Dove (disambiguation)

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A dove is a type of bird.

Dove may also refer to:

People

• Dove (given name), feminine given name in the English language
• Dove (surname), surname in the English language

Places

• River Dove, Barnsley
• River Dove, Derbyshire
• River Dove, North Yorkshire
• River Dove, Suffolk

Music

• Jonathan Dove, English composer
• Doves (band), English band
• "Dove" (song) a song by Italian musician Mooney
• Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, book and internet directory
• Gibson Dove, type of guitar
• GMA Dove Awards, American musical award
• Dove (the Band of Love), Devo's fake opening act
• Niki & The Dove, a Swedish indietronica duo

Acronyms

• DoVE (Digitisation of Vital Events), an initiative of the General Register Office for England and Wales to digitise birth, marriage, and death records

Military

• HMS Dove (1898), a British destroyer
• Operation Dove, a 1944 Allied World War II assault in southern France
• Operation Dove (Ireland), an aborted 1940 German World War II mission

Product brands

• Dove (chocolate), a Mars brand of chocolate named after the ice cream
• Dove (toiletries), an unrelated Unilever brand of soap and other personal care products

Computers

• Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE), a tunneling and virtualization technology for computer networks

Science

• Dove or Columba (constellation)
• Dove (crater), on the Moon
• Dove Marine Laboratory

Vehicles

• de Havilland Dove, a post–World War II short-haul airliner
• Dove (steamboat)
• Dove, the name of two boats used by teenage around-the-world sailor Robin Lee Graham, also the title of the book he wrote about the journey.
• "The Dove", Smaller of two-ship sailing fleet along with "The Ark" sent from England in 1634 to bring the first settlers to Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore's colony of Maryland (third American colony, later state) granted from King Charles I to his father George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore in 1632. The landing occurred at later named Blakistone Island Light, later re-named St. Clement's Island in the Potomac River just upstream from the Chesapeake Bay and north from earlier established Virginia at Jamestown on the James River from 1607. Colony later moved to nearby St. Mary's City which served as capital for about 100 years in the first established St. Mary's County. The original ships were featured on a 1934 U.S. commemorative postage stamp for the 300th Anniversary.
• "The Maryland Dove", reconstructed replica of 42 tons of a typical 17th century English sailing cargo ship or merchantmen. Designed by William A. Baker and constructed by James B. Richardson in a shipyard in Cambridge in Dorchester County. Built in 1977-78, she was launched August 14th and commissioned October 8, 1978, by the State of Maryland and the local preservation organization of Historic St. Mary's City Commission. In preparation to be the centerpiece for the 350th Anniversary celebration (1984) under Governor Harry R. Hughes of the original settling of the colonial Province of Maryland by the two ships sent by Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore with his brother Leonard Calvert as first governor.

Other uses

• Basel Dove, an 1845 Swiss postage stamp
• Dove Foundation, a non-profit organization
• Dove tree
• Doves (Gibraltar) or palomos, a group of Gibraltarians that advocated, in the 1960s, for a settlement with Spain
• Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (slang)
• War dove, a person favoring peace in a debate over whether to go to war
• Dove, a DC Comics superhero
• Monetary dove, someone who favors low unemployment in monetary policy

See also

• The Dove (disambiguation)
• Doves as symbols