Flock

Definition: Flock

Flock

Noun

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".

4. An orderly crowd; "a troop of children".

5. A group of sheep or goats.

Verb

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "flock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Chemical Industry

Chemistry

Engineering & Technology

Industry

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Flock

Assemblage

Verb: assemble, collect, muster; meet, unite, join, rejoin; cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate; congregate, conglomerate, concentrate; precipitate; center round, rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig together; forgather; huddle; reassemble.

Crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host;crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host; (multitude); populousness.

Inexpedience

Super-excellence, supereminence; superiority; perfection; coup de maitre; masterpiece, chef d'ouvre, prime, flower, cream, elite, pick, A, nonesuch, nonpareil, creme de la creme, flower of the flock, salt of the earth; champion; prodigy.

Laity

Noun: laity, flock, fold, congregation, assembly, brethren, people; society.

Multitude

Noun: mul numerous; Adjective: numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion; (plenty); legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd; (assemblage); lots; all in the world and his wife.

Crosswords: Flock

Swedish (are, bevy, cluster, collection, Covey, crowd, flight, flock, floss, group, heap, herd, horde, pack, party, set, umbel).

Some place warm, a place where the beer flows like wine, where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano (Dumb and Dumber; writing credit: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, and Bennett Yellin.)

I worked at a smorgasbord, and the old people would flock there, and they loved to eat, and they'd just jam their mouths, you know (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

Condors! If I'd created a flock of condors you wouldn't have anything to say about it (Jurassic Park; writing credit: Michael Crichton)

The 70s and the 80s? I've looked into it. There's a gas shortage and A Flock of Seagulls (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; writing credit: Mike Myers)

I'm talkin' about a place where the beer flows like wine, where the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin)

The whole set on lock down, making you flock down, (Freakin It; performing artist: Will Smith)

Shepherd's Flock (1971)

A Flock of Skeletons (1916)

Not of the Flock (1914)

The Leader of His Flock (1913)

Flock of Sheep (1901)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Textile Wadding Materials, Fibers of Less Than 5 mm in Length, Flock, Dust, and Mill Neps: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Growing Upcountry: Raising a Family & Flock in a Rural Place (reference)

• Living With Chickens: Everything You Need to Know to Raise Your Own Backyard Flock (reference)

• Outside the Flock (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Flock Book (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• A Flock of Seagulls (reference)

• The Best Of A Flock Of Seagulls (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A flock of Buffleheads cruising the Patuxent River. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A small flock of domestic ducks near the area of the April 7th Swanson Creek oil spill. Fortunately, these birds were not affected at this time. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A flock of albatross flying in the vicinity of a Greenpeace vessel. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Birds of a feather don't always flock together - pelican and sea gull share adjacent pilings. Credit: Fisheries.

GoGo Jones herds flock at South Central Research Centre, Boonsville, Arkansas. Credit: USDA.

Flock of white domestic turkeys. Credit: USDA.

Flock of sheep by fense. Credit: USDA.

Flock of turkeys. Credit: USDA.

Turkey flock. Credit: USDA.

Research flock at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station near Dubois, Idaho. Credit: USDA ARS News.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He had a very fine flock, and, while she was with them, he had been bid more for his wool than any body in the country

He turned angrily and threatened them with his stick, and they scattered like a flock of birds

A priest would not be a priest if he did not tell his flock what is right and what is wrong

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Some data suggest that Campylobacter can spread through a chicken flock in their drinking water. (references)

Business

While the creation of a new institution represents a step towards clearly defining the copyright laws concerning software, foreign companies did not flock to register their software. (references)

Economic History

Portugal

Accordingly, passenger travel services need to be developed in both directions as the Portuguese increasingly flock to vacation spots in the United States and as Portugal becomes a growing international vacation destination. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

The flock of God

A flock

Expressions using "flock": birds of a feather flock together ♦ flock around ♦ Flock bed ♦ flock coated paper ♦ flock duck ♦ flock master ♦ flock of birds ♦ flock of sheep ♦ Flock paper ♦ flock preform ♦ flock together ♦ flock wallpaper ♦ Little Flock ♦ textile flock. Additional references.

Beginning with "flock": flock-owners, flock-piled, flock-walled.

Ending with "flock": mini-flock, red-flock.

Afrikaans

trop (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, herd, pack, set), kudde (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, herd, pack, set). (various references)

Albanian

flok (hair, jib), turmë (bevy, concourse, confluence, crew, crowd, drove, herd, horde, huddle, jam, mob, press, rabble, rat race, rout, ruck, throng), tufë (batch, beam, book, bunch, cloud, clutch, Covey, crop, drove, flight, funiculus, group, herd, mass, muster, parcel, plume, ream, roll, run, scads, slip, stack, swarm, troop, truss, tuft, tussock, wad), mbush me lesh, mblidhet, mbeturina leshi, grumbullohet, grigjë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كتلة صوف, ‏مجموعة كبيرة (crowd, raft), ‏نفاية صوف, ‏قطيع (drove, group, herd, troop), ‏حشا بنفاية, ‏تجمع (aggregation, assemblage, assemble, collect, concentrate, concourse, congregation, converge, convergence, gather, gathering, get together, group, grouping, huddle, league, mass, muster, organization, pile up, pool, press, rally, reassemble), ‏سرب (bevy, drift, group, herd, infiltrate, leak, swarm), ‏إندفع أفواجا, ‏إحتشد (be gathered, congregate, crowd, huddle, jostle, muster, swarm, teem, throng, troop). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ято (bevy, Covey, flight, gaggle, pack, skein, wing), стадо (bunch, herd, horde, mob, pack, pride, troop), фъндък (floccule, fluff, lock), тълпя се (collect, crowd, crowd together, herd, horde together, mob, swarm, throng, troop, whirl), тъпча с дреб, трупам се (conglomerate, crowd round, flood, mass, mob, throng, troop), орляк (bevy, flight, wing), образувам ято, малко валмо от вълна, милирам, придавам грапав вид на, паство (congregation, sheep). (various references)

Chinese 

群 (crowd, group). (various references)

Czech

stádo (drove, herd, pack), hejno (bevy, Covey, drove, flight, gaggle, school, shoal, swarm). (various references)

Danish

flok (band, drove, herd, integral herd, textile flock), flockfibre, flock, besaetning (drove, herd, trimming). (various references)

Dutch

kudde (are, bevy, cluster, collection, good great group, group, heap, herd, livestock, pack, set), roedel (herd). (various references)

Esperanto

grego (herd). (various references)

Faeroese

fylgi (herd), gonga (herd). (various references)

Farsi 

گله (Covey, Discontent, Drove, Gripe, Groan, Grumble, Herd, Quarrel), گروه (A, Administration, Army, Assembly, Bunch, Class, Clinch, Clique, Cluster, Cohort, Company, Concourse, Corps, Covey, Crowd, Ensign, Gang, Group, Kind, Outfit, Pack, Rout, School, Seaboard, Shoal, Skulk, Team, Throng), گردامدن (Agglomerate, Assemble, Constringe, Convene, Gather, Herd, Rally, Ring), جمعیت (Army, Bike, Company, Crowd, Gang, Group, Habitancy, Heap, Herd, Mob, Party, People, Population, Press, Society, Throng), جمع شدن (Aggregate, Assemble, Backlog, Beehive, Congregate, Constringe, Drift, Gather, Group, Herd, Muster, Retract, Shrink, Snuggle, Twitch), ازدحام کردن (Crowd, Huddle, Mob, Overcrowd, Press, Scrouge, Swarm, Throng), رمه (Drove, Herd), دسته پرندگان , بصورت گله ورمه درامدن . (various references)

Finnish

parvi (attic, crowd, garret, school, shoal, swarm), lauma (drove, herd, horde, host, pack, swarm). (various references)

French

troupeau, bourre (flat strip waste). (various references)

German

herde (drove, gaggle, herd, livestock, stoves). (various references)

Greek 

κοπάδι (herd, shoal), συρρέω (flock into, flow together, pour into, throng), αγέλη (drove, herd, pack). (various references)

Hebrew 

מרעית (grazing ground, pasturing), להצמד (be attached, be joined), לנהור (crowd, flow, rush, stream, swarm), עדה (assembly, community, congregation, swarm), עדר (drove, herd), צאן (goat, sheep, small cattle). (various references)

Hungarian

nyáj (bunch, drove, fold, herd), falka (bevy, drove, kennel, pack, troop). (various references)

Indonesian

sekawanan (herd), sekawan (herd, school (of fish)), kawanan (bevy, covey, swarm). (various references)

Italian

mandria (drove, herd), gregge (drove, fold, herd), fiocco (bow, flake, floccule, jib, knot, tassel, tuft), branco (drove, gang, herd, pack, parcel), batuffolo (wad). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

群れ (bevy, clump, cluster, crowd, group, herd, school, swarm). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

むれ (bevy, clump, cluster, crowd, group, herd, school, swarm). (various references)

Korean 

무리 (Brood). (various references)

Manx

shioltaney, shioltane (gathering, gathering of sheep), possan (band, band of people, bevy, bunch, clique, colony, covey, detachment, ensemble, formation of troops, gaggle, group, grouping, levy, party, posse, pride of lions, squad, swarm), flockys (wadding). (various references)

Maya

dzanab. (various references)

Norwegian

flokkes, flokk (herd), ulldott. (various references)

Pig Latin

ockflay.(various references)

Portuguese

rebanho (bunch, cattle, drove, herd, livestock, troop). (various references)

Romanian

floc (floccus), fulg (down), merge în numãr mare, cârd (band, bevy, drove, gang, group, herd, pack, shoal, troop), ceatã (band, cohort, drove, gang, group, knot, order, pack, ring, rout, tribe, troop), ciopor (troop), credincioşi, enoriaşi (parish, sheep), ghemotoc (mop, peewee), îndesa (clap, cluster, cram, jam, ram, stamp, stuff), grãmadã (aheap, assemblage, batch, block, bulk, clamp, clump, cluster, cob, collection, congeries, crowd, drift, heap, host, hulk, load, lump, mass, mountain, multitude, ocean, pack, Peck, pile, power, shoal, snag, stack, throng, ton, wilderness of), veni în grup, mulţime (accumulation, army, array, body, boodle, cloud, cluster, concourse, crowd, dozen, drove, fifty, forest, generality, heap, herd, hive, host, huddle, lashing, manifold, mass, mob, multitude, muster, number, Peck, pile, plenty, populace, press, quantity, rabble, ream, shoal, sight, squash, stack, swarm, throng), se îngrãmãdi (bank up, congest, crowd, overcrowd, pile on, pile up, shoal), se întruni laolaltã, se aduna (collect, concentrate, congregate, forgather, gather, join, mass, meet, mob, rally, troop together), se strânge (bank up, close, collect, convolve, cuddle, curl up, draw, furl, herd, jam, join, mass, mob, nuzzle, pack, pile up, snuggle, squash, squeeze, straiten), smoc (Bob, bunch, bundle, floccus, lock, tuft, wisp), stol (bevy, Covey, pack, swarm, troop), turmã (charge, drove, herd, sheep, troop), turmã de animale domestice, gloatã (band, boodle, crowd, drove, heap, herd, mob, multitude, populace, press, rabble, riff raff, squash, the many, troop). (various references)

Russian 

стадо (bevy, herd). (various references)

Scottish

treud (herd). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stado (drove, herd), skupiti se (agglomerate, convene, huddle, shrink), sjatiti se, jato (bevy, cluster, herd, mob, swarm), gomila (accumulation, agglomerate, aggregate, batch, concourse, congeries, crowd, heap, huddle, mob, pile, pileup, plump, stack, swarm, throng). (various references)

Spanish

manada (bevy, drove, gaggle, herd, pack, pod), bandada (bevy, flight, skein). (various references)

Swedish

flock (are, bevy, cluster, collection, Covey, crowd, flight, floss, group, heap, herd, horde, pack, party, set, umbel), tapp (dowel, faucet, peg, pintle, plug, spigot, tap, tenon, wisp), skocka sig (cluster, huddle), hjord (are, bevy, cluster, collection, fold, group, heap, herd, pack, set). (various references)

Thai

ฝูงชน (shoal), ฝูงสัตว์ (herd), ูแห่กันไปป. (various references)

Turkish

yün yumağı (a ball of wool), yün tozu (flocks), yün kırpıntısı, yığın (accumulation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregation, bank, batch, budget, bulk, bundle, cartload, chunk, clamp, clump, collection, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, crowd, drove, force, heap, Hill, huddle, lump, mass, mound, pack, Peck, pile, raft, slew, stack, swarm, tons, volume, wilderness), toplanmak (accumulate, agglomerate, assemble, band together, build, bunch, club, club together, cluster, collect, combine, congregate, convene, crowd, drift, forgather, gather, get together, group, herd, horde, keep together, meet, meet in council, mob, muster, rally, reunite, roll up, shoal, sit, sit on, swarm, swarm to a place, throng, troop, troop together, troop up, turn out), sürü halinde hareket etmek, sürü (cartload, cloud, Covey, crew, crowd, drove, fold, gang, herd, horde, pack, regiment, run, shoal, swarm), kalabalık (army, assemblage, cohort, concourse, congested, congestion, cram, crop, crowd, crowded, crush, drove, gaggle, gathering, hive, horde, host, huddle, legion, mob, multitude, multitudinous, populous, press, regiment, rush hour, shoal, spate, squash, throng, thronged, wilderness), cemaat (boodle, caboodle, communion, community, congregation, crowd, fold, parish, sect, troop), akın etmek (flood, invade, raid), üşüşmek (crowd, pour, press on, swarm, swarm to a place, throng). (various references)

Turkmen 

sьri (herd). (various references)

Ukrainian

сходитися (congregate, converge, identify), скупчуватися (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, collect, congest, conglomerate, crowd, huddle, throng), триматися разом, табун (band, gaggle, shoal), натовп (bike, confluence, conflux, crowd, drove, huddle, mob, multitude, press, rabble, throng), зграя (brood, drove, gaggle, nest, pack). (various references)

Vietnamese 

giáo dân đám con chiên nào cũng có con chiên ghẻ, chất lẳng xốp, cụm (bunch, cluster, colony, knot), bầy các con chiên, đám đông đàn. (various references)

Welsh

praidd, heidio (swarm, throng), gre (stud), dyludo (throng), diadellu, diadell, bagad (bunch, cluster, host, multitude). (various references)

agmen, agmina, agmine, agminibus, agminis, agminum, caterva, catervam, exercitibus, exercitu, exercitui, exercitum, exercitus, exercituum, grex, pecora, pecore, pecoribus, pecoris, pecorum, pecus, vulgi, vulgo, vulgum, vulgus. (various references)

vãthwa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "flock": flocked, flockier, flockiest, flocking, flockings, flocks, flocky. (additional references)

Words ending with "flock": elflock. (additional references)

Words containing "flock": elflocks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Flock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: feock, Filtock, flacky, flecky, flocc, floch, flok, flonk, floocy, flox, fluck, flunck, fock, folc, folke, Follosco, Fonck, fosk, Fulco, Glock, llock. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: floc, folk, lock.

-2 letters: col.

-3 letters: lo, of.

+1 letter: flocks, flocky.

+2 letters: elflock, fetlock, flocked.

+3 letters: backflow, chockful, cockloft, elflocks, fetlocks, firelock, flockier, flocking, forelock, frolicky, rockfall.

+4 letters: backflows, cocklofts, firelocks, flintlock, flockiest, flockings, folkloric, forelocks, frolicked, pocketful, rockfalls.

+5 letters: cornflakes, flintlocks, footlocker, forelocked, frolicking, pocketfuls, pocketsful.