flock
US: /ˈfɫɑk/
UK: /flˈɒk/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
flock /flock/- danh từ
- cụm, túm (bông, len)
- (số nhiều) len phế phẩm, bông phế phẩm (để nhồi nệm)
- bột len, bột vải (để rắc lên giấy dán tường)
- (số nhiều) (hoá học) kết tủa xốp, chất lẳng xốp
- ngoại động từ
- nhồi (nệm...) bằng bông len phế phẩm
- nhồi (nệm...) bằng bông len phế phẩm
- danh từ
- đám đông
- to come in flocks: đến từng đám đông
- đàn, bầy
- a flock of ducks: một đàn vịt
- the teacher and his flock: giáo viên và học sinh của ông
- các con chiên, giáo dân
- there's a black in every flock
- đám con chiên nào cũng có con chiên ghẻ
- đám đông
- nội động từ
- tụ tập, quây quần, tập trung lại thành đám đông
- lũ lượt kéo đến
- crowds of people flocked to the theatre: từng đám đông người lũ lượt kéo đến rạp hát
- birds of a feather flock together
- (xem) bird
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb+ noun
1 [C+sing./pl. v.] ~ (of sth) a group of sheep, goats or birds of the same type
Compare: HERD
2 [C+sing./pl. v.] ~ (of sb) a large group of people, especially of the same type: a flock of children / reporters + They came in flocks to see the procession.
3 [C+sing./pl. v.] (literary) the group of people who regularly attend the church of a particular priest, etc.
4 [U] small pieces of soft fabric used for filling cushions, chairs, etc: a flock mattress
5 [U] small pieces of soft material on the surface of a fabric or paper that produce a raised pattern: flock wallpaper
+ verb
to go or gather together somewhere in large numbers: [V +adv./prep.] Thousands of people flocked to the beach this weekend. + Huge numbers of birds had flocked together by the lake. + [V to inf] People flocked to hear him speak.
Idioms see BIRD
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 body, company, group, band, pack, bunch, troop, set, collection, assembly, convoy, gathering, congregation, crowd, mass, mob, throng, gang, multitude, number, quantity, host, horde, swarm, drove; herd, flight, troupe, fleet, school; bevy:
A huge flock of buyers sought bargains in the post-Christmas sales.
v.
2 assemble, meet, collect, gather, come or go together, congregate, crowd, mass, mob, throng, pour, flood, swarm, herd (together), band together, go:
People flocked around the speaker.
Concise dictionary
flocks|flocked|flockingflɑk /flɒknoun
+a church congregation guided by a pastor
+a group of birds
+(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
+an orderly crowd
+a group of sheep or goats
verb
+move as a crowd or in a group
+come together as in a cluster or flock
