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# calve

«calve» in Mova's school dictionary: **To give birth to a calf** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (calve, calves, calved, calving)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (of a cow, whale, elephant and some other animals) To give birth to a calf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calve/#m1)

2) (of a glacier or iceberg) To have a big piece of ice break off and fall into the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calve/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In farm and science lessons, cows calve in spring on many farms. In geography and climate lessons, glaciers calve when chunks break off and become icebergs, a sight shown in films about Antarctica, Greenland and Alaska.

### examples

- The cow is due to calve next week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calve/#x1)
- Most of the cows calved in March. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calve/#x2)
- The glacier calved a huge iceberg into the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calve/#x3)
- We watched a video of ice calving into the ocean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calve/#x4)
- Elephants calve about every four or five years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calve/#x5)
- The farmer stayed up all night while the cow calved. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calve/#x6)
- As soon as they have calved, I shall sell the calves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calve/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: calved, calving. Trap: «calves» is both the verb («the cow calves») and the plural of «calf» (baby cows, or the backs of your lower legs). Said «kahv» (UK) or «kav» (US); the l is silent.

### In the corpora

- [Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh her young, because there is no grass,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.406/)
- [Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.537/)
- [Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1054/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «calve» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calve/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.