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Definition of 'flock'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) flock
an assemblage of animals, esp. sheep, goats, or birds, that live, travel, or feed together.

2.  flock
a large group of people or things:
flocks of sightseers.

3.  flock
a single congregation in relation to its pastor.

4. (v.i.) flock
to gather or go in a flock:
They flocked around the football hero.

5. (n.) flock
a tuft of wool, hair, cotton, etc.

6.  flock
(sometimes used with a pl. v.) wool refuse, shearings of cloth, or old cloth torn to pieces.

7. (v.t.) flock
to stuff with flock.

8.  flock
to decorate or coat with flock.

Etymology: (1250–1300; ME flok < OF floc < L floccus tuft of wool)

Definition of 'flock'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) flock
a church congregation guided by a pastor

2. (noun) flock
a group of birds

3. (noun) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
(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"

4. (noun) troop, flock
an orderly crowd
"a troop of children"

5. (verb) flock, fold
a group of sheep or goats

6. (verb) flock
move as a crowd or in a group
"Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears"

7. (verb) cluster, constellate, flock, clump
come together as in a cluster or flock
"The poets constellate in this town every summer"

Definition of 'flock'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) flock
a group of birds or sheep
a flock of geese

2. flock
a group of people with a leader
the Reverend and his flock

3. (verb) flock
to move in large numbers
British tourists flocking to the U.S.

Definition of 'flock'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) flock
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

2. (noun) flock
a Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge

3. (noun) flock
a lock of wool or hair

4. (noun) flock
woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture

5. flock
very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose

6. (verb) flock
to gather in companies or crowds

7. (verb) flock
to flock to; to crowd

8. (verb) flock
to coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock

Translation of 'flock'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a number of certain animals or birds together a flock of sheep.
Afrikaans: trop; kudde	Arabic: سِرْب	Bulgarian: стадо
Brazilian: bando	Czech: stádo	German: die Herde, der Schwarm
Danish: flok; sværm	Greek: κοπάδι	Spanish: rebaño, bandada
Estonian: kari, parv	Farsi: گله	Finnish: lauma
French: troupeau	Hebrew: עֶדֶר, לַהֲקָה	Hindi: जानवरों का समूह, आदमियों
Croatian: krdo, stado	Hungarian: nyáj	Indonesian: kawanan
Icelandic: hjörð, flokkur	Italian: gregge; stormo	Japanese: 群れ
Korean: (특히 양, 염소, 새 등의) 떼, 무리	Lithuanian: banda, pulkas	Latvian: (sīklopu) ganāmpulks; (pu
Malay: kawanan	Dutch: kudde, zwerm	Norwegian: flokk, sverm
Polish: stado	Persian: گله	Pashto: ډله، ګله، رمه، پاده، سيل
Portuguese: bando	Romanian: turmă; stol	Russian: стадо; стая
Slovak: črieda, kŕdeľ, stádo	Slovenian: čreda	Serbian: krdo
Swedish: flock	Thai: ฝูงสัตว์	Turkish: sürü
Taiwanese: (飛禽和牲畜等的)群	Ukrainian: отара; зграя	Urdu: جھنڈ، گروہ
Vietnamese: đàn; bầy ; lũ	Chinese: （飞禽和牲畜等的）群
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