flocking
present participle offlock
| 单词 | flocking |
| 释义 | flocking present participle offlock flock verb uk/flɒk/us/flɑːk/flockverb(MOVE IN GROUP)[Iusually+ adv/prep] tomoveor come together inlargenumbers: Hundreds ofpeopleflockedtothefootballmatch. [+ to infinitive]Crowds ofpeopleflocked toseethe Picassoexhibition. Forming groups (of people)
flockverb(DECORATE)[T] tocoverasurfacewith asoftmaterialinordertodecorateit: You can flock alivingChristmastreetoachievetheeffectofnaturalsnow. a flockedgreetingscard Decorating or making something attractive
Examplesofflockingflocking In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Nor do we find star actorsflockingto be in such plays or films. From theCambridge English Corpus The crinolined women clustered beneath her seem handmaidensflockingto attend her entrance: even a greyhound follows her queenly progress. From theCambridge English Corpus As part of this exercise different cooperative algorithms such as hybridflocking, leader-follower and formation flying were considered. From theCambridge English Corpus The latter indicates thatflockingpropensities of species change as a result of habitat degradation. From theCambridge English Corpus Flockingis used in these instances as a way for crowds to follow paths determined using by pathfinding routines. From theCambridge English Corpus Frequency of mixed-speciesflockingin tropical forest birds and correlates of predation risk: an intertropical comparison. From theCambridge English Corpus The survival value offlockingin neotropical birds: reality or fiction? From theCambridge English Corpus Frequency of mixed speciesflockingin tropical forest birds and correlates of predation risk: an intertropical comparison. From theCambridge English Corpus One can imagineflockingmotion passing through a variety of multidirectional growth processes. From theCambridge English Corpus In this way the extendedflockingalgorithm maintains a group's formation and local obstacle avoidance, leading to the natural-looking movement of agents between goals. From theCambridge English Corpus For example, the behaviour they exhibited, such as the robots 'flocking' around a leader, had not been programmed into their circuits. From theCambridge English Corpus If streams are empty of fish, this is because they areflockingin the treetops as birds. From theCambridge English Corpus There are also group motions such asflocking, streaming and contortion. From theCambridge English Corpus Flockingbehaviour of foraging birds in a neotropical rain forest and the antipredator defence hypothesis. From theCambridge English Corpus Is it any wonder (especially given the incredible importance of ecology and medicine and the incredible power of molecular biology) that college students areflockingto biology departments? From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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