flock

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

1. A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
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.
3. Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
4. A large number of people.
5. A religious congregation.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To flock to; to crowd.

Verb

1. (transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles; especially, to create a dense arrangement of fibers with a desired nap.
2. (transitive) To cover a Christmas tree with artificial snow.
3. (transitive) To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.

Conceitos

rebanho

multidão

manada

bando

floco

montão

gado

tropa

grei

baderna

barafunda

debandada

enxame

leva

👋

tropel

turba

correição

estouro da boiada

mundaréu de gente

turbamulta

aglomerar

roda-viva

cardume

🏫

congregação

cúmulo

horda

juntar-se

legião

andar aos bandos

arrebanhar

Sinônimos

herd

swarm

crowd

group

pack

throng

multitude

school

🏫

collection

drove

mass

shoal

troop

horde

gather

bevy

cluster

band

flight

✈️

mob

congregate

company

stream

assemblage

clump

bunch

gaggle

class

batch

gang

pile

heap

circle

⭕

assembly

covey

rabble

tribe

skein

team

raft

brood

fold

pride

sheep

🐑

party

🥳

pod

mint

mickle

lot

mess

Traduções

troupeau

rebaño

gregge

grex

Herde

Schar

sürü

αγέλη

volée

stormo

branco

Schwarm

kudde

manada

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/flɒk/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: flok

Herdado de inglês arcaico: flocc

Cognato com Middle Low German: vlocke

Cognato com dinamarquês: flok

Cognato com sueco: flock

Cognato com norueguês: flokk

Cognato com feroês: flokkur

Cognato com islandês: flokkur

Cognato com Jèrriais: fliotchet

Cognato com inglês arcaico: folc

Cognato com alemão arcaico alto: flocko

Cognato com holandês médio: vlocke

Cognato com norueguês: -

Cognato com albanês: flokë

In summary

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.

Frases

Now he was here not with his flock , but with a shovel .

Agora ele não estava aqui com seu rebanho, mas com uma pá.