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lamb

1

[ lam ]

noun

  1. a young sheep.
  2. the meat of a young sheep.
  3. a person who is gentle, meek, innocent, etc.:

    Their little daughter is such a lamb.

  4. a person who is easily cheated or outsmarted, especially an inexperienced speculator.
  5. the Lamb, Christ.


verb (used without object)

  1. to give birth to a lamb.

Lamb

2

[ lam ]

noun

  1. Charles Elia, 1775鈥1834, English essayist and critic.
  2. Harold A., 1892鈥1962, U.S. novelist.
  3. Mary Ann, 1764鈥1847, English author who wrote in collaboration with her brother Charles Lamb.
  4. William, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, 1779鈥1848, English statesman: prime minister 1834, 1835鈥41.
  5. Willis E(ugene), Jr., 1913鈥2008, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1955.

lamb

1

/ 濒忙尘 /

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
    1. without resistance
    2. innocently
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. Alsolamb down intr (of a ewe) to give birth
  2. tr; used in the passive (of a lamb) to be born
  3. intr (of a shepherd) to tend the ewes and newborn lambs at lambing time
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Lamb

2

/ 濒忙尘 /

noun

  1. the Lamb
    a title given to Christ in the New Testament
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Lamb

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/ 濒忙尘 /

noun

  1. LambCharles17751834MEnglishWRITING: essayistWRITING: critic Charles, pen name Elia. 1775鈥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) Melbourne 2
  3. LambWillis Eugene19132008MUSSCIENCE: physicist Willis Eugene. 1913鈥2008, US physicist. He detected the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom ( Lamb shift ). Nobel prize for physics 1955
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞濒补尘产藢濒颈办别, adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of lamb1

First recorded before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Dutch lam, German Lamm, Old Norse, Gothic lamb; akin to Greek 茅濒补辫丑辞蝉 鈥渄别别谤鈥; elk
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of lamb1

Old English lamb, from Germanic; compare German Lamm, Old High German and Old Norse lamb
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Pork, beef, lamb, mutton, goat, venison and any other products made from these meats - such as sausages - from the EU have been banned.

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All along this street you can get potatoes with spicy sauce, lamb skewers, fresh orange juice and the traditional clothing of the Naxi people.

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The favorite at 2-1 is Irish stew, that hearty concoction of lamb, potatoes and vegetable.

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It's a beef and arable farm, with a few lambs and pigs for their meat business selling to local customers.

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The lambs of the affected ewe tested negative for bird flu, the spokesperson added.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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