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# lamb

«lamb» in Mova's school dictionary: **a young sheep** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (lamb, lambs); verb (lamb, lambs, lambed, lambing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A lamb is a young sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamb/#m1)

2) Lamb is the meat of a young sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamb/#m2)

3) A lamb is a gentle, kind person, often a child: «you're a lamb». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamb/#m3)

4) To lamb is for a sheep to give birth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamb/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

a young animal counted on a farm; sheep and lambs may be added together; in science: lambs are mammals, born in spring, they drink their mother's milk, a lamb grows into a sheep; in stories and rhymes: «Mary had a little lamb»; phrases: «like a lamb» (quietly, gently), «lambing season»

### examples

- The farm has 20 sheep and 9 lambs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamb/#x1)
- Each sheep had 2 lambs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamb/#x2)
- 5 lambs were born this week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamb/#x3)
- How many legs do 6 lambs have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamb/#x4)
- Lambs are born in spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamb/#x5)
- Mary had a little lamb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamb/#x6)
- The lamb drank milk from its mother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamb/#x7)
- We had roast lamb for Sunday lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamb/#x8)
- He went to bed as gentle as a lamb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamb/#x9)
- "Baa!" there he stood like a baa-lamb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamb/#x10)

### note

A counted animal; «each sheep had 2 lambs» is a rate. Trap: lambs have 4 legs each (6 lambs → 24 legs). Silent b: «lamb» sounds like «lam». A sheep and its lambs added: all animals = sheep + lambs.

### In the corpora

- [Within about half an hour a healthy lamb is standing and drinking.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/2/)
- [Dogs chasing sheep kill and injure many lambs every spring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/22/)
- [Grandad's sheepdog Bess nips Chloe's heels, herding her like a lost lamb, until Grandad whistles her off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets/13/)
- [The prophet Isaiah dreamed of a world where the wolf lives with the lamb and swords are beaten into ploughshares.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/3/)
- [And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.569/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lamb» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamb/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.