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flock

(fl/A/k )

a church congregation guided by a pastor(noun.group)

source: wordnet30
a group of birds(noun.group)

source: wordnet30
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent(noun.quantity)

Synonym:
batch, deal, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft

source: wordnet30
an orderly crowd(noun.group)

Synonym:
troop

source: wordnet30
a group of sheep or goats(noun.group)

Synonym:
fold

source: wordnet30
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.(noun)

source: webster1913
A lock of wool or hair.(noun)

source: webster1913

move as a crowd or in a group(verb.motion)

Example:
Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears.

source: wordnet30
come together as in a cluster or flock(verb.motion)

Synonym:
clump, cluster, constellate

source: wordnet30
To gather in companies or crowds.(verb)

source: webster1913
To flock to; to crowd.(verb)

source: webster1913
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.(verb)

source: webster1913

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