A male sheep tender
shepherd
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for shepherd.
Editorial note
For a primitive example of the above in action, try to deprive a German shepherd of a working role.
Quick take
A male sheep tender
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of shepherd gathered in one view.
A male watcher/guardian/guider/leader
A male pastor
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for shepherd.
noun
A male sheep tender
See also: sheepherder, sheepman
noun
A male watcher/guardian/guider/leader
See also: sheepherder, sheepman
noun
A male pastor
See also: sheepherder, sheepman
noun
An English surname originating as an occupation.
See also: sheepherder, sheepman
Example sentences
For a primitive example of the above in action, try to deprive a German shepherd of a working role.
If he can discourage it or delay it long enough for the shepherd to come, he has done his job.
If you're on target, they will be interested, and you can shepherd the deal towards a close from that point.
But if I'm going to continue to shepherd this beast forward, there's no point in hiding its flaws.
Make it easy to build and add plugins and let the community shepherd them.
But then I think of Occam's Razor and remember that people are in essence just sheep wanting to be shepherd.
The right thing to do, if someone believes something is misclassified, is to follow those procedures and shepherd that case through that system of people.
In addition, there's the fact a professor, being an expert, can shepherd post-graduate students through the process of becoming professors and doing independent research in the field.
Double-unfortunately, apparently the cops decided I was a serious threat, and several minutes later I looked out the window to a police car in my own alley, following a cop with a german shepherd.
I'm saying that UBI proponents need to say 'it'll cost X, we'll save Y by slashing all this bureaucracy, the rest will come from Z,' as well as some sort of strategy to shepherd it through the political process, figure how it will mesh with immigration policy, and so on.
Quote examples
Do a Google Images search for "herding game" and you will see a ton of 2D shepherd games.
Boy that sounded creepy, I think the title should be changed to the article's one: "Air Shepherd Drones Stop Elephant & Rhino Poaching"
Probably the most straightforward way to generate "harsh" noise (there's blue and violet noise, emphasizing above 1kHz, according to Brian Shepherd's synthesizer textbook) is to run random parameters into a Yamaha DX7.
So you have to carefully shepherd new statements in as they are executed (scanning for "ok".) Would be a perfect use for flow control, if arduino didn't already use it for something else.
Proper noun examples
For a while, Sea Shepherd's vessels sailed under the flag of the Iroquois Nation.
Someone (Darren Shepherd?) compared Docker to Ajax.
Sean has made acclaimed solo appearances and shared the stage with vibraphonist Michel Hausser, bassist Bruce Lett, drummer Mack Gordon, pianist Llew Matthews, bassist Putter Smith, drummer Mourad Benhammou as well as jazz veteran Shep Shepherd, among others.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use shepherd in a sentence?
For a primitive example of the above in action, try to deprive a German shepherd of a working role.
What does shepherd mean?
A male sheep tender
What part of speech is shepherd?
shepherd is commonly used as noun.