Flock
[flɒk] or [flɑk]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a group of birds.
(noun.) a group of sheep or goats.
(noun.) a church congregation guided by a pastor.
(verb.) move as a crowd or in a group; 'Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears'.
手打:玛吉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl.
(n.) A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
(v. i.) To gather in companies or crowds.
(v. t.) To flock to; to crowd.
(n.) A lock of wool or hair.
(n.) Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
(sing. / pl.) Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose.
(v. t.) To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.
吉尔手打
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Collection (of sheep, &c.), company.[2]. Lock of wool.
v. n. Congregate, herd, gather in crowds.
整理:韦尔登
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Herd, congregate, {[tli]?}, one, assemble, crowd
ANT:Disperse, scatter, separate, segregate
編輯:纳内特
解釋/意思:
n. a company of animals as sheep birds &c.: a company generally: a Christian congregation.—v.i. to gather in flocks or in crowds.—n. Flock′-mas′ter an owner or overseer of a flock.
n. a lock of wool.—n. Floccillā′tion a delirious picking of the bed-clothes by a patient.—adjs. Floc′cose woolly; Floc′cūlar; Floc′cūlate.—n. Floc′cūlence.—adj. Floc′cūlent woolly flaky.—ns. Floc′cūlus a small flock or tuft: a small lobe of the inferior surface of the cerebellum; Floc′cus a flock or tuft of wool or wool-like hairs: the downy plumage of unfledged birds:—pl. Flocci (flok′si); Flock′-bed a bed stuffed with flock or refuse wool; Flock′-pā′per wall-paper covered with a rough surface formed of flock.—adj. Flock′y.
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例句/造句/用法:
- As soon as the tribe found out that we had a doctor in our party, they began to flock in from all quarters. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- How voud it be in possibility to flock such fine fellow as dat? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The Hindu priest is a part of the family life of his flock, between whom and himself the tie has existed for many generations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They will flock to him, he said, of their own accord, if he pays them. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The recess beneath the counter in which his flock mattress was thrust, looked like a grave. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- I was in the service of a farmer; and with crook in hand, my dog at my side, I shepherded a numerous flock on the near uplands. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Why the tainted wether of the flock, am I not struck to earth among the first? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- There was no Adrian to superintend and direct, while whole flocks of the poor were struck and killed. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Devoid of parents, devoid of relations, devoid of flocks and herds, devoid of gold and silver and of precious stones. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- They rise in flocks of three hundred and flash along above the tops of the waves a distance of two or three hundred feet, then fall and disappear. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- They live by the crook and the bow; half shepherds, half hunters, their flocks wander wild as their prey. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- When its herds and flocks have consumed the forage of one part of the country, it removes to another, and from that to a third. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He was the owner of countless flocks. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The sons of Jacob had been pasturing their flocks near there. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Let all young men present mark this: 'The maidens all flocked to his boat so readily. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- There were but eight; yet, somehow, as they flocked in, they gave the impression of a much larger number. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He kept in mind the practical purposes of mining, and soon people flocked to Freiberg to hear him from all the quarters o f Europe. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Mr. Dubbley did as he was desired; and half a dozen men, each with a short truncheon and a brass crown, flocked into the room. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- We then drove twice up the Park, and Fanny made an effort to answer the beaux who flocked around the carriage, with cheerfulness. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The farmers and cottagers, on the contrary, struck with the fear of solitude, and madly desirous of medical assistance, flocked into the towns. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- On our way there, we had to pass a noisy drinking-house, where a number of men were flocking about the door. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The sisterhood, the maidens, flocking round the young waterman, and urging him along the stream of duty and of temperance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
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