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Flake

Flake Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Flake? [n] a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye" [n] a crystal of snow [v] come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off" [v] cover with flakes or as if with flakes [v] form into flakes Synonyms \| Synonyms for Flake: bit \| chip \| flake off \| fleck \| peel \| peel off \| scrap \| snowflake Related Terms \| Find terms related to Flake: aliene \| arrange in layers \| avalanche \| band \| bar \| bedlamite \| bespangle \| bespeckle \| bespot \| bit \| blizzard \| blotch \| borderline case \| character \| check \| checker \| chip \| collapse \| crackbrain \| crackpot \| crank \| crystal \| dandruff \| dapple \| delaminate \| dement \| demoniac \| desquamate \| dot \| driven snow \| eccentric \| energumen \| erratic \| exfoliate \| fanatic \| flake off \| fleck \| floccule \| flocculus \| flock \| flurry \| fou \| fragment \| freak \| freckle \| granular snow \| harlequin \| idiot \| igloo \| iris \| keel over \| kook \| lamina \| laminate \| lay down \| lay up \| layer \| loon \| loony \| lunatic \| maculate \| madman \| maniac \| mantle of snow \| marble \| marbleize \| meshuggenah \| mogul \| motley \| mottle \| noncompos \| nonconformist \| nut \| oddball \| paring \| particle \| pass out \| pepper \| phrenetic \| piece \| polychrome \| polychromize \| rainbow \| raving lunatic \| recluse \| scale \| scale off \| scrap \| screwball \| scurf \| shaving \| sliver \| slosh \| slush \| snow \| snow banner \| snow bed \| snow blanket \| snow blast \| snow fence \| snow flurry \| snow roller \| snow slush \| snow squall \| snow wreath \| snowball \| snowbank \| snowbridge \| snowcap \| snow-crystal \| snowdrift \| snowfall \| snowfield \| snowflake \| snowland \| snowman \| snowscape \| snowshed \| snowslide \| snowslip \| snowstorm \| spangle \| speck \| speckle \| splotch \| spot \| sprinkle \| stigmatize \| stipple \| strange duck \| stratify \| streak \| striate \| stripe \| stud \| tattoo \| tessellate \| tuft \| variegate \| vein \| wafer \| weirdo \| wet snow See Also \| break away \| break off \| chip \| chip off \| come off \| cover \| crystal \| exfoliation \| flinders \| form \| fragment \| H2O \| matchwood \| scale \| scurf \| sliver \| snow \| snowfall \| splinter \| water Flake In Webster's Dictionary \Flake\ (fl[=a]k), n. [Cf. Icel. flaki, fleki, Dan. flage, D. vlaak.] 1. A paling; a hurdle. [prov. Eng.] 2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer. --English Husbandman. 3. (Naut.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc. \Flake\ (fl[=a]k), n. [Cf. Icel. flakna to flake off, split, flagna to flake off, Sw. flaga flaw, flake, flake plate, Dan. flage snowflake. Cf. {Flag} a flat stone.] 1. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish. ``Lottle flakes of scurf.'' --Addison. Great flakes of ice encompassing our boat. --Evelyn. 2. A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash. With flakes of ruddy fire. --Somerville. 3. (Bot.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes. {Flake knife} (Arch[ae]ol.), a cutting instrument used by savage tribes, made of a flake or chip of hard stone. --Tylor. {Flake stand}, the cooling tub or vessel of a still worm. --Knight. {Flake white}. (Paint.) (a) The purest white lead, in the form of flakes or scales. (b) The trisnitrate of bismuth. --Ure. \Flake\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flaking}.] To form into flakes. --Pope. \Flake\, v. i. To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off. \Flake\, n. [Etym. uncertain; cf. 1st {Fake}.] A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable. Flake after flake ran out of the tubs, until we were compelled to hand the end of our line to the second mate. --F. T. Bullen.

Flake Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Flake?

[n] a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"
[n] a crystal of snow
[v] come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"
[v] cover with flakes or as if with flakes
[v] form into flakes

Flake In Webster's Dictionary

\Flake\ (fl[=a]k), n. [Cf. Icel. flaki, fleki, Dan. flage,
D. vlaak.]
1. A paling; a hurdle. [prov. Eng.]

2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or
   interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish
   and other things.

         You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer
         them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them
         either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of
         wands, and they will last the longer. --English
                                               Husbandman.

3. (Naut.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for
   workmen to stand on in calking, etc.


\Flake\ (fl[=a]k), n. [Cf. Icel. flakna to flake off,
split, flagna to flake off, Sw. flaga flaw, flake, flake
plate, Dan. flage snowflake. Cf. {Flag} a flat stone.]
1. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a
   film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow,
   tallow, or fish. ``Lottle flakes of scurf.'' --Addison.

         Great flakes of ice encompassing our boat. --Evelyn.

2. A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter,
   darted from a fire; a flash.

         With flakes of ruddy fire.            --Somerville.

3. (Bot.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the
   flower, the petals having large stripes.



{Flake knife} (Arch[ae]ol.), a cutting instrument used by
   savage tribes, made of a flake or chip of hard stone.
   --Tylor.

{Flake stand}, the cooling tub or vessel of a still worm.
   --Knight.

{Flake white}. (Paint.)
   (a) The purest white lead, in the form of flakes or
       scales.
   (b) The trisnitrate of bismuth. --Ure.


\Flake\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flaked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Flaking}.]
To form into flakes. --Pope.


\Flake\, v. i.
To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.


\Flake\, n. [Etym. uncertain; cf. 1st {Fake}.]
A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable.

      Flake after flake ran out of the tubs, until we were
      compelled to hand the end of our line to the second
      mate.                                    --F. T.
                                               Bullen.

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