herd

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /hɜːd/    美 /hɝd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
    — a herd of cattle
  2. Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals. archaic
    — Near-synonym: herdsman
  3. Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
    — Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd.
  4. A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble. derogatory,usually
    — I was never one to follow the herd.
动词 v.
  1. To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company. intransitive
    — Sheep herd on many hills.
  2. To act as a herdsman or a shepherd. Scotland,intransitive
  3. To unite or associate in a herd transitive
  4. To form or put into a herd. transitive
  5. To manage, care for or guard a herd transitive
    — He is employed to herd the goats.
  6. To move or drive a herd. transitive
    — I heard the herd of cattle being herded home from a long way away.
  7. To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company. intransitive
    — I’ll herd among his Friends, and ſeem One of the Number, […]
  8. To move, or be moved, in a group. (of both animals and people)
    — On alighting at the station, we were all herded over the footbridge and through a side exit.

词形变化

herds plural herds present,singular,third-person herding participle,present herded participle,past herded past herds plural herds present,singular,third-person herding participle,present herded participle,past herded past

词汇关系

衍生词
bot herd flerd herd behaviour herd boar herdbook herdboy herdess herdful herdgroom herd immunity herd instinct herdless herdlike herdman herd mentality herdowner herd path herdsboy herdswoman herdthink herdwide interherd intraherd put the herd on someone share herd share-herd subherd thin the herd thundering herd thundering herd problem herdable herd cats herd together misherd unherded
相关词
drove gather muster ride herd on round up

词源

词源 1
From Middle English herde, heerde, heorde, from Old English hierd, heord (“herd, flock; keeping, care, custody”), from Proto-West Germanic *herdu, from Proto-Germanic *herdō (“herd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerdʰ- (“file, row, herd”). Cognate with German Herde, Danish hjord, Swedish hjord. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian herdhe (“nest”) and Serbo-Croatian krdo.
词源 2
From Middle English herde, from Old English hirde, hierde, from Proto-West Germanic *hirdī, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz. Cognate with German Hirte, Swedish herde, Danish hyrde.
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