Flock

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
2. isim 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.”

3. isim Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.

   “But lapsed into so long a pause again / As half amazed, half frighted all his flock: [...]”

4. isim A large number of people.

   “The heathen […] came to Nicanor by flocks.”

5. isim A religious congregation.
6. fiil To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.

   “People flocked to the cinema to see the new film.”

7. fiil To flock to; to crowd.

   “Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.”

8. isim Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
9. isim A lock of wool or hair.

   “I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point.”

10. isim 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.

    “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.”

11. fiil To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles; especially, to create a dense arrangement of fibers with a desired nap.

    “the sampling and elution advantages of flocked swabs versus spun swabs”

12. fiil To cover a Christmas tree with artificial snow.
13. fiil To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.
14. özel isim A surname.