sheep

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UK /ʃiːp/ US /ʃip/

noun 5

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(noun.)

ADJ

hill

lost, stray

The farmer spent all morning searching for his stray sheep in the hills.

QUANT

flock, herd

VERB + SHEEP

farm, keep, raise, rear

The farmer keeps sheep on the hillside to produce wool and meat.

tend | slaughter | shear

drive, herd, round up, shepherd

The farmer had to round up the sheep when they escaped through the broken fence.

SHEEP + VERB

graze

The farmer's sheep graze peacefully in the green meadow every afternoon.

bleat, (go) baa

lamb

The sheep lambed early this year because of the mild winter weather.

SHEEP + NOUN

farm, station

My uncle works at a large sheep farm in the countryside where they raise hundreds of animals.

PHRASES

a breed of sheep

Definitions

noun

A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.

There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.

A member of the domestic species Ovis aries, the most well-known species of Ovis.

A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.

Sheepskin leather.

A person who is easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with goat.

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Idioms & Phrases

black sheep

A nonconformist; an unusual or unconventional person, who may be rejected or disdained by others for this reason.

He was the black sheep in the family, as an artist among doctors and lawyers.

don't teach your grandmother to steal sheep

Alternative form of don't teach your grandmother how to suck eggs.

count sheep

To attempt to go to sleep by thinking of something boring, traditionally by counting imaginary sheep.

white sheep

a conformist; an ordinary or conventional person

one may as well hang for a sheep as a lamb

If one is going to commit a sin, it may as well be a major one as a minor one.

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Wiktionary

1990, Dave Mustaine, "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due", Megadeth, Rust in Peace. And fools like me, who cross the sea and come to foreign lands / Ask the sheep, for their beliefs do you kill on God's

Wiktionary

Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep, and other mammals.

Tatoeba · #2188

It is no use trying to separate the sheep from the goats while in a state of madness.

Tatoeba · #18963

And he chased the cattle, the sheep, and the people out of the temple.

Tatoeba · #19487

We cannot separate the sheep from the goats by appearance.

Tatoeba · #21973

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