flock

/flɒk/

意味: 群れ（鳥・羊など）

例文: Philo waved at a flock of glowing butterflies.
　　  フィロは光る蝶の群れに手を振った。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: sheep flock(羊の群れ), bird flock(鳥の群れ), flock together(群れを成す)

定義: 群れ、特に動物や鳥の集団を指します。多くの動物が一緒に移動したり、集まったりする様子を表します。

flockは約200,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

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
Noun: an orderly crowd
Noun: a group of sheep or goats
Verb: move as a crowd or in a group
Verb: come together as in a cluster or flock

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

A flock of birds flew across the sky.(空を横切って鳥の群れが飛んだ。)
She saw a flock grazing in the field.(彼女は野原で草を食む群れを見た。)
The shepherd guided his flock carefully.(羊飼いは群れを注意深く導いた。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: a batch of letters
Noun: a deal of trouble
Noun: a lot of money
Noun: he made a mint on the stock market
Noun: see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
Noun: it must have cost plenty
Noun: a slew of journalists
Noun: a wad of money
Noun: a troop of children
Verb: Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears
Verb: The poets constellate in this town every summer

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): batch, clump, cluster, constellate, deal, flock, fold, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, troop, wad

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): animal group, congregation, crowd, large indefinite quantity, meet, travel

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accompany, advance, angle, army, ascend, automobile, back, bang, barrels, batch, battalion, beetle, betake oneself, billow, billyo, boatload, bounce, breed, breeze, brood, busload, caravan, career, carry, caste, caucus, chunk, circle, circuit, circulate, clowder, club, cluster, colony, come, congregate, convene, converge, crawl, crowd, cruise, crush, derail, descend, do, drag, draw, drive, drove, ease, fall, ferry, float, flock, fly, follow, forge, fort, get around, ghost, glide, go around, group, herd, hiss, hive, huddle, hurtle, infinitude, island hop, lance, litter, lurch, maximum, meet, mile, million, mob, much, myriad, ocean, outflank, pace, pack, pan, pass, pass over, phalanx, play, plow, pod, prance, precede, precess, pride, proceed, propagate, pursue, push, raft, ream, repair, retreat, retrograde, return, ride, rise, roll, round, run, rush, school, scramble, seek, shuttle, sift, ski, slice into, slither, small fortune, snowshoe, speed, steamer, step, stray, swap, swash, swim, swing, taxi, team, tons, trail, tram, transfer, travel, travel by, travel purposefully, travel rapidly, troop, trundle, turn, turn out, walk, warren, weave, wend, wheel, whine, whish, whisk, whistle, withdraw, zigzag, zoom

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): bevy, bunch together, covert, covey, exaltation, flight, flood, gaggle, haymow, huddle, wisp

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: clump, cluster, clustering, constellation, flock, heap, pile, plenteous, troop, wad

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: science

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

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Exam Level

英検準1級

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Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

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