Population vs Herd - What's the difference?
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The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
By extension, the people with a given characteristic.
A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
(biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
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, title= (statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
* 1883 , (Francis Galton) et al., Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee , Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science,
(computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
* 1768, ,
Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
* 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma , National Geographic (March 2007), 47,
A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble.
* Dryden
* Coleridge
To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company.
Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.
* 2000 , Alasdair Grey, The Book of Prefaces , Bloomsbury 2002, p. 38:
(Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
To form or put into a herd.
As nouns the difference between population and herd
is that population is population while herd is stove, cooker.population
English
Noun
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- it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained.
herd
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) herde, heerde, heorde, from (etyl) hierd, .Noun
(en noun)- The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea.
- Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd .
- But far more numerous was the herd of such / Who think too little and who talk too much.
- You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question.
Verb
(en verb)- Sheep herd on many hills.
- (rfdate) I’ll herd among his friends, and seem One of the number. Addison.
Etymology 2
(etyl) hirde, (hierde), from (etyl) . Cognate with German Hirte, Swedish herde, Danish hyrde.Noun
(en noun)- Any talent which gives a good new thing to others is a miracle, but commentators have thought it extra miraculous that England's first known poet was an illiterate herd .
Derived terms
* bearherd * cowherd * goatherd * gooseherd * hogherd * horseherd * neatherd * oxherd * swanherd * swineherd * vaxherdVerb
(en verb)- I heard the herd of cattle being herded home from a long way away.