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Troop vs Covey - What's the difference?

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Troop is a related term of covey.


As nouns the difference between troop and covey

is that troop is a collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude while covey is a group of 8-12 (or more) quail see gaggle, host, flock or covey can be (british|slang|dated) a man.

As verbs the difference between troop and covey

is that troop is to move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops while covey is to brood; to incubate.

troop

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.
  • * Shakespeare
  • That which should accompany old age — / As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends — / I must not look to have.
  • (military) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
  • A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
  • Soldiers, military forces (usually "troops").
  • * Shakespeare
  • Farewell the plumed troop , and the big wars.
  • * Macaulay
  • His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines.
  • (nonstandard) A company of stageplayers; a troupe.
  • (label) A basic unit of girl or boy scouts, consisting of 6 to 10 youngsters.
  • A group of baboons.
  • A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
  • (mycology) Mushrooms that are in a close group but not close enough to be called a cluster.
  • Derived terms

    * trooper * troopship * troop carrier

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
  • To march on; to go forward in haste.
  • To move or march as if in a crowd.
  • Derived terms

    * troop the colour (qualifier)

    References

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    See also

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    Anagrams

    * English collective nouns ----

    covey

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (wikipedia covey) (en noun)
  • A group of 8-12 (or more) quail. See gaggle, host, flock.
  • A brood of partridges, grouse, etc.
  • A party or group (of persons or things).
  • * 1906 , O. Henry,
  • The store is on a corner about which coveys of ragged-plumed, hilarious children play and become candidates for the cough drops and soothing syrups that wait for them inside.
  • * 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 736
  • A covey of grey soldiers clanked down the platform at the double with their equipment and embarked, but in absolute silence, which seemed to them very singular.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To brood; to incubate.
  • * Holland
  • [Tortoises] covey a whole year before they hatch.
  • * 1869 , Florida. Commissioner of Lands and Immigration, Florida: Its Climate, Soil, and Productions (page 108)
  • There is a duck called the raft duck, because it is so numerous, coveying together in "whole rafts."
    References
    * 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, slang, dated) A man.
  • * 1846 , Justin Jones, The prince and the queen; or, Scenes in high life
  • 'Pooh!' said he, 'you are as easily wounded as an unfledged dove — don't mind what an old covey like me says — I understand it all.'
  • * 1850 , Waldo Howard, The mistake of a life-time, or, The robber of the Rhine (page 140)
  • There vas an old covey as lived in Wapping, at the time I'm telling you of, who vas connected vith us by ties of common interest.
  • * 1851 , William Thomas Moncrieff, Selections from the dramatic works of William T. Moncrieff
  • I don't know what would become of these here young chaps, if it wasn't for such careful old coveys as we are—
    Synonyms
    * bloke (UK), chap (UK), chappie (UK), cove (UK), guy

    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms