drove
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drove 1
(drōv)v.
Past tense of drive.
drove 2
(drōv)n.
1.
a. A flock or herd being driven in a body.
b. oftendroves A large mass of people moving or acting as a body:people moving through the streets in droves.
2.
a. A stonemason's broad-edged chisel used for rough hewing.
b. A stone surface dressed with such a chisel.
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drove
(drəʊv)vb
the past tense ofdrive
drove
(drəʊv)n
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
vb
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 Englishdrāf herd; related to Middle Low Germandrēfwech cattle pasture; see drive, drift]
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drove1
(droʊv)v.
pt. ofdrive.
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 calleddrove′ 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 Englishdrāf that which is driven]
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Drove
a crowd of people moving in one direction; a number of cattle or other animals driven in a body. See alsoconcourse,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.
Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
drove
Past participle:droved
Gerund:droving
Imperative |
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drove |
drove |
Present |
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I drove |
you drove |
he/she/it droves |
we drove |
you drove |
they drove |
Preterite |
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I droved |
you droved |
he/she/it droved |
we droved |
you droved |
they droved |
Present Continuous |
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I am droving |
you are droving |
he/she/it is droving |
we are droving |
you are droving |
they are droving |
Present Perfect |
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I have droved |
you have droved |
he/she/it has droved |
we have droved |
you have droved |
they have droved |
Past Continuous |
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I was droving |
you were droving |
he/she/it was droving |
we were droving |
you were droving |
they were droving |
Past Perfect |
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I had droved |
you had droved |
he/she/it had droved |
we had droved |
you had droved |
they had droved |
Future |
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I will drove |
you will drove |
he/she/it will drove |
we will drove |
you will drove |
they will drove |
Future Perfect |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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I would drove |
you would drove |
he/she/it would drove |
we would drove |
you would drove |
they would drove |
Past Conditional |
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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 |
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
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Noun | 1. | drove - a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together animal group - a group of animals |
2. | ![]() crowd - a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers" | |
3. | ![]() chisel - an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge |
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drove
noun(often plural)herd,company,crowds,collection,gathering,mob,flocks,swarm,horde,multitude,throngScientists are leaving the country in droves.
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
drove
noun1.An enormous number of persons gathered together:
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When he shut the door, mounted the box with the coachman, and theydrove off, the little girlfound herself seated in a comfortably cushioned corner, but she was not inclined to go to sleep again.
With others Balaga bargained, charging twenty-five rubles for a two hours' drive, and rarelydrove himself, generally letting his young men do so.
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 anddrove off.
"No, I must atone for my sins, and I'm very comfortable on the box." And hedrove.
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 Tydeusdrove off with the horses, and bade his followers take them to the ships.
It will be worth another ten dollars to you if you can find me the man whodrove her."
'I oncedrove to Pashutino with him in half an hour.'
Meanwhile hedrove 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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