cattle
US: /ˈkætəɫ/
UK: /kˈætəl/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
cattle /'kætl/- danh từ
- thú nuôi, gia súc
- (thông tục) ngựa
- những kẻ đáng khinh, những kẻ thô lỗ, vũ phu
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun[pl.] cows and BULLS that are kept as farm animals for their milk or meat: a herd of cattle + twenty head of cattle (= twenty cows) + dairy / beef cattle + The prisoners were herded into trucks like cattle.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
livestock, stock, beef; cows, bulls, bullocks, steers, bovines, oxen:
He spent 20 years as a cowboy, herding cattle in Texas.
Collocation
ADJ.
beef, dairy | horned | highland, hill, upland | lowland | indigenous, native | wild
QUANT.
head
5,000 head of cattle died of the disease in one month.
| herd
VERB + CATTLE
keep, rear | breed | tend | graze
Villagers traditionally have the right to graze their cattle on the common land.
| drive, herd, round up
Farmers drove cattle along major roads as a protest against high taxes.
| slaughter | raid, rustle, steal | domesticate
Cattle were first domesticated in Neolithic times.
CATTLE + VERB
browse, graze
cattle grazing in the fields
| low | stray, wander
Cattle that stray onto the electric railway line are killed instantly.
CATTLE + NOUN
auction, market | breeding, ranching, rearing | breeder, dealer, farmer | farm, ranch | feed, food | grid
There was a cattle grid across the road to stop the cows escaping.
| prod
Electric cattle prods were used against the demonstrators.
| truck
PHRASES
a breed of cattle
Concise dictionary
'kætlnoun
+domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age
