English dictionary
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English noun: flock | |||
| 1. | flock (group) a church congregation guided by a pastor | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | congregation, faithful, fold | ||
| 2. | flock (group) a group of birds | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | animal group | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bevy, covert, covey, exaltation, flight, gaggle, wisp | ||
| Member holonym | bird | ||
| 3. | flock (quantity) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | batch, deal, 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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | deluge, flood, haymow, inundation, torrent | ||
| 4. | flock (group) an orderly crowd | ||
| Samples | A troop of children. | ||
| Synonyms | troop | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | crowd | ||
| 5. | flock (group) a group of sheep or goats | ||
| Synonyms | fold | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | animal group | ||
| Member holonym | sheep | ||
English verb: flock | |||
| 1. | flock (motion) move as a crowd or in a group | ||
| Samples | Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears. | ||
| Pattern of use | Something is ----ing PP. Somebody ----s PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | go, locomote, move, travel | ||
| 2. | flock (motion) come together as in a cluster or flock | ||
| Samples | The poets constellate in this town every summer. | ||
| Examples | The crowds flock in the streets | ||
| Synonyms | clump, cluster, constellate | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Something is ----ing PP. Somebody ----s PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | assemble, foregather, forgather, gather, meet | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bunch, bunch together, bunch up, huddle, huddle together | ||
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