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Lamb meaning in English

Meaning of Lamb in English

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Lamb

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Noun

1. lamb

young sheep

2. charles lamb, elia, lamb

English essayist (1775-1834)

3. lamb

a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters)

4. dear, lamb

a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child)

5. lamb

the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food

Verb

6. lamb

give birth to a lamb

Example Sentences:
'the ewe lambed'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Lamb

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noun
1. 
the young of a sheep
2. 
the meat of a young sheep
3. 
a person, esp a child, who is innocent, meek, good, etc
4. 
a person easily deceived
5.  like a lamb to the slaughter
verb
6. Also: lamb down (intransitive)
(of a ewe) to give birth
7. (tr; used in the passive)
(of a lamb) to be born
8. (intransitive)
(of a shepherd) to tend the ewes and newborn lambs at lambing time
noun
the Lamb
noun
1. 
Charles, pen name Elia. 1775–1834, English essayist and critic. He collaborated with his sister Mary on Tales from Shakespeare (1807). His other works include Specimens of English Dramatic Poets (1808) and the largely autobiographical essays collected in Essays of Elia (1823; 1833)
2.  William. See (2nd Viscount) Melbourne2
3. 
Willis Eugene. 1913–2008, US physicist. He detected the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom (Lamb shift). Nobel prize for physics 1955

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Lamb

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1. 
Charles(pen name Elia) 1775-1834; Eng. essayist & critic
2. 
Mary (Ann)1764-1847; Eng. writer: sister of Charles & coauthor with him of Tales from Shakespeare
3. 
Willis Eugene1913-2008; U.S. physicist
noun
1. 
a young sheep
2. 
the flesh of a young sheep, used as food
3. 
lambskin
4. 
a gentle or innocent person, particularly a child
5. 
a loved person; dear
6. 
a person easily tricked or outwitted, as an inexperienced speculator
verb intransitive
7. 
to give birth
said of a ewe

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Lamb

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n.
1.
a. A young sheep, especially one that is not yet weaned.
b. The flesh of a young sheep used as meat.
c. Lambskin.
2. A sweet, mild-mannered person; a dear.
3. One who can be duped or cheated especially in financial matters.
4. Lamb Christianity Jesus.
intr.v. lambed, lamb·ing, lambs
To give birth to a young sheep.
British critic and essayist. With his sister Mary Ann Lamb (1764-1847) he wrote the children's book Tales from Shakespeare (1807).

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