FLOCK

flock

(noun) a group of birds

flock, fold

(noun) a group of sheep or goats

flock

(noun) a church congregation guided by a pastor

troop, flock

(noun) an orderly crowd; “a troop of children”

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”

cluster, constellate, flock, clump

(verb) come together as in a cluster or flock; “The poets constellate in this town every summer”

flock

(verb) move as a crowd or in a group; “Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Flock (plural Flocks)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Flock is the 13867^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2179 individuals. Flock is most common among White (93.07%) individuals.

Etymology 1

Noun

flock (plural flocks)

A large number of birds, especially those gathered together for the purpose of migration.

A large number of animals, especially sheep or goats kept together.

Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.

A large number of people.

Synonym: congregation

(Christianity) A religious congregation.

Synonym: congregation

Synonyms

(large number of people)

• bunch, gaggle, horde, host, legion, litter, nest, rabble, swarm, throng, wake

Verb

flock (third-person singular simple present flocks, present participle flocking, simple past and past participle flocked)

(intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.

(transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.

To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.

Etymology 2

Noun

flock (countable and uncountable, plural flocks)

Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.

A lock of wool or hair.

Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating for wallpaper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fibre used for a similar purpose.

Verb

flock (third-person singular simple present flocks, present participle flocking, simple past and past participle flocked)

(transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles.

Source: Wiktionary

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Flock, n. Etym: [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.

Flock, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flocked; p. pr. & vb. n. Flocking.]

Definition: To gather in companies or crowds. Friends daily flock. Dryden. Flocking fowl (Zoöl.), the greater scaup duck.

Flock, v. t.

Definition: To flock to; to crowd. [Obs.] Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so. Taylor (1609).

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

1. A lock of wool or hair. I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point [pommel]. Shak.

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

3. 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. Flock bed, a bed filled with flocks or locks of coarse wool, or pieces of cloth cut up fine. "Once a flock bed, but repaired with straw." Pope.

– Flock paper, paper coated with flock fixed with glue or size.

Flock, v. t.

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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