Flock : (양염소새의) 떼, (특히 같은 유형의 사람들) 무리, 떼, (많은 수가) 모이다, 떼 지어 가다, (특정 교회의) 신도들, (선생님) 아이들, 학생들, (쿠션의자 등을 채우는) 충전재 덩어리들, (종이천의 표면에 군데군데 붙인) 솜털 무늬
1)
a flock, a group of animals
a flock of sheep
a flock of goats
a flock of birds
a group, a large number
a flock of people
2)
as a verb, to flock
in summer, the tourists flocked to the beach
to go in large numbers
there were flocks of tourists waiting outside the museum
huge numbers of hordes
flocks of, lots of, you can use flocks of instead of it
people came flocking from far and wide to see the site
to flcok, to come in large numbers
large group, all of one particular type
poeple flocked to the market
people flocking from all over to watch the match
people flocked into the stadium
afterwards they flocked out of the stadium
to crowd
people flocked into the auditorium to listen to the speaker
to be a crowd
to congregate
to head towards a place in large numbers people
2)
a flock as well, very often a priest refers to the members of his congregation he is in charge of as his flock
priest asked his flock to donate money to this charity
3)
you can use this flock probably more figuratively as well
there was a party political convention, and there was the leader of the party and his flock
he is acolytes, the people who followed him
to flock or somebody's flock, their congregation
I guess a teacher as well, particularly with samaller kids, teacher took her flock to the park to do nature study
the group of children in somebody's charge
it's this metaphor of shepherd being in charge of the flock of sheep
4)
this word flock, actually has another meaning
flock is waste wool, is the wool that you don't really want to use because it's the rubbish and it's the bits left over
they use flock to fill pillows or mattresses
5)
you might heard of the phrase 'flocked wallpaper ' or ' flock wallpaper ', this is paper that goes over the wall but it's got a raised design on it
to flock a surface to covor with fibers or particles
flock at Christmass tree, to cover it with artificial snow as well
sort of like to coat
Formality : 4.5 for a flock of people, flocks of people
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