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• herd — I. /hɜd / (say herd) noun 1. a number of animals, especially cattle, kept, feeding, or travelling together; drove; flock. 2. Obsolete a mob (of kangaroos). 3. a large company of people. 4. the herd, the common people; the rabble. –verb (i) 5. to… …  

• herd — n. 1) to drive; round up a herd 2) to tend a herd 3) (misc.) to ride herd on ( to control ) * * * [hɜːd] round up a herd to drive to tend a herd (misc.) to ride herd on ( to control ) …   Combinatory dictionary

• herd — herd1 [hʉrd] n. [ME < OE heord, akin to Ger herde < IE base * kerdho , a row, group > Sans s̍árdha, a herd, troop] 1. a number of cattle, sheep, or other animals feeding, living, or being driven together 2. a) any large group suggestive… …   English World dictionary

• tend — [v1] be apt, likely aim, bear, be biased, be conducive, be disposed, be inclined, be in the habit of, be liable, bend, be predisposed, be prejudiced, conduce, contribute, dispose, drift, favor, go, gravitate, have an inclination, have a tendency …   New thesaurus

• Herd — Covey redirects here. For other uses, see Covey (disambiguation). For other uses, see Herd (disambiguation). Boy herding a flock of sheep, India; a classic example of the domestic herding of animals …   Wikipedia

• herd — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 group of animals ADJECTIVE ▪ great, huge, large, vast ▪ small ▪ entire, whole ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• herd — I [[t]hɜrd[/t]] n. 1) a number of animals feeding, traveling, or kept together; drove; flock: a herd of zebras; a herd of sheep; a herd of cattle[/ex] 2) sts off a large group of people; crowd; mob: a herd of autograph seekers[/ex] 3) a large… …   From formal English to slang

• herd — herd1 /herrd/, n. 1. a number of animals kept, feeding, or traveling together; drove; flock: a herd of cattle; a herd of sheep; a herd of zebras. 2. Sometimes Disparaging. a large group of people: The star was mobbed by a herd of autograph… …   Universalium

• herd — n. & v. n. 1 a large number of animals, esp. cattle, feeding or travelling or kept together. 2 (prec. by the) derog. a large number of people; a mob (prefers not to follow the herd). 3 (esp. in comb.) a keeper of herds; a herdsman (cowherd). v. 1 …   Useful english dictionary

• herd — 1. noun 1) a herd of cows Syn: drove, flock, pack, fold; group, collection 2) a herd of actors Syn: crowd, group, bunch, horde, mob, host, pack …   Thesaurus of popular words

• herd — I n 1. flock, drove, pack, bunch, cluster. 2.Disparaging. throng, crowd, multitude, host, horde, crush, press, mass. 3. the herd the hoi polloi, the masses, the many, the commonality, the great unwashed; rabble, ruck, rout, riffraff. v 4. flock,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder