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# sheep

«sheep» in Mova's school dictionary: **a farm animal with a thick woolly coat** — 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 (sheep, sheep)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sheep is a farm animal with a thick woolly coat. A sheep has 4 legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#m1)

2) Farmers keep sheep for wool, meat and milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#m2)

3) A person who just copies others is sometimes called a sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: animals counted on a farm; their legs (4 each) or wool. Science and farming: a baby sheep is a lamb, a male is a ram, a female is a ewe; shearing the wool. Everyday: counting sheep to fall asleep; New Zealand and Australia have very many sheep. Stories: the boy who cried wolf, Little Bo-Peep.

### examples

- A farmer has 45 sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#x1)
- Each sheep gives 3 kg of wool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#x2)
- 12 sheep are in the barn and the rest are in the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#x3)
- How many legs do 6 sheep have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#x4)
- The sheepdog rounded up the sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#x5)
- The farmer shears the sheep in spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#x6)
- When I can't sleep, I count sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#x7)
- A lamb is a baby sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#x8)
- "Whose sheep are these?" he asks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#x9)

### note

Plural is the same: one sheep, ten sheep (not «sheeps»). Animals counted; 4 legs each, so legs = sheep × 4. Trap: «sheep» is the same for one and many — look at the verb (is/are) or the number. Meat from sheep is lamb or mutton.

### In the corpora

- [In experiments sheep learned to recognise the faces of other sheep and of some famous people from photos.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/5/)
- [Picture a hillside: a shepherd whistles, the dog swings left round the flock, and three hundred sheep move as one.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/3/)
- [Calm, slow handling keeps sheep less stressed; stressed sheep scatter and can hurt themselves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/11/)
- [Sheepdog trials are real competitions where dog and shepherd move sheep through gates and into a pen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/14/)
- [Musk ox underwool, called qiviut, is warmer than sheep's wool, and people collect it when it falls out in spring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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