sheep
IPA: ʃˈip
noun
- (countable) A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.
- (countable, strictly) A member of the domestic species Ovis aries, the most well-known species of Ovis.
- (countable) A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.
- (countable, chiefly Christianity, chiefly plural) A religious adherent, a member of a congregation or religious community (compare flock).
- (uncountable) Sheepskin leather.
- (countable, speech recognition) A person who is easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with goat.
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Examples of "sheep" in Sentences
- I suppose he was not a cow-dog, but what they call a sheep-dog.
- How long must a sheep actually measure to come under the denomination of _a long sheep_? "
- They're the people Jesus was aiming for when He taught that the sheep is the MODEL for good human behavior.
- Not only was this patently false, but it amounted to another insult: The word sheep in Russian is roughly equivalent to jackass.
- In the end, what gets you a sheep is your eyes and your legs, but your two most essential tools are your rifle and your binoculars.
- Christ's offering up himself for his sheep is another proof of his being a good shepherd, and in this he yet more commended his love, v. (a.)
- Tasering a sheep is a cheap and effective way of cooking it, considering the current cost of energy. on October 7, 2008 at 10: 18 am | Reply Retired Sgt
- okay, this is completely unrelated, but you mentioned goat cheese and that made me think of sheep, and since you're in NZ, i've been wanting to ask if you've seen the movie _black sheep_--you know, since it's about man-eating genetically modified sheep roaming the NZ countryside. again, totally unrelated to your post.
- We came suddenly upon a flock of gigantic wild sheep, feeding on scanty tufts of dried sedge and grass; there were twenty-five of these enormous animals, of whose dimensions the term sheep gives no idea: they are very long-legged, stand as high as a calf, and have immense horns, so large that the fox is said to take up his abode in their hollows, when detached and bleaching, on the barren mountains of Tibet.
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