Talk:dove

Is there any point in giving the translations of the past tense of "to dive" here? Isn't it better to leave these to the foreign-language pages for the verbs? &mdash; Paul G 13:18, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

RfV April 2013
"An engineering reference point in a computer program that will cause some type of default action." I've never come across this one in programming, and Wikipedia does not seem to mention it. Equinox ◑ 02:03, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 00:46, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

dove and pigeon
A young Englishwoman once told me something about some instance where someone had used or depicted a "pigeon" as a "peace dove", which she found odd. I don't know anymore what exactly she said, but she definitely thought that a peace dove must be a "dove" and not a "pigeon". I'm not a native speaker of English, so I thought there must be some difference that I was unaware of. But now, a few years later, I see that wiktionary indeed defines "dove" and "pigeon" as synonyms. -- Does anyone have an idea what that lady may have had in mind? Peace doves are often thought to be white. Could that be part of it?

Missing verb sense?
Chambers 1908 has a transitive verb sense, "to treat as a dove", whatever that might mean. Equinox ◑ 06:54, 7 February 2019 (UTC)