n 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.
n (politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict (as opposed to hawk).
n (engineering) Dove, an engineering reference point in a computer program that will cause some type of default action.
v (chiefly|North America|and|English|_|dialect) strong declension | Strong-declension (simple past of|dive|cap=s)