Flake
[fleɪk] or [flek]
Definition
(verb.) cover with flakes or as if with flakes.
(verb.) form into flakes; 'The substances started to flake'.
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Definition
(n.) A paling; a hurdle.
(n.) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
(n.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
(n.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
(v. t.) To form into flakes.
(v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
Editor: Terence
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Scale, lamina, layer.
v. n. Scale off, come off in flakes.
Editor: Rochelle
Definition
n. (Scot.) a movable hurdle for fencing; (naut.) a stage hung over a ship's side for caulking &c.
n. a small flat layer or film of anything: a very small loose mass as of snow or wool.—v.t. to form into flakes.—ns. Flake′-white the purest white-lead for painting in the form of scales or plates; Flak′iness.—adj. Flak′y.
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Examples
- Its head struck with such force that the early hunter decided to give it a sharp point, shaped from a flake of flint, in order that it might drive deep into the body of a deer or bear. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Any frescoes were good when they started to peel and flake off. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Nor that a flake of snow had ever fallen. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You simply fastened a flake of flint in the cock and snapped it against a steel plate. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It should be noted that the layers of flake nickel extend practically unbroken across the tube and make contact with the metal wall at both sides. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And any one could see that he shook with fear, and that there broke out upon his lips curious white flakes, like thin snow. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was so dark now you could only see the flakes blowing past and the rigid dark of the pine trunks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- For a week the Grand Army struggled through mud; then came sharp frosts, and then the first flakes of snow, and then snow and snow. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By the time they reached the camp it was snowing and the flakes were dropping diagonally through the pines. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It was a heavy, settled fall, I recollect, in great flakes; and it lay thick. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The flakes were coming heavy and fast in the rain. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We proceeded through the snow, which lay in masses impeding the way, while the descending flakes, driving against me with redoubled fury, blinded me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was well cooked, the rabbit meat flaked off the bones, and the sauce was delicious. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I shut one eye and peered within--it was flaked with iron rust like an old steamboat boiler. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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