- 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. - A Christian church or congregation; considered in their
relation to the pastor, or minister in charge. - A lock of wool or hair. - Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc.,
reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing
unpholstered furniture.
2 . Flock
[ sing. / pl.]
- 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.
3 . Flock
[ v. i.]
- To gather in companies or crowds.
4 . Flock
[ v. t.]
- To flock to; to crowd. - 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.
Meaning of 'flock' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . flock
[ n]
Meaning (1): - (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
Example in sentence:
a batch of letters;
a deal of trouble;
a lot of money;
a slew of journalists;
a wad of money;
he made a mint on the stock market;
it must have cost plenty;
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
Meaning (2): - an orderly crowd
Example in sentence:
a troop of children
3 . flock
[ v]
Meaning (3): - come together as in a cluster or flock
Example in sentence:
The poets constellate in this town every summer
Meaning (4): - move as a crowd or in a group
Example in sentence:
Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears