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Drove vs Managed - What's the difference?

drove | managed |

As verbs the difference between drove and managed

is that drove is (drive) while managed is (manage).

As a noun drove

is a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.

drove

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) drove, drof, draf, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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).
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  • A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven
  • Derived terms

    * in droves

    Etymology 2

    From earlier drave, from (etyl) drave, draf, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (drov)
  • (drive).
  • *
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  • To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
  • managed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (manage)
  • Anagrams

    *

    manage

    English

    Verb

    (manag)
  • To direct or be in charge of.
  • To handle or control (a situation, job).
  • To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
  • * (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.ii:
  • The most vnruly, and the boldest boy, / That euer warlike weapons menaged [...].
  • To succeed at an attempt
  • * , chapter=7
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-30, volume=409, issue=8864, magazine=(The Economist), author=Paul Davis
  • , title= Letters: Say it as simply as possible , passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“ On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}
  • To achieve without fuss, or without outside help.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
  • To train (a horse) in the manege; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
  • (obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.
  • (Dryden)
  • (obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * manageable * managed care * managed code * managed house * management * manager * managerial * unmanageable

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act of managing or controlling something.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xii:
  • the winged God himselfe / Came riding on a Lion rauenous, / Taught to obay the menage of that Elfe [...].
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.
  • * Shakespeare
  • the unlucky manage of this fatal brawl
  • (horseriding) .
  • See also

    * man * (projectlink)