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A dove is a type of bird. It may also refer to:

People:

• Dove (surname)

In music:

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

Places:

• River Dove, Derbyshire
• River Dove, Suffolk
• River Dove, North Yorkshire
• River Dove, Barnsley
• Dove Crag, in the English Lake District
• Dove Creek, Colorado
• Dove Canyon, California

Military uses:

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

Product brands:

• Dove (chocolate), American brand of candy
• Dove (brand), A Unilever brand of soap and other personal care products
• Dove Bar, American brand of ice cream

In science:

• Dove or Columba (constellation)
• Dove (crater), on the Moon
• Dove prism, image inversion device
• Dove Marine Laboratory

Vehicles:

• de Havilland Dove, a post-World War II short-haul airliner
• Dove (steamboat)
• Maryland Dove, reconstructed 17th century ship

Acronyms:

• D.O.V.E. (Defenders of the Ouse Valley and Estuary), environmental campaign group opposing the Newhaven Incinerator
• DoVE (Digitisation of Vital Events), United Kingdom General Register Office initiative to digitise birth, marriage, and death records

Other uses:

• Basel Dove, an 1845 Swiss postage stamp
• Dove tree
• Dove Foundation, a non-profit organization
• "Doves" or "love doves", slang for pills containing the drug MDMA Methylenedioxymethamphetamine
• Doves or palomos: a group of Gibraltarians that advocated, in the 1960s, for a settlement with Spain.
• Vietnam War Doves: those against the war in Vietnam.

See also

• The Dove

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