different between flock vs team

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

• IPA^(key): /ti?m/
• Rhymes: -i?m
• Homophone: teem

Etymology 1

From Middle English teme, from Old English t?am (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijan?, *tug?n?, *teuh?n?, *teuhan? (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Scots team, teem (“a chain, harness”), West Frisian team (“bridle, team”), Dutch toom (“bridle, reins, flock of birds”), German Zaum (“bridle”), Norwegian tømme (“bridle, rein”), Swedish töm (“leash, rein”). More at teem, tie, tow.

Noun

team (plural teams)

1. A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 111:

     The adjacent alleys were choked with tethered wagons, the teams reversed and nuzzling gnawed corn-ears over the tail-boards.

2. Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.

3. (obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.

   • she will wonder to have a teeme of ducklings about her

   • a long team of snowy swans on high

4. (Britain, law, obsolete) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
   • 1871, Alexander M. Burrill, Law Dictioary & Glossary, vol II, [1]

     TEAM, Theam, Tem, Them. Sax. [from tyman, to propagate, to teem.] In old English law. Literally, an offspring, race or generation. A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes and villeins, and their offspring or suit. They who had a jurisdiction of this kind, were said to have a court of Theme... constantly used in the old books in connection with toll, in the expression Toll & Team.

5. A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.

Usage notes

• In British English, team is construed as plural, emphasizing the members. In US English it is construed as singular, emphasizing the group. This conforms to the general practice in the two dialects for collective nouns.
  • British English:
  • American English:

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

team (third-person singular simple present teams, present participle teaming, simple past and past participle teamed)

1. (intransitive) To form a group, as for sports or work.

2. (intransitive, by extension) To go together well; to harmonize.
   • 2005, Jill Dupleix, Good Cooking: The New Basics (page 32)

     Rich, creamy avocado is cut back by the citrus sharpness of grapefruit in this Israeli-inspired salad. It's brilliant for a brunchy breakfast, and teams well with grilled salmon, tuna, or mackerel for dinner.

3. (transitive) To convey or haul with a team.
   • 1857, Henry David Thoreau journal entry for Feb. 4 1857

     the farmer has been all winter teaming wood along the river

4. (transitive) To form together into a team.

5. (transitive) To give work to a gang under a subcontractor.

Derived terms

• double-team

Etymology 2

Verb

team

1. Misspelling of teem.

Anagrams

• AEMT, ATEM, Atem, META, Meta, Tame, Tema, mate, maté, meat, meta, meta-, tame

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English team, from Middle English teme, from Old English t?am (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijan?, *tug?n?, *teuh?n?, *teuhan? (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Doublet with native Dutch toom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?m/

Noun

team n (plural teams, diminutive teampje n)

1. team (group of people)

   Synonym: ploeg

Derived terms

• fabrieksteam
• onderzoeksteam
• teamgeest
• teambuilding

Italian

Noun

team m (invariable)

1. team (group of people)

   Synonyms: squadra, gruppo

Anagrams

• meta, metà, tema

Middle English

Noun

team

1. Alternative form of teme (“folk”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English team

Noun

team n (definite singular teamet, indefinite plural team, definite plural teama or teamene)

1. a team

Synonyms

• lag

Derived terms

• teamarbeid

References

• “team” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English team

Noun

team n (definite singular teamet, indefinite plural team, definite plural teama)

1. a team

Synonyms

• lag

Derived terms

• teamarbeid

References

• “team” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“pull, draw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæ???m/

Noun

t?am m (nominative plural t?amas)

1. childbirth
2. family, offspring
3. a team of draught animals
4. an Anglo-Saxon legal procedure in a stolen goods suit

Declension

Related terms

• t?eman

Descendants

• Middle English: teme, team, tæm, tem
  • English: team (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: team, teem

Swedish

Etymology

From English team.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?m/
• Rhymes: -i?m

Noun

team n

1. a team of people

Declension

Synonyms

• lag

Anagrams

• meta, tame, tema

West Frisian

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

team c (plural teammen, diminutive teamke)

1. bridle

Further reading

• “team (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English team.

Noun

team n (plural teams, diminutive teamke)

1. team

   Synonym: ploech

Derived terms

• teamwurk