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# flock

«flock» in Mova's school dictionary: **a group of birds or sheep together** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (flock, flocks); verb (flock, flocks, flocked, flocking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A flock is a group of birds or sheep together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flock/#m1)

2) A flock is a big crowd of people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flock/#m2)

3) To flock is to come together or go somewhere in large numbers: «people flocked to the beach». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flock/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a group of animals counted as one; animals per flock is a rate; animals join or leave the flock; in science: birds fly in flocks to stay safe and find food, some flocks migrate together; in stories: a shepherd looks after his flock; phrases: «a flock of sheep», «flock to», «birds of a feather flock together» (similar people stay together)

### examples

- A flock of 30 sheep grazed on the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flock/#x1)
- 8 birds flew away from the flock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flock/#x2)
- There are 4 flocks with 12 geese each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flock/#x3)
- How many birds are in the flock now? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flock/#x4)
- A flock of geese flew south for the winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flock/#x5)
- The shepherd counted his flock every evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flock/#x6)
- Crowds flocked to the beach on the hot day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flock/#x7)
- Birds of a feather flock together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flock/#x8)

### note

A group word: birds joining add, birds flying away take away; flocks × birds per flock = all birds. Trap: count birds, not flocks, unless asked. Other group words: a herd of cows, a school of fish, a pack of wolves.

### In the corpora

- [Picture a hillside: a shepherd whistles, the dog swings left round the flock, and three hundred sheep move as one.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/3/)
- [A pet budgie is a flock bird living in a house.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/1/)
- [Donkeys, llamas and sheepdogs are used to guard flocks, and a guard donkey will chase away foxes and stray dogs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth/15/)
- [Budgies are flock birds that need a friend, a big cage and time to fly in a safe room.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/8/)
- [A collective noun names a group, like a team, a class, a herd or a flock of sheep.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flock» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flock/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.