sheep


Definition: Meaning of, sheep in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ʃiːp /

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sheep sheep
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  1. a farm animal that is kept for its wool and its meat
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  2. like sheep if people behave like sheep, they do not think independently, but follow what everyone else does or thinks
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  3. separate the sheep from the goats British English to find out which people are intelligent, skilful, successful etc, and which are not
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  4. make sheep's eyes at somebody old-fashioned to look at someone in a way that shows you love them
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sheep used in phrases

  • Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
    1. a NURSERY RHYME (= old song or poem for young children) The rhyme goes: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep,/ Have you any wool?/Yes, sir, yes, sir/ Three bags full./ One for the master,/ One for the dame,/ and one for the little boy/ who lives down the lane.
  • Barbary sheep (noun)
    1. wild sheep of northern Africa
  • Dall sheep (noun)
    1. large white wild sheep of northwestern Canada and Alaska
  • Dall's sheep (noun)
    1. large white wild sheep of northwestern Canada and Alaska
  • Dolly the sheep
    1. a sheep who was CLONE d by British scientists in 1997. They took a cell from her body and then developed it artificially so that it became a new sheep that was an exact copy of her.
  • Marco Polo sheep (noun)
    1. or Ovis ammon asiatic wild sheep with exceptionally large horns; sometimes considered a variety of the argali
  • Marco Polo's sheep (noun)
    1. or Ovis ammon asiatic wild sheep with exceptionally large horns; sometimes considered a variety of the argali
  • Rocky Mountain sheep (noun)
    1. wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns
  • Shetland sheep dog (noun)
    1. a small sheepdog resembling a collie that was developed in the Shetland Islands
  • bighorn sheep (noun)
    1. a wild sheep with long curved horns that lives in the mountains of western North America
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