different between flock vs party

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)

1. A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
2. 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.
3. Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
4. A large number of people.

   Synonym: congregation

5. (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)

1. (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

2. (transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.
   • 1609, Taylor

     Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.

3. 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)

1. Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
2. A lock of wool or hair.
3. 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)

1. (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

1. flock; a group of people or animals
2. murder of crows

Declension

Related terms

• flockas

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??.ti/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?p??.ti/, [?p????i]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?p?(?)?i/, [?p??(?)?i]
• Rhymes: -??(r)ti
• Hyphenation: par?ty

Etymology 1

From Middle English party, partye, partie, from Anglo-Norman partie, from Medieval Latin part?ta (“a part, party”), from Latin part?ta, feminine of part?tus, past participle of part?r? (“to divide”); see part. Doublet of partita.

Noun

party (plural parties)

1. (law) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
   • 1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued

     if the Jury had found that the party slain had been of English race and nation, it had been adjudged felony

2. A person.
   1. (slang, dated) A person; an individual.
   2. With to: an accessory, someone who takes part.

3. (now rare in general sense) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Ch.6:

     A mile back in the forest the tribe had heard the fierce challenge of the gorilla, and, as was his custom when any danger threatened, Kerchak called his people together, partly for mutual protection against a common enemy, since this gorilla might be but one of a party of several, and also to see that all members of the tribe were accounted for.

   1. (role-playing games, online gaming) Active player characters organized into a single group.
   2. (video games) A group of characters controlled by the player.
4. A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.

   • "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. […] A strong man—a strong one; and a heedless." ¶ "Of what party is he?" she inquired, as though casually.

   • The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

5. (military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.

6. A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
   1. A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing.
   2. A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity.
   3. A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.

7. (obsolete) A part or division.

   • And so the moost party of the castel that was falle doune thorugh that dolorous stroke laye vpon Pellam and balyn thre dayes.

Synonyms

• (social gathering): bash, do, rave
• See also Thesaurus:party

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ?????? (p?r??)
• ? Japanese: ????? (p?t?)
• ? Korean: ?? (pati)

Translations

Verb

party (third-person singular simple present parties, present participle partying, simple past and past participle partied)

1. (intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.

   We partied until the early hours.

2. (intransitive, slang, euphemistic) To take recreational drugs.
3. (intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
4. (online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with).

   If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.

Derived terms

• party down
• party on

Translations

References

• Party (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• party on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English party, from Old French parti (“parted”), from Latin part?tus (“parted”), past participle of partiri (“to divide”). More at part.

Adjective

party (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, except in compounds) Divided; in part.
2. (heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.

   an escutcheon party per pale

Derived terms

Further reading

• party in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• party in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• praty, yrapt

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch partij, from Middle Dutch partie, from Old French partie.

Noun

party (plural partye)

1. party (group, especially a political one)

Determiner

party

1. some, a few

Czech

Alternative forms

• párty

Noun

party f

1. party (gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing)

Synonyms

• See ve?írek

Related terms

• See part

Further reading

• party in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• party in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Pronunciation

Noun

party f or m (plural party's, diminutive party'tje n)

1. party

Synonyms

• feest, fuif

Derived terms

• schuimparty

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?.ti/

Noun

party m or f (plural parties or partys)

1. (Canada) party (social gathering)

Usage notes

party has two genders in French: In Canada, it is a masculine noun, and in France it is a feminine noun.

Derived terms

• garden-party
• party hot-dog
• suicide-party

Further reading

• “party” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?par.ti/

Noun

party m (invariable)

1. party (social gathering)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Noun

party n (definite singular partyet, indefinite plural party or partyer, definite plural partya or partyene)

1. a party (social event)

Synonyms

• fest

References

• “party” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Noun

party n (definite singular partyet, indefinite plural party, definite plural partya)

1. a party (social event)

Synonyms

• fest

References

• “party” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?par.t?/

Participle

party

1. masculine singular passive adjectival participle of prze?

Declension

Portuguese

Verb

party

1. Obsolete spelling of parti

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English party. Doublet of partida.

Noun

party m (plural partys or parties)

1. party

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Pronunciation

Noun

party n

1. party; social gathering

Declension