different between lamb vs sheet

English

Etymology

From Middle English lamb, from Old English lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz (compare Dutch lam, German Lamm, Swedish lamm, Finnish lammas), from Proto-Indo-European *h?l?h?onb?os (compare Scottish Gaelic lon (“elk”), Ancient Greek ?????? (élaphos, “red deer”)), enlargement of *h?elh?én. More at elk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Noun

lamb (plural lambs or (dialectal) lamber or (dialectal) lambren)

1. A young sheep.
2. The flesh of a lamb or sheep used as food.
3. (figuratively) A person who is meek, docile and easily led.
4. A simple, unsophisticated person.
5. (finance, slang) One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.

Synonyms

• sheepling

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

lamb (third-person singular simple present lambs, present participle lambing, simple past and past participle lambed)

1. (intransitive) Of a sheep, to give birth.
2. (transitive or intransitive) To assist (sheep) to give birth.

   The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.

Translations

Anagrams

• ALBM, BAML, LBMA, balm, blam

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

Noun

lamb n (genitive singular lambs, plural lomb)

1. lamb (both the animal and meat)
2. kid (baby goat)
3. (playing cards, stýrivolt) seven of the chosen cards (trump seven)

Declension

Derived terms

• gimburlamb (female lamb)
• veðurlamb (male lamb)

Gothic

Romanization

lamb

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lamp/
• Rhymes: -amp

Noun

lamb n (genitive singular lambs, nominative plural lömb)

1. a lamb

Declension

Derived terms

• launa lambið gráa
• ljúfur sem lamb
• vatna lömbum (compare the Old Norse krjúpa at keldu)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lomb, lombe, loumbe, lambe

Etymology

From Old English lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lam(b)/, /l?m(b)/

Noun

lamb (plural lambes or lamber or lambren)

1. A lamb, its meat, or its skin.
2. A Christian believer.

Descendants

• English: lamb
• Scots: lam, lamb
• Yola: lhawm, lowem

References

• “l??mb, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse lamb.

Noun

lamb n (definite singular lambet, definite singular dative lambe, indefinite plural lomb, definite plural lombi, definite plural dative lombom)

1. a lamb (young sheep); form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by lam
2. (by extension, Christianity, figuratively) Christ as sacrificial lamb

Inflection

Derived terms

• lambekjøt
• påskelamb (“Passover lamb, Paschal Lamb”)

Old English

Alternative forms

• lemb, lomb, lomber

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?mb/

Noun

lamb n (nominative plural lambru)

1. lamb

Declension

West Saxon:

Anglian:

Descendants

• Middle English: lamb, lomb, lambe
  • English: lamb
  • Scots: lam, lamb

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lambaz, whence also Old Saxon lamb, Old English lamb, Old Norse lamb, Gothic ???????????????? (lamb)

Noun

lamb n

1. lamb

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: lamp, lam
  • Cimbrian: lamp
  • German: Lamm
  • Luxembourgish: Lamm
  • Vilamovian: ?amm
  • Yiddish: ????? (lam)

References

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
2. Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

Noun

lamb n (genitive lambs, plural l?mb)

1. a lamb

Declension

Descendants

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

Noun

lamb n

1. lamb

Declension

Descendants

• Low German: Lamm

English

Etymology

From Middle English schete; partly from Old English s??ete (“a sheet, a piece of linen cloth”); partly from Old English s??ata (“a corner, angle; the lower corner of a sail, sheet”); and Old English s??at (“a corner, angle”); all from Proto-Germanic *skautij?, *skautaz (“corner, wedge, lap”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to throw, shoot, pursue, rush”). Cognate with North Frisian skut (“the fold of a garment, lap, coattail”), West Frisian skoat (“sheet; sail; lap”), Dutch schoot (“the fold of a garment, lap, sheet”), German Low German Schote (“a line from the foot of a sail”), German Schoß (“the fold of a garment, lap”), Swedish sköt (“sheet”), Icelandic skaut (“the corner of a cloth, a line from the foot of a sail, the skirt or sleeve of a garment, a hood”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?it/
• Hyphenation: sheet
• Rhymes: -i?t

Noun

sheet (plural sheets)

1. A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
2. A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc.

   Holonyms: signature, quire

   Meronyms: leaf, folium, page

3. A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.

4. A thin, flat layer of solid material.

5. A broad, flat expanse of a material on a surface.

6. (nautical) A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.

7. (nautical, nonstandard) A sail.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

8. (curling) The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.
9. (nonstandard) A layer of veneer.
10. (figuratively) Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.
11. (geology) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
12. (nautical) The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.

13. (video games, dated) A distinct level or stage within a game.
    • 1984 February, Sinclair Programs

      If you land safely you will gain 30 extra points and move to the next sheet.

    • 1984, Chris Passey and Matthew Uffindell, Run It Again, in Crash issue 4 [1]

      What distinguishes Eskimo Eddie from the others is that it has two totally different sheets in the game. […] In the first sheet, Frogger style, you have to rescue Percy penguin from Growler the bear.

Synonyms

• (piece of paper): page
• (line): rope
• (expanse of material): blanket, coat, coating, layer

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

• (thin layer of solid material): film
• (expanse of material): film

Derived terms

Related terms

• hit the sheets
• three sheets to the wind
• under the sheets
• white as a sheet

Translations

References

• sheet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

sheet (third-person singular simple present sheets, present participle sheeting, simple past and past participle sheeted)

1. (transitive) To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.
2. (transitive) To form into sheets.
3. (intransitive) Of rain, or other precipitation, to pour heavily.

4. (nautical) To trim a sail using a sheet.

Translations

References

• sheet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• seeth, thees, these