lamb

«lamb» in Mova's school dictionary: a young sheep — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (lamb, lambs); verb (lamb, lambs, lambed, lambing)

meaning for a pupil

1) A lamb is a young sheep. tree →

2) Lamb is the meat of a young sheep. tree →

3) A lamb is a gentle, kind person, often a child: «you're a lamb». tree →

4) To lamb is for a sheep to give birth. tree →

sense in the lessons

a young animal counted on a farm; sheep and lambs may be added together; in science: lambs are mammals, born in spring, they drink their mother's milk, a lamb grows into a sheep; in stories and rhymes: «Mary had a little lamb»; phrases: «like a lamb» (quietly, gently), «lambing season»

examples

• The farm has 20 sheep and 9 lambs. tree →
• Each sheep had 2 lambs. tree →
• 5 lambs were born this week. tree →
• How many legs do 6 lambs have? tree →
• Lambs are born in spring. tree →
• Mary had a little lamb. tree →
• The lamb drank milk from its mother. tree →
• We had roast lamb for Sunday lunch. tree →
• He went to bed as gentle as a lamb. tree →
• "Baa!" there he stood like a baa-lamb. tree →

note

A counted animal; «each sheep had 2 lambs» is a rate. Trap: lambs have 4 legs each (6 lambs → 24 legs). Silent b: «lamb» sounds like «lam». A sheep and its lambs added: all animals = sheep + lambs.

In the corpora

• Within about half an hour a healthy lamb is standing and drinking.
• Dogs chasing sheep kill and injure many lambs every spring.
• Grandad's sheepdog Bess nips Chloe's heels, herding her like a lost lamb, until Grandad whistles her off.
• The prophet Isaiah dreamed of a world where the wolf lives with the lamb and swords are beaten into ploughshares.
• And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «lamb» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.