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accumulation
English
Etymology
- First attested in the late 15th century.
- accumulate +? -ion, or borrowed from Latin accumulatio, accumulationis. Doublet of accumulatio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?.?kju?m.j?.?le?.??n/
- Hyphenation: ac?cu?mu?la?tion
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
accumulation (countable and uncountable, plural accumulations)
- The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
- The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
- A mass of something piled up or collected.
- (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
- (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
- (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
- (Britain, education, historical, uncountable) The practice of taking two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce the length of study.
Synonyms
- (accounting): retained earnings
Antonyms
- decumulation
Related terms
- accumulate
- accumulator
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin accumulatio, accumulationem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ky.my.la.sj??/
Noun
accumulation f (plural accumulations)
- accumulation (action of accumulating)
- accumulation (result of accumulating)
Related terms
- accumuler
Further reading
- “accumulation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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flock
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /fl?k/
- (US) IPA(key): /fl?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English flock (“flock”), from Old English flocc (“flock, company, troop”), from Proto-Germanic *flukkaz, *flakka- (“crowd, troop”). Cognate with Middle Low German vlocke (“crowd, flock”), Old Norse flokkr (“crowd, troop, band, flock”). Perhaps related to Old English folc (“crowd, troop, band”). More at folk.
Noun
flock (plural flocks)
- A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
- A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of various farmed animals, such as sheep and goats, but applied to a wide variety of animals.
- Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
- A large number of people.
- Synonym: congregation
- (Christianity) A religious congregation.
- Synonym: congregation
Synonyms
(large number of people):
- bunch, gaggle, horde, host, legion, litter, nest, rabble, swarm, throng, wake
Translations
Verb
flock (third-person singular simple present flocks, present participle flocking, simple past and past participle flocked)
- (intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
- People flocked to the cinema to see the new film.
- What place the gods for our repose assigned.
Friends daily flock; and scarce the kindly spring
Began to clothe the ground
- What place the gods for our repose assigned.
- (transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.
- 1609, Taylor
- Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.
- 1609, Taylor
- To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English flok (“tuft of wool”), from Old French floc (“tuft of wool”), from Late Latin floccus (“tuft of wool”), probably from Frankish *flokko (“down, wool, flock”), from Proto-Germanic *flukk?n-, *flukkan-, *fluks?n- (“down, flock”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“hair, fibres, tuft”). Cognate with Old High German flocko (“down”), Middle Dutch vlocke (“flock”), Norwegian dialectal flugsa (“snowflake”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian flokë (“hair”).
Noun
flock (countable and uncountable, plural flocks)
- Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
- A lock of wool or hair.
- 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.
- There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Translations
Verb
flock (third-person singular simple present flocks, present participle flocking, simple past and past participle flocked)
- (transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles; especially, to create a dense arrangement of fibers with a desired nap.
Translations
Derived terms
- flocked
See also
- Appendix:English collective nouns
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish flokker, flukker, from Old Norse flokkr, from Proto-Germanic *flukkaz. Cognate with Faroese flokkur, Icelandic flokkur, Norwegian flokk, and Danish flok.
Pronunciation
Noun
flock c
- flock; a group of people or animals
- murder of crows
Declension
Related terms
- flockas
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