drove

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /dɹəʊv/    美 /dɹoʊv/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. broadly,figuratively,plural-normally
    — in droves
  3. A group of hares. collective
  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.
动词 v.
  1. simple past of drive form-of,past
    — I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
  2. To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
    — He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh.
  3. past participle of drive dialectal,form-of,participle,past
    — Not the Horn-Plague, but something worse, Had drove the frighted Cucks from thence.
    Fanny Hill
  4. To finish (stone) with a drove chisel. transitive

词形变化

droves plural droves present,singular,third-person droving participle,present droved participle,past droved past

词汇关系

衍生词
drover drove road droveway in droves Parson Drove

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From earlier drave, from Middle English drave, draf, from Old English drāf, first and third person singular indicative preterite of drīfan (“to drive”).
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