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shepard

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for shepard.

Editorial note

The soundtrack is a Shepard tone and is actually pretty cool too!

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Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of shepard gathered in one view.

noun

A surname.

verb

Misspelling of shepherd. [(transitive) To watch over; to guide.]

noun

Misspelling of shepherd. [(countable) A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shepard.

noun

A surname.

verb

Misspelling of shepherd. [(transitive) To watch over; to guide.]

noun

Misspelling of shepherd. [(countable) A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.]

noun

Alternative form of Shepherd. [An English surname originating as an occupation.]

Example sentences

1

The soundtrack is a Shepard tone and is actually pretty cool too!

2

For this, you turn to a series of books from the Frank Shepard Company.

3

Take the case of Shepard Fairey's use of the AP's photograph of Obama.

4

No matter what choices you make in the Mass Effect games, Shepard always winds up in the same places doing the same things.

5

German Shepard with American flags for ears and a German flag tongue.

6

Vehicles designed for suborbital tourism like Spaceship Two, Lynx, and New Shepard aren't traveling more than a couple hundred km without a second stage.

7

It truly does not matter if your Shepard is the sort of person who holds all life sacred or a hardened killer who ruthlessly throws people off of highrises when mildly annoyed.

8

I'd like to see (a) other CA shipments, say non-computer items, to Alexandria - and whether they go via Dulles and (b) a followup indicating whether Shepard found anything of interest.

9

So basically a rocket like the Falcon 9 will appear to be traveling much slower than a much shorter rocket like the New Shepard for the same reason a 747 on landing approach looks like it is traveling much slower than a 737 traveling at the same speed.

Quote examples

1

Mark Shepard, who's farm is in Wisconsin, has a large scale example of "Restoration Agriculture".

2

A subsequent study by medical anthropologist Glenn Shepard of the Paraense Emilio Goeldi Museum in Belém, Brazil, revealed that some 300 people died, between 50% and 60% of the population." It's a tragic illustration of one of the points of Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs, and Steel.

Proper noun examples

1

They are frequently awed by the eloquence of Shepard's finely voiced responses and feel a tremendous boost due to simultaneously identifying themselves as Shepard.

2

Was he CIA or was he in the black ops commercial company -- the one that wrote Shepard?

3

Shepard didn't retire, and my father had him as a GP; my father would still be alive?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use shepard in a sentence?

The soundtrack is a Shepard tone and is actually pretty cool too!

What does shepard mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is shepard?

shepard is commonly used as noun, verb.