flock

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /flɒk/    美 /flɑk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
  2. Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding. countable,uncountable
  3. A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.
    — He told his father, and said it would be just suitable work for him to run about fields and woods amongst the strawberry hills after a flock of hares, and now and then lie down and take a nap on some sunny hill.
  4. A lock of wool or hair. countable,uncountable
    — I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point.
  5. Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
    — But lapsed into so long a pause again / As half amazed, half frighted all his flock: [...]
  6. Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating for wallpaper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fibre used for a similar purpose. countable,uncountable
    — There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  7. A large number of people.
    — The heathen […] came to Nicanor by flocks.
  8. A religious congregation.
动词 v.
  1. To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers. intransitive
    — People flocked to the cinema to see the new film.
  2. To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles; especially, to create a dense arrangement of fibers with a desired nap. transitive
    — the sampling and elution advantages of flocked swabs versus spun swabs
  3. To flock to; to crowd. obsolete,transitive
    — Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.
  4. To cover a Christmas tree with artificial snow. transitive
  5. To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles. transitive

词形变化

flocks plural flocks present,singular,third-person flocking participle,present flocked participle,past flocked past flocks plural flocks present,singular,third-person flocking participle,present flocked participle,past flocked past

词汇关系

近义词
bunch gaggle horde host legion litter nest rabble swarm throng wake
衍生词
flerd flock camera flocker flockful flockless flocklike flockling flockmaster flockmate flockmeal flockowner flockwise flocky flower of the flock species flock subflock birds of a feather flock together birds of the feather flock together flock together flock paper flock worker's lung flocked

词源

词源 1
From Middle English flok, from Old English flocc (“flock, company, troop”), from Proto-West Germanic *flokk, from Proto-Germanic *flukkaz (“crowd, troop”). Cognate with German Low German Flock (“crowd, flock”), Danish flok (“flock”), Swedish flock (“flock”), Norwegian flokk (“flock”), Faroese flokkur (“flock”), Icelandic flokkur (“flock, group”). Related also to Norman fliotchet (“flock, crowd”), from Old Norse. Perhaps related to Old English folc (“crowd, troop, band”). More at folk.
词源 2
From Middle English flok (“tuft of wool”), from Old French floc (“tuft of wool”), from Late Latin floccus (“tuft of wool”), probably from Frankish *flokko (“down, wool, flock”), from Proto-Germanic *flukkōn-, *flukkan-, *fluksōn- (“down, flock”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“hair, fibres, tuft”). Cognate with Old High German flocko (“down”), Middle Dutch vlocke (“flock”), Norwegian dialectal flugsa (“snowflake”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian flok (“hair”).
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