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| 1. | a number of animals of one kind, esp. sheep, goats, or birds, that keep or feed together or are herded together. |
| 2. | a large number of people; crowd. |
| 3. | a large group of things: a flock of letters to answer. |
| 4. | (in New Testament and ecclesiastical use)
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| 5. | Archaic. a band or company of persons. |
| 6. | to gather or go in a flock or crowd: They flocked around the football hero. |
[Origin: bef. 1000; (n.) ME; OE floc; c. ON flokkr; (v.) ME, deriv. of the n.
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flockless, adjective
—Synonyms 1, 2. bevy, covey, flight, gaggle; brood, hatch, litter; shoal, school, swarm, group, company. Flock, drove, herd, pack refer to a company of animals, often under the care or guidance of someone. Flock is the popular term, which applies to groups of animals, esp. of sheep or goats, and companies of birds: This lamb is the choicest of the flock. A flock of wild geese flew overhead. Drove is esp. applied to a number of oxen, sheep, or swine when driven in a group: A drove of oxen was taken to market. A large drove of swine filled the roadway. Herd is usually applied to large animals such as cattle, originally meaning those under the charge of someone; but by extension, to other animals feeding or driven together: a buffalo herd; a herd of elephants. Pack applies to a number of animals kept together or keeping together for offense or defense: a pack of hounds kept for hunting; a pack of wolves. As applied to people, drove, herd, and pack carry a contemptuous implication.
—Usage note See collective noun.
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| 1. | a lock or tuft of wool, hair, cotton, etc. |
| 2. | (sometimes used with a plural verb ) wool refuse, shearings of cloth, old cloth torn to pieces, or the like, for upholstering furniture, stuffing mattresses, etc. |
| 3. | Also called flocking. (sometimes used with a plural verb ) finely powdered wool, cloth, etc., used for producing a velvetlike pattern on wallpaper or cloth or for coating metal. |
| 4. | floc (def. 1). |
| 5. | to stuff with flock, as a mattress. |
| 6. | to decorate or coat with flock, as wallpaper, cloth, or metal. |
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n. A small, loosely held mass or aggregate of fine particles, resembling a tuft of wool and suspended in or precipitated from a solution. Also called flock2. [New Latin flocculus, flocculus; see flocculus.] |
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| flock 1
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intr.v. flocked, flock·ing, flocks To congregate or travel in a flock or crowd. [Middle English flok, from Old English floc.] Synonyms: These nouns denote a number of animals, birds, or fish considered collectively, and some have human connotations. Flock is applied to a congregation of animals of one kind, especially sheep or goats herded by people, and to any congregation of wild or domesticated birds, especially when on the ground. It is also applicable to people who form the membership of a church or to people under someone's care or supervision. Herd is used of a number of animals, especially cattle, herded by people; or of wild animals such as antelope, elephants, and zebras; or of whales and seals. Applied to people, it is used disparagingly of a crowd or of the masses and suggests the gregarious aspect of crowd psychology. Drove is used of a herd or flock, as of cattle or geese, that is being moved or driven from one place to another; less often it refers to a crowd of people in movement. Pack is applicable to any body of animals, especially wolves, or of birds, especially grouse, and to a body of hounds trained to hunt as a unit. It also refers disparagingly to a band or group of persons. Gang refers to a herd, especially of buffalo or elk; to a pack of wolves or wild dogs; or to various associations of persons, especially when engaged in violent or criminal pursuits. Brood is applicable to offspring that are still under the care of a mother, especially the offspring of domestic or game birds or, less formally, of people. · The following related terms are used as indicated: bevy, a company of roe deer, larks, or quail; cast, the number of hawks or falcons cast off at one time, usually a pair; cete, a company of badgers; covert, a flock of coots; covey, a family of grouse, partridges, or other game birds; drift, a drove or herd, especially of hogs; exaltation, a flight of larks; fall, a family of woodcock in flight; flight, a flock of birds in flight; gaggle, a flock of geese; gam, a school of whales, or a social congregation of whalers, especially at sea; kennel, a number of hounds or dogs housed in one place or under the same ownership; kindle, a brood or litter, especially of kittens; litter, the total number of offspring produced at a single birth by a multiparous mammal; murder, a flock of crows; muster, a flock of peacocks; nide, a brood of pheasants; pod, a small herd of seals or whales; pride, a company of lions; rout, a company of people or animals in movement, especially knights or wolves; school, a congregation of fish, or aquatic mammals such as dolphins or porpoises; shrewdness, a company of apes; skein, a flight of wildfowl, especially geese; skulk, a congregation of vermin, especially foxes, or of thieves; sloth, a company of bears; sord, a flight of mallards; sounder, a herd of wild boar; stable, a number of horses housed in one place or under the same ownership; swarm, a colony of insects, such as ants, bees, or wasps, especially when migrating to a new nest or hive; troop, a number of animals, birds, or people, especially when on the move; warren, the inhabitants, such as rabbits, of a warren; watch, a flock of nightingales; and wisp, a flock of birds, especially of snipe. See Also Synonyms at crowd1. |
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| flock 2
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tr.v. flocked, flock·ing, flocks
[Middle English flok, from Old French floc, from Latin floccus, tuft of wool.] |
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flock (n.)
O.E. flocc "a group of persons," related to O.N. flokkr "crowd, troop, band," M.L.G. vlocke "crowd, flock;" not found in other Gmc. languages, perhaps related to folc "people," but the metathesis would have been unusual for O.E. Extended c.1200 to "a number of animals of one kind moving or feeding together;" of domestic animals c.1300. Transferred to bodies of Christians, in relation to Christ or their local pastor, from c.1340. The verb meaning "to gather, congregate" is from c.1300.
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| flock | |
noun | |
| 1. | a church congregation guided by a pastor |
| 2. | a group of birds |
| 3. | (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch] |
| 4. | an orderly crowd; "a troop of children" [syn: troop] |
| 5. | a group of sheep or goats |
verb | |
| 1. | move as a crowd or in a group; "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears" |
| 2. | come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" [syn: cluster] |
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flock [flok] noun
a number of certain animals or birds together
Example: a flock of sheep
flock [flok] verbExample: a flock of sheep
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(with to, ~into etc) to gather or go somewhere together in a group or crowd
Example: People flocked to the cinema.
Example: People flocked to the cinema.
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Little Flock, AR (city, FIPS 40120) Location: 36.38784 N, 94.13649 W
Population (1990): 944 (362 housing units)
Area: 18.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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Flock
Floc`cil*la"tion\, n. [L. floccus a flock of wool. Cf. Flock of wool.] (Med.) A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases. --Dunglison.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Flock
Floc*cose"\, a. [L. floccosus. Cf. 2d Flock, n.]1. Spotted with small tufts like wool. --Wright. 2. (Bot.) Having tufts of soft hairs, which are often deciduous.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Flock
Floc"cu*lent\, a. [See Flock of wool.]1. Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly. --Gray. 2. (Zo["o]l.) Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Flock
Flock\, n. [AS. flocc flock, company; akin to Icel. flokkr crowd, Sw. flock, Dan. flok; prob. orig. used of flows, and akin to E. fly. See Fly.]1. A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl. --Milton. The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. --2 Macc. xiv. 14. 2. A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge. As half amazed, half frighted all his flock. --Tennyson.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Flock
Flock\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flocked; p. pr. & vb. n. Flocking.] To gather in companies or crowds. Friends daily flock. --Dryden. Flocking fowl (Zo["o]l.), the greater scaup duck.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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