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# bleat

verb (bleat, bleats, bleated, bleating); noun (a bleat, bleats)

«bleat» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The shaky «baa» sound a sheep, lamb or goat makes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleat/#m1)
2. To make that sound. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleat/#m2)
3. (informal) To complain in a weak, whining way, as in «stop bleating about it». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleat/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science and farm lessons it is the name of the sheep's and goat's call (like a dog barks and a cow moos). In stories it tells the reader there are sheep nearby or that a character is moaning in a feeble way. Phrases: «bleat on about».

### Examples

- The lambs bleated for their mothers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleat/#x1)
- We heard the bleat of a goat in the field. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleat/#x2)
- A sheep bleats, a dog barks and a cow moos. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleat/#x3)
- The little lamb gave a sad bleat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleat/#x4)
- Stop bleating about your homework and just do it! (informal) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleat/#x5)
- The goats bleated when the farmer brought hay. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleat/#x6)
- He bleated that it was not fair. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleat/#x7)

### Note

Regular verb: bleated, bleating. Countable noun: a bleat. Rhymes with «sheet». Animal sounds: sheep and goats bleat, horses neigh, pigs oink or grunt, ducks quack.

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Samuel hears the sheep that Saul kept, which proves Saul disobeyed God's command. Tradition notes that the animals themselves reveal the truth. In the primary lessons: In science and farm lessons it is the name of the sheep's and goat's call (like a dog barks and a cow moos). In stories it tells the reader there are sheep nearby or that a character is moaning in a feeble way. Phrases: «bleat on about».

### Examples

- And Samuel said: 'What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?' (Prophets 1SA.15.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bleat/#x1)

### Note

Regular verb: bleated, bleating. Countable noun: a bleat. Rhymes with «sheet». Animal sounds: sheep and goats bleat, horses neigh, pigs oink or grunt, ducks quack.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bleat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleat/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «bleat» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bleat/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bleat» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/bleat.html) on Mova free.