Explore Calve through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like separate or divide. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Calve in a sentence
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Calve meaning
- To give birth to a calf.
- To assist in a cow’s giving birth to a calf.
- To give birth to (a calf).
Calve vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Calve
- The main meaning on this page is: To give birth to a calf. | To assist in a cow’s giving birth to a calf. | To give birth to (a calf).
- Useful related words include: break up, separate, divide, part.
- Possible Dutch translations are: kalven, ter wereld brengen.
- In the example corpus, calve often appears in combinations such as: to calve, calve in, calve they.
Context around Calve
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Calve
- In this selection, "calve" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cows, rest, peggy, fat, 100 and twice stand out and add context to how "calve" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include land to calve they deliver and and peggy calve 100 cows. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "calve" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with calve
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
His cows calve during April and May. (7 words)
Most of the animals are due to calve in early 2024. (11 words)
He and Peggy calve 100 cows a year using a synchronized breeding system. (13 words)
Their territory spans a huge swath of northeastern Alaska and northwestern Canada, and their health and culture depends on the Porcupine caribou herd—a group of animals 200,000 strong that calve on the area of the coastal plain slated for drilling. (42 words)
The small amount of milk available for the calf under such systems may mean that it takes a longer time to rear, and in subsistence farming it is therefore common for cows to calve only in alternate years. (38 words)
Mr McElvogue added there also appeared to be calve fat scrapings in the vicinity, as well as meat, which he said could have come from a butchers or abattoir. (29 words)
The three most important questions to ask to a dairy farmer about a sick cow (vet students take note) are: When did she calve? (24 words)
Example sentences (13)
His cows calve during April and May.
Most of the animals are due to calve in early 2024.
Mr McElvogue added there also appeared to be calve fat scrapings in the vicinity, as well as meat, which he said could have come from a butchers or abattoir.
About half of the herd, which includes the Wye cows, calves in autumn, and the rest calve in spring.
He and Peggy calve 100 cows a year using a synchronized breeding system.
Their territory spans a huge swath of northeastern Alaska and northwestern Canada, and their health and culture depends on the Porcupine caribou herd—a group of animals 200,000 strong that calve on the area of the coastal plain slated for drilling.
Although the is of a considerable size, it will not be the largest of icebergs to calve in Antarctica.
The three most important questions to ask to a dairy farmer about a sick cow (vet students take note) are: When did she calve?
Gestation varies from 15 to 18 months. sfn Mothers calve, with usually a single offspring, about once every five years.
Since they are unable to go onto land to calve, they deliver the baby with the fetus positioned for tail-first delivery.
Since they are unable to go onto land to calve, they deliver the baby with the foetus positioned for tail-first delivery.
The small amount of milk available for the calf under such systems may mean that it takes a longer time to rear, and in subsistence farming it is therefore common for cows to calve only in alternate years.
Thus a female can calve twice a year, and even thrice if one calf dies.
Common combinations with calve
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to calve 5×
- calve in 3×
- calve they 2×