| flock | | |
| n. (group) | 1. flock | a church congregation guided by a pastor. |
| ~ congregation, faithful, fold | a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church. |
| n. (group) | 2. flock | a group of birds. |
| ~ bird | warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings. |
| ~ bevy | a flock of birds (especially when gathered close together on the ground).; "we were visited at breakfast by a bevy of excited ducks" |
| ~ covert | a flock of coots. |
| ~ covey | a small flock of grouse or partridge. |
| ~ exaltation | a flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight overhead). |
| ~ gaggle | a flock of geese. |
| ~ wisp | a flock of snipe. |
| ~ animal group | a group of animals. |
| ~ flight | a flock of flying birds. |
| n. (quantity) | 3. batch, deal, flock, 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, wad | (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" |
| ~ large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude. |
| ~ deluge, flood, inundation, torrent | an overwhelming number or amount.; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" |
| ~ haymow | a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation. |
| n. (group) | 4. flock, troop | an orderly crowd.; "a troop of children" |
| ~ crowd | a large number of things or people considered together.; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers" |
| n. (group) | 5. flock, fold | a group of sheep or goats. |
| ~ sheep | woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat. |
| ~ animal group | a group of animals. |
| v. (motion) | 6. flock | move as a crowd or in a group.; "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| v. (motion) | 7. clump, cluster, constellate, flock | come together as in a cluster or flock.; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" |
| ~ huddle, huddle together | crowd or draw together.; "let's huddle together--it's cold!" |
| ~ bunch, bunch together, bunch up | form into a bunch.; "The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom" |
| ~ foregather, forgather, assemble, gather, meet | collect in one place.; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" |
| school | | |
| n. (group) | 1. school | an educational institution.; "the school was founded in 1900" |
| ~ educational institution | an institution dedicated to education. |
| ~ academy | a school for special training. |
| ~ correspondence school | a school that teaches nonresident students by mail. |
| ~ crammer | a special school where students are crammed. |
| ~ dancing school | a school in which students learn to dance. |
| ~ direct-grant school | formerly a school that charged tuition fees and also received government grants in return for admitting certain non-paying students who were nominated by the local authorities. |
| ~ driving school | a school where people are taught to drive automobiles. |
| ~ finishing school | a private school for girls that emphasizes training in cultural and social activities. |
| ~ flying school | a school for teaching students to fly airplanes. |
| ~ grad school, graduate school | a school in a university offering study leading to degrees beyond the bachelor's degree. |
| ~ language school | a school for teaching foreign languages. |
| ~ nursing school, school of nursing | a school for training nurses. |
| ~ religious school | a school run by a religious body. |
| ~ riding school | a school where horsemanship is taught and practiced. |
| ~ gymnasium, lycee, lyceum, middle school, secondary school | a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12. |
| ~ secretarial school | a school where secretarial skills (typing and shorthand and filing etc) are taught. |
| ~ tech, technical school | a school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences. |
| ~ training school | a school providing practical vocational and technical training. |
| ~ veterinary school | a school teaching veterinary medicine. |
| ~ conservatory | the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts. |
| ~ faculty, staff | the body of teachers and administrators at a school.; "the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university" |
| ~ alma mater | your alma mater is a school you graduated from. |
| ~ public school | a tuition free school in the United States supported by taxes and controlled by a school board. |
| ~ private school | a school established and controlled privately and supported by endowment and tuition. |
| ~ dance school | a school where students are taught to dance. |
| ~ day school | a school giving instruction during the daytime. |
| ~ night school | a school that holds classes in the evenings for students who cannot attend during the day. |
| ~ sabbath school, sunday school | school meeting on Sundays for religious instruction. |
| ~ elementary school, grade school, primary school, grammar school | a school for young children; usually the first 6 or 8 grades. |
| ~ school teacher, schoolteacher | a teacher in a school below the college level. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. school, schoolhouse | a building where young people receive education.; "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning" |
| ~ building, edifice | a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place.; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" |
| ~ classroom, schoolroom | a room in a school where lessons take place. |
| ~ conservatoire, conservatory | a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts. |
| ~ day school | a school building without boarding facilities. |
| ~ school system | establishment including the plant and equipment for providing education from kindergarten through high school. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. school, schooling | the process of being formally educated at a school.; "what will you do when you finish school?" |
| ~ education | the gradual process of acquiring knowledge.; "education is a preparation for life"; "a girl's education was less important than a boy's" |
| n. (group) | 4. school | a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers.; "the Venetian school of painting" |
| ~ body | a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity.; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative body" |
| ~ ashcan school, eight | a group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life. |
| ~ deconstructivism | a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction. |
| ~ historical school | a school of 19th century German economists and legal philosophers who tried to explain modern economic systems in evolutionary or historical terms. |
| ~ pointillism | a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France. |
| ~ art nouveau | a French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s; characterized by stylized natural forms and sinuous outlines of such objects as leaves and vines and flowers. |
| ~ lake poets | English poets at the beginning of the 19th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it. |
| ~ secession, sezession | an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s. |
| n. (time) | 5. school, school day, schooltime | the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session.; "stay after school"; "he didn't miss a single day of school"; "when the school day was done we would walk home together" |
| ~ period, period of time, time period | an amount of time.; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" |
| ~ study hall | a period of time during the school day that is set aside for study. |
| n. (group) | 6. school | an educational institution's faculty and students.; "the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game" |
| ~ educational institution | an institution dedicated to education. |
| n. (group) | 7. school, shoal | a large group of fish.; "a school of small glittering fish swam by" |
| ~ fish | any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills.; "the shark is a large fish"; "in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish" |
| ~ animal group | a group of animals. |
| v. (social) | 8. school | educate in or as if in a school.; "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions" |
| ~ educate | give an education to.; "We must educate our youngsters better" |
| ~ home-school | educate (one's children) at home instead of sending (them) to a school.; "The parents are home-schooling their daughter" |
| v. (social) | 9. civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, school, train | teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment.; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" |
| ~ fine-tune, refine, polish, down | improve or perfect by pruning or polishing.; "refine one's style of writing" |
| ~ sophisticate | make less natural or innocent.; "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls" |
| v. (motion) | 10. school | swim in or form a large group of fish.; "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait" |
| ~ swim | travel through water.; "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank" |
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