FLAKE
\flˈe͡ɪk], \flˈeɪk], \f_l_ˈeɪ_k]\
Definitions of FLAKE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"
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come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"
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form into flakes; "The substances started to flake"
By Princeton University
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a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"
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come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A paling; a hurdle.
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A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
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A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
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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.
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A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
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A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
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To form into flakes.
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To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
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A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable.
By Oddity Software
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A paling; a hurdle.
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A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
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A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
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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.
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A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
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A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
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To form into flakes.
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To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
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A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable.
By Noah Webster.
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To form into flakes.
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A loose filmy or scale-like mass of anything; a small flat particle of any matter loosely held together; a flock; a layer; a scale; as, flake of flesh or tallow; a flake of snow; "Little flakes of scurf."-Addison; "Great flakes of ice encompassing our boat."-Evelyn; "Flakes of loam."-Tennyson; a collection or little particle of fire, or of combustible matter on fire, separated and flying off; a sort of carnations of two colors only, having large stripes going through the leaves.
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In Scotland, a hurdle or portable framework of boards or bars for fencing; (naut.) a small stage hung over a ship's side, to calk or repair any breach; in Massachusetts, a platform or stage of hurdles or small sticks interwoven together, and supported by stanobions for drying codfish. etc.
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To break or separate in layers; to peel or scale off.
By Daniel Lyons
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A small film of anything loosely held together, as snow; a thin scaly piece of anything.
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To form into flakes; scale or peel off.
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Flaky.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A scale; small layer; small loose mass.
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To form flakes; separate in flakes.
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To separate into flakes.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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