Dove vs Squab - What's the difference?
dove | squab |
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.
(politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict (as opposed to hawk).
* Cant. ii. 14
Strong-declension (dive)
* 2007 : Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide'', §: ''Africa'', ''Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire , page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; ISBN 9780307394361)
(non-standard)
A baby pigeon or dove.
The meat of a squab (i.e. a young (domestic) pigeon or dove) used as food.
A baby rook.
A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.
* (imitating Earl of Dorset), Artemisia'', 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), ''A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain ,
* (rfdate)
A person of a short, fat figure.
* , The Progress of Error'', 1824, ''Poems of William Cowper, Esq ,
(obsolete) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
To furnish with squabs, or cushions.
Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
* (rfdate) Betterton
Unfledged; unfeathered.
(slang) With a heavy fall; plump.
* (rfdate) L'Estrange
As nouns the difference between dove and squab
is that dove is 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 while squab is a baby pigeon or dove.As verbs the difference between dove and squab
is that dove is strong-declension simple past of dive while squab is to fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.As a proper noun Dove
is constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Caelum and Puppis.As an adjective squab is
fat; thick; plump; bulky.As an adverb squab is
with a heavy fall; plump.dove
English
(wikipedia dove)Etymology 1
From (etyl) dove, douve, duve, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- O my dove , let me hear thy voice.
Synonyms
* columbid * columbiform * culver * pigeonDerived terms
* African Mourning Dove (Streptopelia decipiens ) * Adamawa Turtle Dove (Streptopelia hypopyrrha ) * American Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura ) * Barbary Dove (Streptopelia risoria ) * Beautiful Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus ) * Carolina Turtledove (Zenaida macroura ) * Carunculated Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus granulifrons ) * Crimson-capped Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus ) * Crimson-crowned Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus ) * cushat dove, cushat-dove * diamond dove * dovecot, dovecote * dove of peace * dovish * Dwarf Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus naina ) * Eared Dove (Zenaida auriculata ) * Fischer's fruit dove (Ptilinopus fischeri ) * fruit dove, fruit-dove * Galapagos Dove (Zenaida galapagoensis''), (''Zenaida galapagoensis ) * Grey-headed Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus hyogastrus ) * ground dove * Jambu Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus jambu ) * Magnificent Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus magnificus ) * Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura ) * Mourning Collared Dove (Streptopelia decipiens ) * Rain Dove (Zenaida macroura ) * release dove * Ring Dove (Streptopelia risoria ) * Ringneck Dove (Streptopelia risoria ) * rock dove * Socorro Dove (Zenaida graysoni ) * turtledove, turtle-dove, turtle dove * Western Turtle Dove (Zenaida macroura ) * West Peruvian Dove (Zenaida meloda ) * White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica ) * Wompoo Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus magnificus ) * Zenaida dove (Zenaida ) * Zenaida Dove (Zenaida aurita )Etymology 2
A modern dialectal formation of the strong conjugation, by analogy with drive ? drove and weave ? wove.Alternative forms
* divedVerb
(head)- When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove , Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude.
Usage notes
* See dive'' for ''dived'' vs. ''dove .References
* “dove]” listed as a North American and English dialectal past tense form of “[http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50067738 dive, v.'']”, listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989 English heteronyms English terms with multiple etymologies ----
squab
English
Noun
(en noun)page 86,
- On her large ?quab you find her ?pread, / Like a fat corp?e upon a bed, / That lies and ?tinks in ?tate.
- Punching the squab of chairs and sofas.
page 28,
- Gorgonius sits abdominous and wan, / Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan:
Synonyms
* (baby pigeon) piper, squeaker, pigeon chick, young pigeon, baby dove * (baby rook) rook chick, young rookVerb
(squabb)Adjective
(en adjective)- Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice.
- a squab pigeon
- (King)
Adverb
(-)- The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and dropped him down, squab , upon a rock.