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herd English

Meaning herd meaning

What does herd mean?
Definitions in simple English

herd Noun

— A herd is a large group of animals of the same kind, a group of elephants, cattle, etc.

herd

— noun a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans — noun a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra — verb move together, like a herd — verb (= crowd) cause to herd, drive, or crowd together We herded the children into a spare classroom — verb keep, move, or drive animals Who will be herding the cattle when the cowboy dies? — noun (= ruck) a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things his brilliance raised him above the ruck the children resembled a fairy herd

Synonyms herd synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as herd?

herd English » English

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Topics herd topics

What do people use herd to talk about?
Universe, creation Animal Animal actions

Animal movement
Universe, creation Animal

Animal group
Work and occupation Animal husbandry Domesticated animal

Goat

  • What is a group of goats called?
    flock herd
Work and occupation Animal husbandry

Tend herds in fields
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Things done to animals
Physical actions Move something

Take somewhere

  • What words refer to taking an animal somewhere?
    lead herd
Physical actions Arrange

Gather

Conjugation herd conjugation

How do you conjugate herd?

herd · verb

Examples herd examples

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Simple sentences

A herd of yaks came into view.
The cowboys rounded up the herd of cattle.
Tom saw a small herd of elephants.
Tom saw a herd of horses grazing peacefully in the distance.
Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
The dogs help herd the cattle.
The newborn calf couldn't catch up with the herd running from the jaguar.
Jesus by allowing demons to enter a herd of pigs demonstrated the immutability of God's law on unclean animals.

Movie subtitles

A herd of cattle?
Tex, get the herd started.
See that big herd of buffalo grazing away so peacefully down there?
The first music I remember was the clanging of the bells. that hung from the necks of the cabestros when they led the herd.
Well, what can you expect from a herd. that, for the most part, can't read or write?
In so much as I was boss of the herd, I recon it was my fault they were stolen.
They picked up a small-herd trail and signs of shod horses down the south draw.
You're way behind the herd, mister.
The fellow with the trail herd, remember?
You can't ride herd on the law no more.
Riding herd on the little fella, huh?
He's just been waiting for you to head the herd north in a drive, a full drive.
When he got across, the Missouri border gangs jumped him, stole the herd, killed all his men.
Mind if we look your herd over?
What do they want? Herd us in the Sahara?
Every herd has his black sheep.
You go and throw them ponies in with your herd.
Kicking a herd of crawling coolies around. fighting fever. swallowing dust one month, wading in mud the next, just so some old woman can take her hot water bottle to bed with her?
Here comes the herd.
A whole herd?
Round out that herd, let's make a stop for Batum.
We hand the herd over to the transport fleet there and then back to India.
Randall, stampede the herd through that gorge.
I saw Buffalo Bill shoot at a whole herd of them once.
He's got a whole troop of cavalry riding' herd on him.
It's like riding herd on a skyrocket.
In three years I will have a model herd of 1000.
Out here is the night, crowded with beauty. and you herd inside in smoky rooms, feverish over little games. why?
Well, I guess maybe with you around to ride herd on me, I'll make the grade.
I was driving the herd all day and kind of tired. and felt like getting some relaxation.
You herd all the burros in that thicket there.
Daughter, when you gets an idea you stampede like a herd.
Never have I seen such a mangy herd or such a thieving herder.
We do not ask the price of the herd.
It'd a cade of avoiding a broken node, Emile- mine or old Compton'd- becaude a laugh like herd would judt have to lead it to a loudy fight. Bonsoir.
In the meantime another horse took Crin-Blanc's position of the leader of the herd. But Crin-Blanc was not in the mood of accepting this.
You don't have to catch a herd. All you need is one nice, big fat one.
He's amongst the herd with the rest of the calves.
I got a herd of cattle and horses and the finest sheep, hogs and chickens.
Why, Luz, everybody in the county knows you'd rather herd cattle than make love!
You'll be roped in with the herd.

News and current affairs

Though Russia's public debt is modest, its foreign-exchange reserves large, and its economy much stronger than in 1998, once the herd is running, it is impossible to stop it.
Prisons herd together angry, unruly people against their will.
All of a sudden tremendously destructive herd-driven financial crises were back: Mexico, Thailand, Korea, Brazil, and so on looked like nothing as much as the US financial panic of 1873 or the Austrian Creditanstalt crisis of 1931.
This means that they have less incentive to herd - to buy or sell a currency just because everyone else is buying or selling it.
Herd behavior arises, Keynes thought, not from attempts to deceive, but from the fact that, in the face of the unknown, we seek safety in numbers.
But, under other conditions, individuals influence one another in such a way that the crowd becomes a herd, led by a few.
And the plumbing malfunctioned because herd behavior - shaped by policies in ways that we are only now coming to understand - overwhelmed it.
Together, they protect and take care of all the young in their herd, running a kind of daycare center.
But, I was also pleased from the point of view of a citizen, with a strong dislike of the herd mentality.

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