What's the difference between dazzle and herd?

Dazzle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light.
  • (v. t.) To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind.
  • (v. i.) To be overpoweringly or intensely bright; to excite admiration by brilliancy.
  • (v. i.) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
  • (n.) A light of dazzling brilliancy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
  • (2) The dazzling Deulofeu was the instigator of the first.
  • (3) Dell'Utri managed the 1994 campaign – a dazzling phantasmagoria of dancing girls under the lights, while he saw to the shadows.
  • (4) In line with his modest and humble public image, Francis exhibits a strong taste for Italian neorealist cinema, which eschewed Hollywood razzle-dazzle and told morally powerful stories set among the working class.
  • (5) Police officers resigned and politicians were embarrassed as the scandal erupted, but Scotland Yard – with dazzling cynicism – has reacted by trying to silence the kind of police whistleblowers who helped to expose the failures of their leaders; and ambitious politicians continue to dine with Rupert Murdoch.
  • (6) The script and characters were brought together with great writing and meticulous research and the abundant oversimplification was entirely forgivable for the dazzling human drama.
  • (7) He talks up the "experience" aspect of Electric Daisy Carnival, from its dazzling barrage of state-of-the-art lighting to its dance troupes whose costumes are pitched midway between harlequin and hooker.
  • (8) However, when it came to the burning question of Trump Jr’s would-be dealings with Russia, the US president acted like an American in Paris who is high on champagne, dazzled by the sights and eager to get to dinner at the Eiffel Tower.
  • (9) As well as enhancing the author's fame and credibility, the meeting helped set Bowie's trajectory for the next few years – a series of dazzling physical and artistic changes that would not slow until the early 1980s.
  • (10) It is in two senses a dazzling work, which leaves the mind's eye scorched into strangeness.
  • (11) For the boy in ragged trousers, who had to struggle right up to the time De Wet removed him from the world of financial responsibility, money was dazzling.
  • (12) Dazzle glare resulting from the accumulation of cystine crystals in ocular tissue may account for glare disability seen in these patients and contribute to their complaints of photophobia.
  • (13) When I was a boy, people thought our technological limit was reached with the dazzling Flying Scotsman's train engine.
  • (14) World Cup fans were dazzled this summer by Howard’s performances in Brazil, which included a record-setting 16 saves in a second-round match the USA nonetheless lost, 2-1 in extra time, to Belgium.
  • (15) It's easy to see Bruckheimer as Hollywood's Simon Cowell , churning out hollow razzle-dazzle for the multiplex masses, most of it based on pre-existing properties.
  • (16) The British Retail Consortium said shops enjoyed a "dazzling" week before Christmas and the best month of sales since January last year, but it believes much of the sales surge was created by bargain hunting.
  • (17) The Bilbao Guggenheim is a treaty port negotiated with the burghers of this rather down-at-heel city, part bullion vault and part glimmering mirage to cow and dazzle the natives.
  • (18) If the argument is that because she is an internationally renowned star, and, therefore, Madonna believes she deserved to be treated differently from other visiting foreigners, it is worth making her aware that Malawi has hosted many international stars, including Chuck Norris, Bono, David James, Rio Ferdinand and Gary Neville who have never demanded state attention or decorum despite their equally dazzling stature.
  • (19) If Hollande's Sunday rally was aimed at injecting some dazzle into what critics have called an unexciting campaign, the manifesto launch marked Hollande's return to the careful, number-crunching technocrat who ran the Socialist party for 11 years.
  • (20) He explained to his educated readers how these elaborate, glass-fronted, gas-lit buildings were “perfectly dazzling when contrasted with the darkness and dirt” of the street, thereby luring in many locals.

Herd


Definition:

  • (a.) Haired.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A crowd of low people; a rabble.
  • (n.) One who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; -- much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like.
  • (v. i.) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills.
  • (v. i.) To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company.
  • (v. i.) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
  • (v. t.) To form or put into a herd.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
  • (2) In a control scheme for enzootic-pneumonia-free herds, 43 herds developed enzootic pneumonia, as judged by non-specific clinical and pathological criteria over 10 years.
  • (3) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
  • (4) One hundred and ninety-six herd mates without RP served as controls.
  • (5) Serum copper concentration also was measured in dams and kids in a control herd that had no history of ataxia.
  • (6) There was considerable scatter of prevalence among both groups of herds.
  • (7) It is concluded that BEC is the major infectious cause of neonatal calf diarrhoea in the Ethiopian dairy herds studied with RV and K99 ETEC also contributing to morbidity, either alone or as mixed infections.
  • (8) In the 46 herds in which only the adult stock were slaughtered, 11 herds suffered breakdowns.
  • (9) Chlamydia psittaci was believed responsible for an episode of high perinatal death loss in a swine herd in which 8.5 pigs per litter normally were weaned.
  • (10) Weather data and breeding records for a Holstein herd of 1300 cows in Hawaii were evaluated to determine effects of climate on reproductive performance.
  • (11) The correlation coefficient between the number of exposures and the number of new cases was 0.85, and the coefficient of determination suggested that 73% of the variation in new cases could be explained by the number of exposures in strain 19-vaccinated herds.
  • (12) A further 26 herds (iiii) which did not employ iodine-containing teat-dips, were also studied.
  • (13) The milk response to use of bST is similar (10 to 15%) to that of three times a day (3x) milking and we expect that the management required to maintain the increased production through successive lactations with bST will be similar to that required for the 3x herd.
  • (14) After a test on all animals older than six months the herd was split into seronegative and seropositive groups.
  • (15) beta hydroxybutyrate (BHB) serum concentrations were measured at regular intervals throughout a lactation in groups of animals from three commercial dairy herds.
  • (16) Three cases of dairy herds affected by production disease (infertility, calf scours and low milk yield) were carried out.
  • (17) There was no significant difference in the occurrence or distribution of lesions on animals in all the three herds over a two month observation period except that a higher proportion of animals in one of the treated herds was affected at the end of the study.
  • (18) The data were analyzed to evaluate the potential role of these two agents as risk factors for the two conditions, using crude and multivariable techniques, as well as individual and herd data.
  • (19) Average daily gain was negatively correlated with mortality (r = -0.662, p = 0.010), suggesting that herds that achieved a high rate of gain also had lower mortality.
  • (20) Two animals from this herd were examined for responses to infection.