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How to pronounce “calve”
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Pronunciation guide for calve
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of calve with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 4 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Make it New: A History of Silicon Valley Design
And then they began to calve off a second generation
- Definition summary
- (intransitive) To give birth to a calf.
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How to pronounce calve
Make it New: A History of Silicon Valley Design
And then they began to calve off a second generation
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “calve”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To give birth to a calf.
- (intransitive) To assist in a cow’s giving birth to a calf.
- (transitive) To give birth to (a calf).
- (intransitive, figuratively, especially of an ice shelf, a glacier, an ice sheet, or even an iceberg) To shed a large piece, e.g. an iceberg or a smaller block of ice (coming off an iceberg).
- (intransitive, figuratively, especially of an iceberg) To break off.
- (transitive, figuratively, especially of an ice shelf, a glacier, an ice sheet, or even an iceberg) To shed (a large piece, e.g. an iceberg); to set loose (a mass of ice), e.g. a block of ice (coming off an iceberg).
- [Adjective]
- feminine plural of calvo
- [Noun]
- plural of calva
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