flock

B1 CET-4 大学 FREQ #8331 ★★☆☆☆

n. 兽群, 鸟群, 一群人, 大量, 棉束 vi. 成群而行, 聚集 vt. 用棉束填满

发音

UK /flɒk/
US /flɑk/

词形变化

flocks 复数 flocks 三单 flocking 现在分词 flocked 过去式 flocked 过去分词

释义与例句

n. B1
  1. 1.

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

    群

  2. 2.

    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.

    群

  3. 3.

    Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.

  4. 4.

    A large number of people.

  5. 5.

    A religious congregation.

    宗教
  6. 1.

    Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.

    可数 不可数
  7. 2.

    A lock of wool or hair.

    可数 不可数
  8. 3.

    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.

    可数 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.

    不及物

    People flocked to the cinema to see the new film.

  2. 2.

    To flock to; to crowd.

    废旧 及物
  3. 1.

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

    及物

    the sampling and elution advantages of flocked swabs versus spun swabs

  4. 2.

    To cover a Christmas tree with artificial snow.

    及物
  5. 3.

    To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 10

lot deal mess plenty sight mountain pot mass pile fold

上位词 4

crowd faithful fold congregation

下位词 10

flight flood covert torrent deluge gaggle bevy wisp covey inundation

部分词 2

bird sheep
动词

同义词 3

cluster clump constellate

上位词 9

go move meet travel gather assemble foregather forgather locomote

下位词 4

bunch huddle bunch together bunch up

相关短语

flock paper n. 带绒厚纸 flock worker's lung flock together 聚集在一起,云集 flock papers birds of the feather flock together birds of a feather flock together 物以类聚 flower of the flock 出类拔萃者 flowers of the flock species flock

词源

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.

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