flock

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Nerds tend to flock, because flocking is important.

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a church congregation guided by a pastor

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of flock gathered in one view.

noun

a church congregation guided by a pastor

noun

a group of birds

noun

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for flock.

noun

a church congregation guided by a pastor

noun

a group of birds

noun

an orderly crowd; "a troop of children"

noun

a group of sheep or goats

verb

move as a crowd or in a group; "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears"

verb

come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer"

Example sentences

Nerds tend to flock, because flocking is important.

You need to programmatically grow and shrink your app server flock?

Those folks returned to their communities as true believers and encouraged their flock to get on the train.

Many customers aren't so stingy they'll balk at paying an extra dollar, they simply flock to free apps because you can't beat free.

A bellwether is a male sheep at the head of a flock, around whose neck a bell is hung so that you can hear where the flock is even when you can't see it.

That might cost money – even though the lost goodwill will mean that customers will abandon the business and flock to better alternatives.

When you have a flock of people it gets worse, because they are all playing follow the leader as they all want to take the shortest path to the closest unoccupied house.

Cocky because there is a pervasive mindset that if Microsoft builds it that customers will automatically flock.

In the past year we've seen professionals flock to instagram to help promote their craft - with the new language I'd imagine you'll see a mass exodus from those folks pretty quickly.

With 2-6 hens, the flock is more centered around the human, allow themselves to be touched and hand fed, and exhibit recognizable personalities.

I'm all for teaching them to challenge that presumption, but I think you'd get a more fair result if the question was, "Can you figure out the age of the shepherd if you know how many dogs and sheep he has in his flock?

They aren't going to flock to your offices to take your grammar test, and you won't have to pass on great programmers due to bad grammar.> Grammar signifies more than just a person's ability to remember high school English.

"...how do you explain the fact that people flock to the stores to buy Apple products at full price when Wal-Mart, Best-Buy, and Target carry most of them, often discounted in various ways, and Amazon carries them all and doesn't charge sales tax!

In order to succeed, a direct competitor to facebook needs to find a chink in facebooks armor and exploit it...not just assume that everyone will flock to an "alternative to facebook" because it is an "alternative to facebook".

To the naysayers in this thread: You have several options here other than just saying 'oohhh, this is mean and nasty'.- match the offer with a better one, so all those that would take up the OP would flock to you instead- build your MVP, keep 100% and then do your own marketing.