flake

[Flake]

A flake is a tiny piece of something. A flake could be a tasty morsel like a croissant flake, or a not so tasty morsel like a dandruff flake. Ewww.

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A paling; a hurdle.

Noun
a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"

Noun
a person with an unusual or odd personality

Noun
a crystal of snow

Verb
come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"

Verb
cover with flakes or as if with flakes

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Verb
form into flakes; "The substances started to flake"


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.


Flake

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

Flake

Flake , 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.
2. A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
With flakes of ruddy fire.
3. (Bot.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes. Flake knife (Arch'91ol.), 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

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

Flake

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

A paling; a hurdle.

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.

To form into flakes.

To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.

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