| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Flock.[Websters]
2. To have packed, clustered, shoaled, piled or parcelled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be batched. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have heaped, mobbed, huddled, hosted or clumped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To be flighted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be slivered or flaked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have swarmed or trooped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have bunched or crowded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To be sided, cushioned, ribbed or winged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be frilled.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb flock.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (flock) | 1. Move as a crowd or in a group; "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears".[Wordnet]. 2. Come together as in a cluster or flock.[Wordnet]. 3. To gather in companies or crowds.[Websters]. 4. To flock to; to crowd.[Websters]. 5. 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.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: flocking, flocked, flocks, flocker, flockers, flockingly and flockedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being flighted.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being frilled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being cushioned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being webbed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being striped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being ribbed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being paired. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being belted.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FLOCKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Specialty Definition: flock
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A company or collection; applied to sheep and other small animals. A flock of sheep answers to a herd of larger cattle. But the word may sometimes perhaps be applied to larger beasts, and in the plural, flocks may include all kinds of domesticated animals.. | 2: [Noun] A company or collection of fowls of any kind, and when applied to birds on the wing, a flight; as a flock of wild-geese; a flock of ducks; a flock of blackbirds. in the United States, flocks of wild-pigeons sometimes darken the air.. | 3: [Noun] A body or crowd of people. [little used. Gr. a troop.]. | 4: [Noun] A lock of wool or hair. Hence, a flockbed.. | 5: [Verb] To gather in companies or crowds; applied to men or other animals. People flock together. They flock to the play-house. Friends daily flock.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Engineering & Technology | Finely cut wool, rayon or silk fibers are blown or are shaken on an adhesive-coated paper while the adhesive is still wet. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Geography | Flock is geographically located in Sweden. Its features include a reef(s) (a surface-navigation hazard composed of consolidated material). Its geographic coordinates are 65.75 degrees North latitude and 22.866667 degrees East longitude. (references) | ||
| Industry | 1: A material obtained by reducing textile fibers to fragments as by cutting, tearing, or grinding. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Flock printing produces raised designs resembling cut pile. The --, usually rayon fibers, adheres to the goods which have been printed with an adhesive. Source: European Union. (references) | 3: Small soft fiber mass; cotton-wool. Source: European Union. (references) | 4: Very short fiber destined to be stuck to a backing. Source: European Union. (references) | 5: Woolen or cotton waste, old rags, etc. , reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A large number of birds, especially gathered together for the purpose of migration. (references) | 2: [Noun] A large number of people. (references) | 3: [Noun] A large number of sheep kept together. (references) | 4: [Noun] Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding. (references) | 5: [Verb] (transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles. (references) | 6: [Verb] (transitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers. (references) |
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Common Expressions: flock
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| A Flock of Seagulls (album) | A Flock of Seagulls is the eponymous debut album by the Liverpudlian New Wave/New Romantic band of the same name. (references) | ||
| Flock (web browser) | Flock is a web browser based on Mozilla Firefox. Flock's creators call it a social browser, meaning it is able to interact with popular social web services. Such web services include Flickr (photo sharing), Delicious (bookmark sharing), Technorati, blogs, and news aggregation. (references) | ||
| Flock bed | A bed filled with flocks or locks of coarse wool, or pieces of cloth cut up fine. ``Once a flock bed, but repaired with straw.'' --Pope. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Flock paper | Paper coated with flock fixed with glue or size. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Tim Flock | Tim Flock was one of NASCAR's early pioneers. He finished 5th in NASCAR’s inaugural Winston Cup race at Charlotte, North Carolina in 1949. NASCAR's first official season ended with Tim in eighth, Tim's brother Fonty Flock in fifth, and Tim's brother Bob Flock in third in the overall points standing. Tim sat out the 1950 NASCAR season recovering from a four car pile up at Charlotte. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: FLOCKED
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Flocked paper | Industry | Paper which has a velvet-like surface coating consisting of short outward-pointing fibers glued onto the surface. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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