horde, mass, mob, multitude, press, ruck, swarm, throng.

2. A very large number of things grouped together:

army, cloud, crowd, flock, horde, host, legion, mass, mob, multitude, ruck, score (used in plural), swarm, throng.

Translations

troupeau

codazzo sciame

гурт

drove

[drəʊv]

A. PT of drive

B. N [of cattle] → manada f
droves of people → una multitud de gente
they came in droves → acudieron en tropel

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drove

n (of animals) → Herde f; (of people) → Schar f; they came in droves → sie kamen in hellen Scharen

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drove

[drəʊv]

1. pt of drive

2. n (of cattle) → mandria
droves of people → centinaia fpl di persone
they came in droves → sono arrivati a frotte

drove

pret de drive

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When he shut the door, mounted the box with the coachman, and they drove off, the little girlfound herself seated in a comfortably cushioned corner, but she was not inclined to go to sleep again.

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With others Balaga bargained, charging twenty-five rubles for a two hours' drive, and rarely drove himself, generally letting his young men do so.

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He had, however, taken the precaution to engage in advance a runabout with a pair of old livery-stable trotters that could still do their eighteen miles on level roads; and at two o'clock, hastily deserting the luncheon-table, he sprang into the light carriage and drove off.

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"No, I must atone for my sins, and I'm very comfortable on the box." And he drove.

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Idaeus did not dare to bestride his brother's body, but sprang from the chariot and took to flight, or he would have shared his brother's fate; whereon Vulcan saved him by wrapping him in a cloud of darkness, that his old father might not be utterly overwhelmed with grief; but the son of Tydeus drove off with the horses, and bade his followers take them to the ships.

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It will be worth another ten dollars to you if you can find me the man who drove her."

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'I once drove to Pashutino with him in half an hour.'

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Meanwhile he drove all the ewes inside, as well as the she-goats that he was going to milk, leaving the males, both rams and he-goats, outside in the yards.

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