sheep
US: /ˈʃip/
UK: /ʃˈiːp/
UK: /ʃˈiːp/
English Vietnamese dictionary
sheep /ʃi:p/
- danh từ, số nhiều không đổi
- con cừu
- ((thường) số nhiều & mỉa) con chiên
- da cừu
- người hay e thẹn, người nhút nhát
- to cast sheep's eyes
- liếc mắt đưa tình
- to follow like sheep
- đi theo một cách mù quáng
- sheep that have no shepherd
- quân vô tướng, hổ vô đấu
- as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
- (xem) lamb
- wolf in sheep's clothing
- (xem) wolf
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
(plural sheep) an animal with a thick coat, kept on farms for its meat (called MUTTON or LAMB) or its wool: a flock of sheep + Sheep were grazing in the fields.
Compare: EWE, LAMB, RAM
See also -
Idioms: like sheep (disapproving) if people behave like sheep, they all do what the others are doing, without thinking for themselves
sort out / separate the sheep from the goats to distinguish good people from bad people
more at COUNT v., WOLF n.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
hill | lost, stray
the doleful cries of lost sheep
QUANT.
flock, herd
VERB + SHEEP
farm, keep, raise, rear
My grandfather used to raise sheep in Wales.
| tend | slaughter | shear | drive, herd, round up, shepherd
The dogs herded the sheep into the pen.
SHEEP + VERB
graze
There were a lot of sheep grazing high up on the mountain.
| bleat, (go) baa | lamb
It's nearly the sheep's lambing time.
SHEEP + NOUN
farm, station
a 4,000-acre sheep station in New South Wales
| farmer | farming, industry | dip | dog
(also
sheepdog
)
| flock | pasture | shearing
PHRASES
a breed of sheep
Concise English dictionary
ʃɪːp
noun
+woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat
+a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon
+a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision
