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Meaning of 'flock'
Meaning of 'flock' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Flock 
[ n.]
- 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. [ n.]- 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. [ sing. / pl.]3. Flock [ v. i.]
- To gather in companies or crowds. [ v. i.]4. Flock [ v. t.]
- To flock to; to crowd. [ 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.
Meaning of 'flock' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. flock [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- (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
- an orderly crowd
Example in sentence:
- a troop of children
2. flock [ v]
[ v]Meaning (3):
- come together as in a cluster or flock
- 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
- 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
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