Conduce vs Drove - What's the difference?
conduce | drove |
To contribute or lead to a specific result.
* Macaulay
* , chapter=19
, title= * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 85:
* 2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 343:
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).
A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven
(drive).
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=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.}}
To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
As verbs the difference between conduce and drove
is that conduce is to contribute or lead to a specific result while drove is (drive).As a noun drove is
a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.conduce
English
Verb
(conduc)- He was sensible how much such a union would conduce to the happiness of both.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare.}}
- There was thus a strong tendency to assume that obedience to God's commandments could conduce to prosperity and safety.
- Anecdotes aside, many historians are skeptical that trade, as a general rule, conduces to peace.
drove
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) drove, drof, draf, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
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