(n.) A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl.
(n.) A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
(v. i.) To gather in companies or crowds.
(v. t.) To flock to; to crowd.
(n.) A lock of wool or hair.
(n.) Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
(sing. / pl.) Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose.
(v. t.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lambing rates approach 1.5 lambs per ewe per year, but a death rate of 23 per cent and an offtake of 27 per cent, means that flock numbers are probably slightly declining.
(2) The effect of scrotal mange (Chorioptes bovis) on semen quality was assessed in a flock of rams during an outbreak of chorioptic mange and in rams with experimentally induced chorioptic mange.
(3) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
(4) Our folks died to get us the right to vote, so go out and use it," he told his flock.
(5) Circumstantial evidence indicated that in the field; the incubation period of P multocida in a turkey flock may be between 2 to 7 weeks.
(6) Twenty-two parent (multiplier) breeder flocks became infected.
(7) Data were collected from flocks located in Kumagaya city (36 degrees N, Japan), where they were subjected to periodic seasonal changes in photoperiod and ambient temperature specific to that area.
(8) Haemagglutinating viruses have been isolated from these flocks and evidence from experimental and field investigations suggest these are the aetiological agents of EDS 76.
(9) The presence of toxoplasmosis was ruled out via investigations of blood sera taken from weaned lambs and from ewes that had miscarried in the same flock, employing the microprecipitation test in agar gel after Hubner and Uhliková.
(10) The program is based on accreditation of flocks that have passed two successive serological tests with an interval of six months between and post-accreditation tests every 12 months.
(11) Also studied was the serum resistance of seven serotype 3, 4 isolates obtained from the lungs of M9-vaccinated turkeys from seven flocks experiencing increased mortality due to fowl cholera.
(12) Many sera that were negative in the AGP test were found to have VN antibodies, and virtually all sera in a commercial flock were free of precipitin but had VN titers.
(13) He added that London remained the "libel capital of the world – the place where the rich and dodgy flock to keep their reputations intact".
(14) Still the audiences flocked to me in Stockholm, Rome, Stockholm and Stockholm.
(15) Both breeds were contained in each of two separate flocks housed indoors year-round on expanded metal floors in windowless buildings.
(16) Of these 48 strains, 43 (90%) came from the southern part of France in which B. melitensis infection in sheep and goats is enzootic and where the dissemination of this species by sheep flocks moving to mountain pastures most often accounted for cattle contamination.
(17) Acquired HEV antibody appeared at 8 to 10 weeks, and 100% of the meat and breeder turkey flocks were positive after 11 weeks of age.
(18) Individual test day yields for 1548 lactations of 600 ewes from 32 flocks (1975 to 1985) were used to define the shape of the lactation curve.
(19) The changes in nematode cholinesterase (ChE) activities were examined in relation to the development of resistance in (1) a flock of young grazing sheep, (2) grazing and penned sheep treated with dexamethasone and (3) penned sheep receiving a single mixed infection.
(20) Early on Sunday morning, Malcolm Turnbull looked out to the Australian electorate and expressed his own profound alienation from the lived experiences of the losers of globalisation – the people who had flocked to Nick Xenophon and Pauline Hanson and to Labor on the basis that the ALP had climbed down partially from the neoliberal pedestal constructed by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.
Frock
Definition:
(n.) A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock.
(n.) A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord.
(v. t.) To clothe in a frock.
(v. t.) To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock.
Example Sentences:
(1) This year though, the annual fest of tit tape, weepy self-congratulation and sheer star power will be remembered for more than a frock faux pas: there was a serious cock-up .
(2) I like a big, extravagant frock, but I wanted to feel like me.
(3) Boyle loves her physical makeover: the glossy, chestnut hair that replaced the grey, and the posh frocks.
(4) Yes, her life making frocks in LA with David and three gorgeous boys must have been torture before.
(5) A stark figure strode across its windswept hilltop, his black frock coat flapping in the breeze as he descended a winding cliff-side staircase, incongruous against the bleak backdrop.
(6) Designed by Future Systems, architects of the Space Age-style press pavilion at Lord's cricket ground in St John's Wood, it has about it, from the outside at least, not just something of a Pop era frock, but something of the sea and even the ocean depths - something, too, of outer space exploration.
(7) That Psy is promoting upmarket frocks and luxury fridges is somewhat ironic, considering Gangnam Style's lampooning of the rampant consumerism that pervades what has been described as South Korea's Beverly Hills.
(8) It might not be immediately obvious from her neat wool jacket, black frock and smart perm, but 55-year-old Kim Su-yeong is, she insists, "very good with weapons" – trained in throwing grenades and firing machine guns.
(9) That's the one where Alexi turns up at family businesses, with amazing biceps in a Max Mara frock and says (I'm paraphrasing) "If you lot weren't such a bunch of pass-agg douchebags, you wouldn't need to expand into sex phonelines.
(10) I recall his guano-spattered union jack frock coat, designed by Alexander McQueen, on the cover of his 1997 drum'n'bass record Earthling.
(11) What appeared was Humphrey Carpenter, resplendent in an outrageous frock and an even more outrageous wig and make-up.
(12) Women nipped about on mopeds in summer frocks instead of the usual leather clobber; sales of bikes and scooter below the 125cc limit - which allowed you unlimited travel if you had L-plates - went up by a quarter.
(13) From the same source: Zooey Deschanel is wearing an Oscar de la Renta frock.
(14) He became not only the first contemporary artist to deliver the annual Reith Lectures for BBC’s Radio 4 in 2013, but also presented documentaries for Channel 4 with titles such as Why Men Wear Frocks.
(15) There's a wider range of faces, fewer handlebar moustaches, frock coats or pickelhaubes, but otherwise, when the world's governments try to decide how to carve up the atmosphere, they might have been attending the conference of Berlin in 1884.
(16) At 21, he leaves the family nest in Cornwall to take up his barrister pupillage in London and, yearning for love, meets Mary (Rachel McAdams), whose under-par frock and non-glam fringe can't deflect his and our appreciation of what a babe she is.
(17) Not the usual flowered frock but not upstage-y either, her frock today is now anticipated with interest.
(18) His graduate collection – which featured strands of human hair in the linings of frock-coat jackets – was called Jack The Ripper Stalks His Victims.
(19) It was obvious from a young age, he says, because she’d see him in his frocks.
(20) You mean, you couldn’t be seen at the Royal Academy in a nice frock and a stiffy?