Tra từ lamb - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pork/lamb chop
▪ a grilled pork/lamb chop
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
little
▪ That evening I repeat the experiment with a little lamb.
▪ The little lamb was curled on top of the arched stone, its small snout poking aggressively into the air.
new
▪ However, you may have noticed that the new season lamb is on offer almost throughout the year.
▪ I suppose that if we include New Zealand, we can claim to have new season lamb practically all year long.
▪ My view is that most new season lamb is not worthy of the name.
▪ Whenever he discovered a half-dead new lamb, he brought the creature into the hut.
▪ The new jolly lambs Are pleased with their nursery.
roast
▪ There was foie gras and lobster-but also fine roast lamb with apple pie.
▪ A house up the road, Sunday afternoon about 1958, plates of roast lamb offered.
▪ The roast fillet of lamb with herb crust to follow is a classic dish, presented by Clayton with great finesse.
▪ His recipe for roast lamb triumphed in the regional heats and he hopes it will be picked again next month.
▪ Except that he ate venison and roast lamb, and drank milk laced with honey, or hot mead fragrant with herbs.
▪ They consumed avocado pears followed by roast lamb followed by a fruit salad and assorted cheeses.
sacrificial
▪ One sacrificial lamb has been offered.
▪ Needless to say it has so far proved difficult to find any sacrificial lambs among the building trade.
▪ From his self-proclaimed position as guardian of the rightwing flock, he has become a sacrificial lamb.
NOUN
chop
▪ Apart from the inevitable sausages, there were numerous chicken pieces, lamb chops and cubed steak on skewers.
▪ Faith has asked for two high quality lamb chops and steak.
▪ I collapse over my lamb chops and have to be put to bed.
▪ I cradled the bottom of the paper bag containing my lamb chops.
▪ It's easy to see the fat on a lamb chop - and easy to cut it off.
▪ Sometime between the lamb chops and the chocolate mousse, Maestro Domingo presented his illustrious cast.
▪ I fooled around with a lamb chop for a while, but decided I wasn't really very hungry after all.
▪ Then I went up to the store and bought lamb chops for dinner.
spring
▪ However, much younger and very tender spring lamb traditionally comes into the shops for the Easter weekend.
▪ Lamb may be baby lamb, spring lamb, and lamb.
▪ Numerous new buyers in attendance resulting in a sharp demand for spring lambs.
stew
▪ There was a choice of vegetarian lasagne or lamb stew with baked potatoes, sweet corn and garlic bread.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I/you might as well be hanged for a sheep as (for) a lamb
a rack of lamb/pork
▪ The waiter lifted the salver to reveal a rack of lamb surrounded by courgettes and tiny new potatoes.
mutton dressed as lamb
saddle of lamb/hare/venison
▪ He is particularly fond of hot beetroot, recommending it as an accompaniment to roast saddle of hare - a delicious combination.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ lamb stew
▪ In spite of his bad temper, Norman can sometimes be a lamb.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Akiko, the minister cried, the sins of the body will be washed away by the blood of the lamb.
▪ Classifications of sheep are lamb, yearling mutton, and mutton.
▪ Eild ewes are those which are not in lamb.
▪ The traditional filling is a spicy mixture of minced lamb or beef, tomato and onion.
▪ There were 810 breeding ewes, ewe lambs, and rams on offer.
▪ To decide to buy hamburger instead of sirloin steak, or leg of lamb, or shrimp is not easy either.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rack of lamb/pork
▪ The waiter lifted the salver to reveal a rack of lamb surrounded by courgettes and tiny new potatoes.
mutton dressed as lamb
saddle of lamb/hare/venison
▪ He is particularly fond of hot beetroot, recommending it as an accompaniment to roast saddle of hare - a delicious combination.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In April, the demands on farm labour peaked with lambing often coinciding with other spring work.
▪ Many flocks were now lambing twice per year.

lamb

I. lamb¹ S3 /læm/ noun
[Language : Old English]
1.
[COUNTABLE]
a young sheep

2. [UNCOUNTABLE]
the meat of a young sheep ⇨ mutton:
　 ▪ roast lamb
　 ▪ a leg of lamb
lamb chop/cutlet/stew etc

3. [COUNTABLE]
spoken used to talk to or talk about someone who is gentle and lovable, especially a child:
　 ▪ Ben’s asleep now, the little lamb.

4. like a lamb to the slaughter
used when someone is going to do something dangerous, but they do not realize it or have no choice

5. like a lamb
quietly and without any argument:
　 ▪ Suzie went off to school like a lamb today.
⇨ mutton dressed as lamb at mutton(2)

II. lamb² verb [INTRANSITIVE]
to give birth to lambs:
　 ▪ The ewes are lambing this week.

—lambing noun [UNCOUNTABLE]:
　 ▪ the lambing season