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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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array
English
Etymology
From Middle English arrayen, from Anglo-Norman arraier (compare Old French arraier, areer (“to put in order”)), from Medieval Latin arr?d? (“to put in order, arrange, array”), from *r?dum (“preparation, order”), from Frankish *reida (“preparation, order”) or Gothic ???????????????????????????? (garaiþs, “ready, prepared”), from Proto-Germanic *raidaz, *raidiz (“ready”). Doublet of ready.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???e?/
- (US) IPA(key): /???e?/, /?æ.????/ (UK)
- Rhymes: -e?
Noun
array (countable and uncountable, plural arrays)
- Clothing and ornamentation.
- A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
- An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- But the chivalry of France was represented by as gallant an array of nobles and cavaliers as ever fought under the banner of the lilies
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
- drawn up in battle array
- wedged together in the closest array
- A large collection.
- 1814, Lord Byron, The Corsair
- their long array of sapphire and of gold
- We offer a dazzling array of choices.
- 1814, Lord Byron, The Corsair
- (mathematics) Common name for matrix.
- (programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.
- (law) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
- (military) A militia.
- A group of hedgehogs.
- A microarray.
Usage notes
- (any of various data structures): The exact usage of the term array, and of related terms, generally depends on the programming language. For example, many languages distinguish a fairly low-level "array" construct from a higher-level "list" or "vector" construct. Some languages distinguish between an "array" and a variety of "associative array"; others have only the latter concept, calling it an "array".
Antonyms
- (orderly series): disarray
Hyponyms
Related terms
Translations
References
See also
- (any of various data structures): ones-based indexing, zero-based indexing
Verb
array (third-person singular simple present arrays, present participle arraying, simple past and past participle arrayed)
- To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.
- To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal.
- (law) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.
Synonyms
- (to clothe and ornament): don, dress, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe or Thesaurus:decorate
Translations
Portuguese
Etymology
From English array.
Noun
array m (plural arrays)
- (programming) array (any of various data structures)
- Synonym: vetor
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