Flock
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.
A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
To gather in companies or crowds.
To flock to; to crowd.
A lock of wool or hair.
Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
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.
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.
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Flock Quotations
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert Einstein
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill
Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.
Ross Perot
It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
Ovid
Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
Miguel De Cervantes
I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.
Evita Peron
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
Francis Beaumont
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
Oliver Cromwell
When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.
Joe Rogan
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
Tacitus
We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.
Joel Coen
Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.
Joanna Southcott
The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.
Theda Bara
I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.
John Woolman
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
Richard Whately
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
John Webster
If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.
Brittany Daniel
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.
Anna Howard Shaw
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Flock Translations
flock in Afrikaans is trop, kudde
flock in Dutch is roedel, kudde
flock in French is troupeau
flock in German is Herde
flock in Italian is mandria
flock in Latin is caterva
flock in Norwegian is flokk, flokkes, ulldott
flock in Portuguese is rebanho
flock in Spanish is reba o, bandada
flock in Swedish is hjord, flock, tapp, skocka sig
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