herd
herd (hʉrd)
noun
- a number of cattle, sheep, or other animals feeding, living, or being driven together
- any large group suggestive of this; crowd; company
- the common people; masses: a contemptuous term
Etymology: ME < OE heord, akin to Ger herde < IE base *kerdho-, a row, group > Sans árdha, a herd, troop
transitive verb, intransitive verb
to gather together or move as a herd, group, crowd, etc.
herd (hʉrd)
noun
a herdsman: now chiefly in combination cowherd, shepherd
Etymology: ME herde < OE hierde (akin to Ger hirt) < same base as herd
transitive verb, intransitive verb
to tend or drive as a herdsman
ride herd on
☆- to control a moving herd of (cattle) from horseback
- to keep a close or oppressive watch or control over
herd
n.
Preposition: of
- buffalo: They followed vast herds of buffalo from which they obtained most of the necessities of life.
- wildebeest: Every drum beat, keyboard line and virtuoso cheesy guitar solo thunders out of your speakers at 100mph like a herd of rampant wildebeest.
- deer: From the times of Charles I herds of deer had occupied Richmond Park, at that time outside of the city of London.
- cattle: A herd of 20 cattle can be treated for about £ 8. Even the white man can see sense in the policy.
- cow: The children learned former residents used to take herds of cows down the high street which was then just a dirt track.
- elephant: A herd of wild elephant can do a great deal of damage to a farmer's crops.
Converse of object
- calve: With a shift to spring calving herds, more beef producers left bull buying until the sales early in the year.
- restock: Raiding has always been used as a strategy to restock herds during or after a drought.
- migrate: Narrow, funnel valleys and dead ends were typically chosen, where migrating herds would be naturally slowed down or brought to a halt.
Adjective modifier
- infected: In its most recent study, obtained by CTV News, the number of infected dairy herds had risen.
- Friesian: Since early last year milk has been supplied from a Friesian herd near Maryport.
- closed: It was stated that a source material from a BSE free closed herd should be acceptable.
Modifies a noun
- immunity: The findings implied benefits for herd immunity from natural infection against herpes zoster in adults.
- instinct: Two put in more than half the money ( yes, a key investor will trigger the herd instinct ).
Noun used with modifier
- suckler: Has suckler herd 40 cows, 90 head cattle.
- dairy: The group finished their visit with dairy herd manager Mike Davies giving a tour of the new parlor.
- pedigree: Single Gloucester can, by official designation, only be made on farms in Gloucestershire which have a pedigree herd of Gloucester cattle.
- beef: For example, Continental breeds now dominate the national beef herd.
- cattle: Among goat herds 89 % success was reported On poultry farms 92 % success was achieved Among cattle herds success was 100 % .
- deer: The damage to forestry by deer herds is considerable.
Moralit a« t ist Herden-Instinkt im Einzelnen. Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
But far more numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much.
The dissenter is every human being at those moments in his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
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