{
    "term": "sheep",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an animal with a thick coat, kept on farms for its meat (called mutton or lamb) or its wool",
            "labels": "(figurative)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a flock of sheep"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sheep were grazing in the fields."
                },
                {
                    "text": "sheep farmers"
                },
                {
                    "text": "These leaves are toxic to cattle and sheep."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My grandfather used to raise sheep in Australia."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The dogs herded the sheep into the pen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a 4 000-acre sheep station in New South Wales"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He sees it as his duty to take care of the lost sheep of the world."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Animals"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["hill", "mountain", "lost"],
                "… of sheep": ["flock", "herd"],
                "verb + sheep": ["farm", "keep", "raise"],
                "sheep + verb": ["graze", "bleat"],
                "sheep + noun": ["farm", "ranch", "station"],
                "phrases": ["a breed of sheep"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to imagine that sheep are jumping over a fence and to count them, as a way of getting to sleep",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "if people behave like sheep, they all do what the others are doing, without thinking for themselves",
            "labels": "(disapproving)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "if you are going to be punished for doing something wrong, whether it is a big or small thing, you may as well do the big thing",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to recognize the difference between people who are good at something, intelligent, etc. and those who are not",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person who seems to be friendly or not likely to cause any harm but is really an enemy",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ʃiːp/",
                "audio": "sh/sheep/sheep__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ʃiːp/",
                "audio": "sh/sheep/sheep__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English scēp, scǣp, scēap, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch schaap and German Schaf."
}