Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
- (now rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals.
- Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
- (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble.
Verbi
- (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
- (intransitive, Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
- (transitive) To unite or associate in a herd
- (transitive) To form or put into a herd.
- (transitive) To manage, care for or guard a herd
- (transitive) To move or drive a herd.
- (intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
- To move, or be moved, in a group. (of both animals and people)
Esimerkit
- The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea.
- Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd.
- But far more numerous was the herd of such / Who think too little and who talk too much.
- You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question.
- Sheep herd on many hills.
- I’ll herd among his friends, and seem One of the number. Addison.
- Any talent which gives a good new thing to others is a miracle, but commentators have thought it extra miraculous that England's first known poet was an illiterate herd.
- I heard the herd of cattle being herded home from a long way away.
- 3,000 cattle from the herds which tested positive for markers indicating potential dioxin contamination were slaughtered. (The Independant, 10 décembre 2008)
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | herded |
| Imperfekti | herded |
| Partisiipin preesens | herding |
| Monikko | herds |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | herds |