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herd
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)
- 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.
- 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,
- 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.
- 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,
- (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.
- 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk, 8 June 1833
Derived terms
- herd immunity
- herd instinct
Translations
Verb
herd (third-person singular simple present herds, present participle herding, simple past and past participle herded)
- (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
- Sheep herd on many hills.
- (transitive) To unite or associate in a herd
- (transitive) To manage, care for or guard a herd
- (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.
- I’ll herd among his friends, and seem
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)
- (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.
- 2000, Alasdair Grey, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury 2002, page 38:
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
herd (third-person singular simple present herds, present participle herding, simple past and past participle herded)
- (intransitive, Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
- (transitive) To form or put into a herd.
- (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
- imperative of herde
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *herþ.
Noun
herd m
- hearth
Descendants
- Middle High German: hert
- German: Herd
- Luxembourgish: Häerd
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surge
English
Etymology
From Middle English surgen, possibly from Middle French sourgir, from Old French surgir (“to rise, ride near the shore, arrive, land”), from Old Catalan surgir, from Latin surg?, contr. of surrig?, subrig? (“lift up, raise, erect; intransitive rise, arise, get up, spring up, grow, etc.”, transitive verb), from sub (“from below; up”) + reg? (“to stretch”); see regent.
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: sûrj IPA(key): /s?d?/
- (UK) IPA(key): /s??d?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d?
- Homophone: serge
Noun
surge (plural surges)
- A sudden transient rush, flood or increase.
- The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation
- (electricity) A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.
- (aviation) A momentary reversal of the airflow through the compressor section of a jet engine due to disruption of the airflow entering the engine's air intake, accompanied by loud banging noises, emission of flame, and temporary loss of thrust.
- (nautical) The swell or heave of the sea. (FM 55-501).
- 1901, Bible (American Standard Version), James i. 6
- He that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
- He flies aloft, and, with impetuous roar, / Pursues the foaming surges to the shore.
- 1901, Bible (American Standard Version), James i. 6
- (obsolete) A spring; a fountain.
- 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
- all great rivers are gorged and assembled of various surges and springs of water
- 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
- The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
Synonyms
- inrush
Derived terms
- countersurge
- surgeless
Translations
Verb
surge (third-person singular simple present surges, present participle surging, simple past and past participle surged)
- (intransitive) To rush, flood, or increase suddenly.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
- To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly.
- (transitive, nautical) To slack off a line.
Related terms
- source
Translations
References
- surge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- surge in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- FM 55-501
Anagrams
- Ruges, grues, urges
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -urd?e
Verb
surge
- third-person singular present indicative of surgere
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?sur.?e/, [?s??r??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?sur.d??e/, [?surd???]
Verb
surge
- second-person singular present active imperative of surg?
- (Matt. IX. v.5)
Arise, and walk. (KJV)
Portuguese
Verb
surge
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of surgir
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of surgir
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?su?xe/, [?su?.xe]
Verb
surge
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of surgir.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of surgir.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of surgir.
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