different between drove vs pressed
drove
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d???v/
- Rhymes: -??v
- (General American) IPA: /d?o?v/
- (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?) IPA(key): /d??o?v/ (Used in some regions of the US, particularly the Midwest)
Etymology 1
From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English dr?f (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic *draib? (“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reyb?- (“to drive, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?er- (“to support”). 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.
Noun
drove (plural droves)
- A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
- (usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
- (collective) A group of hares.
- A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven.
- A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
- A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
- The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
Derived terms
- in droves
Translations
Etymology 2
From earlier drave, from Middle English drave, draf, from Old English dr?f, first and third person singular indicative preterite of dr?fan (“to drive”).
Verb
drove
- simple past tense of drive
drove (third-person singular simple present droves, present participle droving, simple past and past participle droved)
- To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
- (transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Devor, Dover, Dovre, Voder, roved, vedro, vored
Middle English
Adjective
drove
- Alternative form of drof
drove From the web:
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- what drove imperialism in europe
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pressed
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??st/
Verb
pressed
- simple past tense and past participle of press
Adjective
pressed (comparative more pressed, superlative most pressed)
- Under strain or deprivation
- (Internet slang) Upset, bothered
- (nautical) recruited by a press gang
Anagrams
- depress, spersed
pressed From the web:
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- what's pressed powder used for
- what's pressed powder
- what's pressed coconut water
- what's pressed garlic
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- what's pressed juice
- what's pressed apple juice
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