Dove

  1. Proper noun.  constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Caelum and Puppis.
  2. Noun.  A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
  3. Noun.  (politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict (as opposed to hawk).
  4. Noun.  (engineering) Dove, an engineering reference point in a computer program that will cause some type of default action.
  5. Verb.  (chiefly, North America) Strong-declension (simple past of, dive) .

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.