Heard vs. Herd — What's the Difference?

To perceive (sound) by the ear

A herd is a social group of certain animals of the same species, either wild or domestic. The form of collective animal behavior associated with this is called herding.

To learn by hearing; be told by others

A group of cattle or other large herbivorous mammals of a single kind kept together for a specific purpose.

To listen to (something) attentively or in an official capacity, as in a court

A number of wild animals of one species, especially large herbivorous mammals, that remain together as a group

To listen to and consider favorably

A large number of people; a crowd

To attend or participate in

The multitude of common people regarded as a mass

To be capable of perceiving sound.

To come together in a herd

To receive news or information; learn

To gather, keep, or drive (animals) in a herd.

To consider, permit, or consent to something. Used only in the negative

To tend (sheep or cattle).

Simple past tense and past participle of hear

To gather and place into a group or mass

That has been heard or listened to; that has been aurally detected.

A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.

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Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.

Detected or perceived by the sense of hearing;

A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble.

Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.

(intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.

(transitive) To unite or associate in a herd

(transitive) To manage, care for or guard a herd

(intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.

To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.

(transitive) To form or put into a herd.

(transitive) To move or drive a herd.

Haired.

A number of beasts assembled together; as, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, deer, or swine; a particular stock or family of cattle.

A crowd of low people; a rabble.

One who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; - much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like.

To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills.

To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company.

To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.

To form or put into a herd.

A group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans

A group of wild animals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra

A crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things;

Cause to herd, drive, or crowd together;

Move together, like a herd

Keep, move, or drive animals;