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ALL meanings of flake

flake
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  • noun flake of snow 1
  • noun flake flat piece 1
  • abbreviation FLAKE food 1
  • noun flake person: unreliable 1
  • intransitive verb flake come off in flakes 1
  • noun flake A small, flat, thin piece of something, typically one that has broken away or been peeled off from a larger piece. 1
  • noun flake fake2 (defs 2, 3). 1
  • verb without object flake to peel off or separate in flakes. 1
  • verb without object flake to fall in flakes, as snow. 1
  • verb with object flake fake2 (def 1). 1
  • verb with object flake to lower (a fore-and-aft sail) so as to drape the sail equally on both sides over its boom. 1
  • verb flake flake out, Slang. to fall asleep; take a nap. 1
  • noun flake 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. 0
  • noun flake (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone. 0
  • noun flake (Informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living. 0
  • noun flake A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes. 0
  • noun flake (Britain) Dogfish. 0
  • noun flake (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark. 0
  • noun flake (Britain, dialect) A paling; a hurdle. 0
  • noun flake A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. 0
  • noun flake (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc. 0
  • noun flake (nautical) Alternative form of fake (turn or coil of cable or hawser). 0
  • verb flake To break or chip off in a flake. 0
  • verb flake (Colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through. 0
  • verb flake (technical) To store an item such as rope in layers. 0
  • verb flake (Slang) (Ireland) to hit (another person). 0
  • countable noun flake A flake is a small thin piece of something, especially one that has broken off a larger piece. 0
  • verb flake If something such as paint flakes, small thin pieces of it come off. 0
  • verb flake Flake off means the same as flake. 0
  • ergative verb flake If a food such as fish flakes, or if you flake it, it breaks into small thin pieces. 0
  • noun flake a small thin piece or layer chipped off or detached from an object or substance; scale 0
  • noun flake a small piece or particle 0
  • noun flake a thin layer or stratum 0
  • noun flake a fragment removed by chipping or hammering from a larger stone used as a tool or weapon 0
  • noun flake (as modifier) 0
  • noun flake an eccentric, crazy, or unreliable person 0
  • verb flake to peel or cause to peel off in flakes; chip 0
  • verb flake to cover or become covered with or as with flakes 0
  • verb flake to form into flakes 0
  • noun flake a rack or platform for drying fish or other produce 0
  • noun flake (in Australia) the commercial name for the meat of the gummy shark 0
  • noun flake a small, thin mass 0
  • noun flake a thin piece or layer split off or peeled off from anything; chip 0
  • noun flake an eccentric, unbalanced, or irrational person 0
  • verb transitive flake to chip or peel off in flakes 0
  • verb transitive flake to make or become spotted with flakes 0
  • noun flake a platform or rack for storing or drying food 0
  • abbreviation FLAKE fake2 0
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