英语词汇“calve”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

calve

/kɑːv

verb

1 [no object] (Of cows and certain other large animals) give birth to a calf: Galloway cows have wide pelvises and calve easily (as noun calving) calving takes place in the spring...

We are not aware of similar data reported for cows calving during different seasons of the year.
Cows calved from February 15 to March 20 at the Eastern Colorado Research Center.
Unlike on most dairy farms, all the cows calve at the same time of year, and the cows are not milked in wintertime.

1.1 [with object] (Of a person) help (a cow) give birth to a calf: people often used to come for him to help calve their cows...

Cows and newly calved heifers are immune to gutworms and very rarely show any signs of infection.
And he claims to have lost 37 calves during the winter, when he could not be present during complicated deliveries, because he was calving elsewhere.
Very often those calved heifers fail to go back in calf easily and become late calvers the following season.

2 [with object] (Of an iceberg or glacier) split and shed (a smaller mass of ice): glaciers were calving icebergs directly into the sea...

Out past a cruising leopard seal, the distant Marr Glacier calves another berg, the boom echoing across the water.
The glacier frequently calves huge chunks of ice into the Copper River.
It has shelves that calve big icebergs all the time, and we've tracked a lot of bergs from there.

2.1 [no object] (Of a mass of ice) split off from an iceberg or glacier: ice calved off a glacier with a loud explosive crumble...

They have calved off the Grey Glacier and been blown along the lake by the wind.
Every now and then a massive block of ice calved off into the water.
They were bruised and bloodied, but at least they had prevented a huge piece of the ice-shelf from being calved off into the ocean.

Origin

Old English calfian, from cælf 'calf'.

单词	calve
释义	calve /kɑːv / verb 1 [no object] (Of cows and certain other large animals) give birth to a calf: Galloway cows have wide pelvises and calve easily (as noun calving) calving takes place in the spring... We are not aware of similar data reported for cows calving during different seasons of the year. Cows calved from February 15 to March 20 at the Eastern Colorado Research Center. Unlike on most dairy farms, all the cows calve at the same time of year, and the cows are not milked in wintertime. 1.1 [with object] (Of a person) help (a cow) give birth to a calf: people often used to come for him to help calve their cows... Cows and newly calved heifers are immune to gutworms and very rarely show any signs of infection. And he claims to have lost 37 calves during the winter, when he could not be present during complicated deliveries, because he was calving elsewhere. Very often those calved heifers fail to go back in calf easily and become late calvers the following season. 2 [with object] (Of an iceberg or glacier) split and shed (a smaller mass of ice): glaciers were calving icebergs directly into the sea... Out past a cruising leopard seal, the distant Marr Glacier calves another berg, the boom echoing across the water. The glacier frequently calves huge chunks of ice into the Copper River. It has shelves that calve big icebergs all the time, and we've tracked a lot of bergs from there. 2.1 [no object] (Of a mass of ice) split off from an iceberg or glacier: ice calved off* a glacier with a loud explosive crumble... They have calved off the Grey Glacier and been blown along the lake by the wind. Every now and then a massive block of ice calved off into the water. They were bruised and bloodied, but at least they had prevented a huge piece of the ice-shelf from being calved off into the ocean. Origin Old English calfian, from cælf* 'calf'. Rhymes Algarve, carve, grave, Graves, halve, Slav, starve, suave, Zouave
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