Definitions for flock
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Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. flock(noun)

   a church congregation guided by a pastor

2. flock(noun)

   a group of birds

3. 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(noun)

   (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. troop, flock(noun)

   an orderly crowd

   "a troop of children"

5. flock, fold(verb)

   a group of sheep or goats

6. flock(verb)

   move as a crowd or in a group

   "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears"

7. cluster, constellate, flock, clump(verb)

   come together as in a cluster or flock

   "The poets constellate in this town every summer"

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Flock(noun)

   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

   Etymology: [OE. flokke; cf. D. vlok, G. flocke, OHG. floccho, Icel. flki, perh. akin to E. flicker, flacker, or cf. L. floccus, F. floc.]

2. Flock(noun)

   a Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge

   Etymology: [OE. flokke; cf. D. vlok, G. flocke, OHG. floccho, Icel. flki, perh. akin to E. flicker, flacker, or cf. L. floccus, F. floc.]

3. Flock(verb)

   to gather in companies or crowds

   Etymology: [OE. flokke; cf. D. vlok, G. flocke, OHG. floccho, Icel. flki, perh. akin to E. flicker, flacker, or cf. L. floccus, F. floc.]

4. Flock(verb)

   to flock to; to crowd

   Etymology: [OE. flokke; cf. D. vlok, G. flocke, OHG. floccho, Icel. flki, perh. akin to E. flicker, flacker, or cf. L. floccus, F. floc.]

5. Flock(noun)

   a lock of wool or hair

   Etymology: [OE. flokke; cf. D. vlok, G. flocke, OHG. floccho, Icel. flki, perh. akin to E. flicker, flacker, or cf. L. floccus, F. floc.]

6. Flock(noun)

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

   Etymology: [OE. flokke; cf. D. vlok, G. flocke, OHG. floccho, Icel. flki, perh. akin to E. flicker, flacker, or cf. L. floccus, F. floc.]

7. 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

   Etymology: [OE. flokke; cf. D. vlok, G. flocke, OHG. floccho, Icel. flki, perh. akin to E. flicker, flacker, or cf. L. floccus, F. floc.]

8. Flock(verb)

   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

   Etymology: [OE. flokke; cf. D. vlok, G. flocke, OHG. floccho, Icel. flki, perh. akin to E. flicker, flacker, or cf. L. floccus, F. floc.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Flock

   Flock was a web browser that specialized in providing social networking and Web 2.0 facilities built into its user interface. Earlier versions of Flock used the Gecko HTML rendering engine by Mozilla. Version 2.6.2, released in July 2010, was the last version based on Mozilla Firefox. Starting with version 3, Flock was based on Chromium and so used the WebKit rendering engine. Flock was available as a free download, and supported Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X platforms. Support for Flock was discontinued in April 2011. A year later in April 2012 the old Flock website was back and carried a vague indication that the project might be resurrected, inviting readers to add themselves to a mailing list to receive future news. As of April 2013 the site redirected to another business, indicating that the resurrection of the web browser did not occur.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Flock

   flok, n. a company of animals, as sheep, birds, &c.: a company generally: a Christian congregation.—v.i. to gather in flocks or in crowds.—n. Flock′-mas′ter, an owner or overseer of a flock. [A.S. flocc, a flock, a company; Ice. flokkr.]

2. Flock

   flok, n. a lock of wool.—n. Floccillā′tion, a delirious picking of the bed-clothes by a patient.—adjs. Floc′cose, woolly; Floc′cūlar; Floc′cūlate.—n. Floc′cūlence.—adj. Floc′cūlent, woolly, flaky.—ns. Floc′cūlus, a small flock or tuft: a small lobe of the inferior surface of the cerebellum; Floc′cus, a flock or tuft of wool or wool-like hairs: the downy plumage of unfledged birds:—pl. Flocci (flok′si); Flock′-bed, a bed stuffed with flock or refuse wool; Flock′-pā′per, wall-paper covered with a rough surface formed of flock.—adj. Flock′y. [O. Fr. floc—L. floccus, a lock of wool.]

CrunchBase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Flock

   Flock is a free web browser built on the Mozilla Firefox architecture. Flock aggregates social networks, social media, webmail and related tools within the browser interface. With these tools you can keep your friends and media with you while you browse, and interaction with and between them is as simple as drag and drop. Flock has 23 services integrated, including Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and Digg. Along with these service integrations, Flock’s built-in blog editor and photo uploader deliver a whole browsing experience that is unparalleled by conventional browsers.

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'flock' in Nouns Frequency: #2926

How to pronounce flock?

1. Alex

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   Daniel

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   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of flock in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of flock in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of flock in a Sentence

1. Alexis de Tocqueville:

   It [government] covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting: such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.

2. Emilia Salach:

   Every misfit in a flock is more exposed to rejection and harm ... We can see already it hasn't been accepted yet by most of our little penguin family.

3. Alex Stein:

   Our November sale series has been a glorious celebration of Latin American art, we have seen the international collecting community flock to own works by the giants of our category such as( Rufino) Tamayo,( Remedios) Varo,( Leonora) Carrington, and Botero, as well as emerging artists.

4. Anuj Somany:

   Donkeys walk in a flock on their front two legs by wearing knotted straps as an identification marks around own necks or on some body parts and some brays as if says or raises slogan of their master's name.

5. Albert Einstein:

   In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.

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