different between flock vs convocation
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
flock From the web:
- what flock means
- what flock of birds is called a congress
- what flock of birds is called a kindness
- what flock of birds is called a parliament
- what's flocking powder
- what's flocked tree
- what's flocked iron on
- what's flock wallpaper
convocation
English
Etymology
From Middle English convocacioun, from Old French convocation, from Latin convocatio, convocationem.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
convocation (countable and uncountable, plural convocations)
- The act of calling or assembling by summons.
- An assembly or meeting.
- An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
- An academic assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.
Coordinate terms
- (academic assembly): commencement
Related terms
- convoke
- convocate
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin convocatio, convocationem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.v?.ka.sj??/
Noun
convocation f (plural convocations)
- convocation
Related terms
- convoquer
convocation From the web:
- what convocation certificate
- what's convocation ceremony
- convocation means
- what's convocation in college
- what convocation means in english
- convocation what to wear
- convocation what does that mean
- what is convocation day
you may also like
- flock vs convocation
- defiant vs intractable
- space vs reach
- barricade vs hedge
- hairy vs prickly
- feeble vs small
- cabal vs guild
- lovable vs goodhumoured
- sauciness vs brazenness
- astound vs electrify
- ungallant vs loathsome
- provocative vs aggressive
- ancient vs primary
- post vs commission
- plait vs twist
- asininity vs childishness
- line vs preoccupation
- trace vs dash
- sham vs travesty
- inferior vs unsatisfactory