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 Definitions of Flake  [ɪk]  

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Definition of 'Flake' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) flake
a small, flat, thin piece, esp. one that has been or become detached from a larger piece or mass.

2.  flake
any small piece or mass.

3.  flake
a stratum or layer.

4.  flake
Slang. an eccentric person; screwball.

5.  flake
Slang.

6. (v.i.) flake
to peel off or fall in flakes.

7. (v.t.) flake
to remove in flakes.

8.  flake
to cover with or as if with flakes.

9.  flake
to break or form into flakes.

10. (n.) flake
a frame, as for drying fish.

11. (v.i.) flake
Slang. to fall asleep.

Etymology:  (1935–40; perh. expressive var. of flag3)

Definition of 'Flake' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) snowflake, flake
a crystal of snow

2. (noun) eccentric, eccentric person, flake, oddball, geek
a person with an unusual or odd personality

3. (verb) bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap
a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
"a bit of rock caught him in the eye"

4. (verb) flake
form into flakes
"The substances started to flake"

5. (verb) flake
cover with flakes or as if with flakes

6. (verb) peel off, peel, flake off, flake
come off in flakes or thin small pieces
"The paint in my house is peeling off"


Definition of 'Flake' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) flake
a small, flat piece
tiny flakes of snow; soap flakes

2. (verb) flake
to come off in flakes
The paint is flaking off the walls.


Definition of 'Flake' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Flake
a paling; a hurdle

2. (noun) Flake
a platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things

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

4. (noun) Flake
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

5. (noun) Flake
a little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash

6. (noun) Flake
a sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes

7. (verb) Flake
to form into flakes

8. (verb) Flake
to separate in flakes; to peel or scale off


Translation of 'Flake' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a very small piece
a snowflake.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: vlokkie Arabic flag Arabic: نَدْفَه، رُقاقَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: снежинка
Brazilian flag Brazilian: floco Czech flag Czech: vločka German flag German: die Flocke
Danish flag Danish: flage; fnug Greek flag Greek: νιφάδα Spanish flag Spanish: copo
Estonian flag Estonian: helves Farsi flag Farsi: ذره؛ دانه Finnish flag Finnish: hiutale
French flag French: flocon Hebrew flag Hebrew: פְּתִית Hindi flag Hindi: सूक्ष्म टुकड़ा
Croatian flag Croatian: pahuljica Hungarian flag Hungarian: pehely Indonesian flag Indonesian: kepingan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: flaga Italian flag Italian: fiocco Japanese flag Japanese: 薄片
Korean flag Korean: (눈, 구름, 깃털 등의) 한 조각 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: gabalėlis, dribsnis, drož Latvian flag Latvian: pārsla; plēksne
Malay flag Malay: kepingan Dutch flag Dutch: vlok, schilfer Norwegian flag Norwegian: flak, (snø)fnugg, spon
Polish flag Polish: płatek Persian flag Persian: ذره؛ دانه Pashto flag Pashto: ټوټه (لكه دواورى) بڅرى، څ
Portuguese flag Portuguese: floco Romanian flag Romanian: fulg Russian flag Russian: хлопья
Slovak flag Slovak: vločka Slovenian flag Slovenian: kosem Serbian flag Serbian: pahulja
Swedish flag Swedish: flinga, flaga, flisa Thai flag Thai: ชิ้นย่อยที่แตกออกมา Turkish flag Turkish: parçacık
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 薄片 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: пушинка; пластівець Urdu flag Urdu: جزو قلیل، پترا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: bông tuyết Chinese flag Chinese: 薄片

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