different between herd vs stud

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /h?d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d
• Homophone: heard

Etymology 1

From Middle English herde, heerde, heorde, from Old English hierd, heord (“herd, flock; keeping, care, custody”), from Proto-Germanic *herd? (“herd”), from Proto-Indo-European *?erd?- (“file, row, herd”). Cognate with German Herde, Swedish hjord. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian herdhe (“nest”) and Serbo-Croatian krdo.

Noun

herd (plural herds)

1. A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. [from 11th c.]
   • 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,

     The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea.

2. Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company. [from 13th c.]
   • 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,

     Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd.

3. (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble. [from 15th c.]
   • 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk, 8 June 1833

     You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question.

Derived terms

• herd immunity
• herd instinct

Translations

Verb

herd (third-person singular simple present herds, present participle herding, simple past and past participle herded)

1. (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.

   Sheep herd on many hills.
2. (transitive) To unite or associate in a herd
3. (transitive) To manage, care for or guard a herd

4. (intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.

   • I’ll herd among his friends, and seem
     One of the number.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English herde, from Old English hirde, hierde, from Proto-West Germanic *hird?, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz. Cognate with German Hirte, Swedish herde, Danish hyrde.

Noun

herd (plural herds)

1. (now rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.
   • 2000, Alasdair Grey, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury 2002, page 38:

     Any talent which gives a good new thing to others is a miracle, but commentators have thought it extra miraculous that England's first known poet was an illiterate herd.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

herd (third-person singular simple present herds, present participle herding, simple past and past participle herded)

1. (intransitive, Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
2. (transitive) To form or put into a herd.
3. (transitive) To move or drive a herd.

Translations

See also

• Appendix:English collective nouns
• drove
• gather
• muster
• round up
• ride herd on

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

herd

1. imperative of herde

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *herþ.

Noun

herd m

1. hearth

Descendants

• Middle High German: hert
  • German: Herd
  • Luxembourgish: Häerd

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English stood, stod, from Old English st?d, from Proto-Germanic *st?d?. Cognate with Middle Low German st?t, German Stute, Dutch stoet and Old Norse stóð.

Pronunciation

• enPR: st?d, IPA^(key): /st?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

stud (plural studs)

1. A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.

   Synonym: sire

2. A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
3. (by extension, collective) A group of such animals.
4. An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
5. A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
   • 1673, Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, An Essay upon the Advancement of Trade in Ireland

     In the studs of persons of quality in Ireland, where care is taken, […] we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigour, and size.

6. (colloquial) A sexually attractive male; also a lover in great demand.

   Synonyms: he-man, hunk, stallion

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English studu.

Noun

stud (plural studs)

1. A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
2. (jewelry) A small round earring.

3. (construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
4. (obsolete) A stem; a trunk.

   • Seest not this same hawthorn stud?

5. (poker) A type of poker where an individual cannot throw cards away and some of her cards are exposed.

   Synonym: stud poker
6. (engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
7. (engineering) A stud bolt.
8. An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.

Derived terms

• studded

Translations

Verb

stud (third-person singular simple present studs, present participle studding, simple past and past participle studded)

1. To set with studs; to furnish with studs.
2. To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals.
3. To set (something) over a surface at intervals.
   • 2010, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Rose's Heavenly Cakes:

     Stud the cake all over with chocolate chips, pointed ends in.

Etymology 3

Noun

stud (plural studs)

1. Clipping of student.

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• Dust, UDTs, dust, duts

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stud? (“cold, shame”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?stut]

Noun

stud m

1. shame (uncomfortable or painful feeling)

Related terms

• nestoudný m
• nestydatý m
• ostuda f
• ostudný m
• styd?t se
• stydký m

Further reading

• stud in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• stud in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sd?u?ð], [?sd?uð?]
• Rhymes: -u??ð

Noun

stud c (singular definite studen, plural indefinite stude)

1. bullock, steer
2. boor, oaf

Declension

References

• “stud” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Noun

stud m (plural studs, diminutive studje n)

1. colloquial (in the Netherlands) abbreviation of student

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

French

Etymology

From English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /styd/

Noun

stud m (plural studs)

1. stud where stallions and mares are bred to improve the equine race
2. assembly of horses for sale or racing

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stud?.

Noun

st?d f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (expressively) cold

Declension