Associations to the word «Shepard»

Wiktionary

SHEPARD, noun. Misspelling of shepherd.
SHEPARD, verb. Misspelling of shepherd.
SHEPARD, proper noun. Alternative form of Shepherd
SHEPARD SCALE, noun. (music) A series of Shepard tones constructed to give the illusion of a continuously rising (or falling) series of notes.
SHEPARD TONE, noun. (music) A superposition of sine waves, separated by an octave, whose relative amplitude may be varied to give the illusion of a rising or falling note.

Dictionary definition

SHEPARD, noun. United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943).
SHEPARD, noun. Astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998).

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley