Flake

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  • noun. A frame or platform for drying fish or produce.
  • noun. A scaffold lowered over the side of a ship to support workers or caulkers.
  • noun. A flat thin piece or layer; a chip.
  • noun. A stone fragment removed from a core or from another flake by percussion or pressure, serving as a preform or as a tool or blade itself.
  • noun. A small piece; a bit.
  • noun. A small crystalline bit of snow.
  • noun. A somewhat eccentric person; an oddball.
  • noun. Cocaine.
  • intransitive verb. To remove a flake or flakes from; chip.
  • intransitive verb. To cover, mark, or overlay with or as if with flakes.
  • intransitive verb. To come off in flat thin pieces or layers.
  • phrasal verb. To fall asleep or collapse from fatigue or exhaustion.
  • phrasal verb. To act in an odd or eccentric manner.
  • phrasal verb. To lose interest or nerve.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A small flat or scale-like particle or fragment of anything; a thin fragment; a scale: as, a flake of tallow; a flake of flint; a flake of snow.
  • noun. Among florists, any variety of carnation in which the petals are marked with stripes of one color upon a white ground.
  • To break or separate in flakes or layers; peel or scale off: absolutely or with off.
  • To form or break into flakes: as, the frost flaked off the plaster.
  • To cover with or as with flakes; fleck.
  • noun. Same as fake.
  • noun. A hurdle or portable framework of wicker, boards, or bars, for fencing; a fence; a paling.
  • noun. Nautical, a small stage hung over a ship's side, from which to calk or repair any breach.
  • noun. A platform for drying salted fish; a fish-flake.
  • noun. A rack for bacon.
  • noun. A wooden frame for oat-cakes.
  • noun. A sort of flap fastened to a saddle to keep the rider's knee from contact with the horse.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A paling; a hurdle.
  • noun. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
  • noun. A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
  • noun. A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable.
  • noun. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale.
  • noun. A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
  • noun. A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
  • noun. a person who behaves strangely; a flaky{2} person.
  • noun. a cutting instrument used by savage tribes, made of a flake or chip of hard stone.
  • noun. the cooling tub or vessel of a still worm.
  • noun. The trisnitrate of bismuth.
  • intransitive verb. To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
  • transitive verb. To form into flakes.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Dogfish.
  • noun. The meat of the gummy shark.
  • noun. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, paint, or fish.
  • noun. A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
  • noun. A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
  • verb. To break or chip off in a flake.
  • verb. To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
  • verb. To store an item such as rope in layers
  • verb. to hit (another person).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. cover with flakes or as if with flakes
  • verb. come off in flakes or thin small pieces
  • Word Usage
    "The thin flake of carbon, the duo created in 2004, just as thick as an atom is exceptionally strong and it conducts electricity like copper."
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    Ache  Blake  Drake  Haik  Jake  
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    bit  chip  chunk  crust  dust  
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