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{
"term": "sheep",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "an animal with a thick coat, kept on farms for its meat (called mutton or lamb) or its wool",
"labels": "(figurative)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a flock of sheep"
},
{
"text": "Sheep were grazing in the fields."
},
{
"text": "sheep farmers"
},
{
"text": "These leaves are toxic to cattle and sheep."
},
{
"text": "My grandfather used to raise sheep in Australia."
},
{
"text": "The dogs herded the sheep into the pen."
},
{
"text": "a 4 000-acre sheep station in New South Wales"
},
{
"text": "He sees it as his duty to take care of the lost sheep of the world."
}
],
"topics": ["Animals"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["hill", "mountain", "lost"],
"… of sheep": ["flock", "herd"],
"verb + sheep": ["farm", "keep", "raise"],
"sheep + verb": ["graze", "bleat"],
"sheep + noun": ["farm", "ranch", "station"],
"phrases": ["a breed of sheep"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to imagine that sheep are jumping over a fence and to count them, as a way of getting to sleep",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "if people behave like sheep, they all do what the others are doing, without thinking for themselves",
"labels": "(disapproving)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "if you are going to be punished for doing something wrong, whether it is a big or small thing, you may as well do the big thing",
"labels": "(saying)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to recognize the difference between people who are good at something, intelligent, etc. and those who are not",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a person who seems to be friendly or not likely to cause any harm but is really an enemy",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ʃiːp/",
"audio": "sh/sheep/sheep__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ʃiːp/",
"audio": "sh/sheep/sheep__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English scēp, scǣp, scēap, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch schaap and German Schaf."
}