Found 3 items, similar to flock.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: flock
kawanan, sekawan, sekawanan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: flock
flock
n 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”;
“it must
have cost plenty” [syn:
batch,
deal,
good deal,
great deal
,
hatful,
heap,
lot,
mass,
mess,
mickle,
mint,
muckle,
peck,
pile,
plenty,
pot,
quite a little
,
raft,
sight,
slew,
spate,
stack,
tidy sum
,
wad,
whole lot,
whole slew]
4: an orderly crowd;
“a troop of children” [syn:
troop]
5: a group of sheep or goats
v 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,
constellate,
clump]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Flock
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.
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The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. --2
Macc. xiv. 14.
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2. A Christian church or congregation; considered in their
relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
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As half amazed, half frighted all his flock.
--Tennyson.
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Flock
\Flock\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Flocked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Flocking.]
To gather in companies or crowds.
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Friends daily flock. --Dryden.
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Flocking fowl (Zo["o]l.), the greater scaup duck.
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Flock
\Flock\, v. t.
To flock to; to crowd. [Obs.]
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Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so. --Taylor
(1609).
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Flock
\Flock\, n. [OE. flokke; cf. D. vlok, G. flocke, OHG.
floccho, Icel. fl[=o]ki, perh. akin to E. flicker, flacker,
or cf. L. floccus, F. floc.]
1. A lock of wool or hair.
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I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks
in the point [pommel]. --Shak.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Flock
\Flock\, v. t.
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.
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