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Flake   /fleɪk/   Listen
Flake

noun
1.
A crystal of snow.  Synonym: snowflake.
2.
A person with an unusual or odd personality.  Synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, geek, oddball.
3.
A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.  Synonyms: bit, chip, fleck, scrap.
verb
(past & past part. flaked; pres. part. flaking)
1.
Form into flakes.
2.
Cover with flakes or as if with flakes.
3.
Come off in flakes or thin small pieces.  Synonyms: flake off, peel, peel off.



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"Flake" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the coast is bleak, And the storm is wild and fierce, Its frozen flake on the upturned cheek Of the Pilgrim melts in tears, And the dawn that springs from the darkness there Is the morning light ...
— The Complete Works • James Whitcomb Riley
... forward, picked it up, and stood with it in his hand. He glanced at the wall, and saw at once that the nail to which the crucifix had been fastened had come out of its hole. A flake of plaster had been detached, perhaps some days ago, and the hole had become too large to retain the nail. The explanation of the matter was perfect, simple and comprehensible. Yet the priest felt as if a catastrophe had just taken place. As he stared ...
— The Garden Of Allah • Robert Hichens
... a flake of snow in the sunshine. "Oh! Azzolati. It was a most solemn affair. It had occurred to me to make a very elaborate toilet. It was most successful. Azzolati looked positively scared for a moment as though he had got into the ...
— The Arrow of Gold - a story between two notes • Joseph Conrad
... work and snatched the red and yellow ears bare of their frosty husks with marvelous dexterity. The first plunge over, Bradley found as usual that the sharpest pain was over. The wind cut his face, and an occasional driving flake of snow struck and clung to his face and stung. His coat collar chafed his chin, and the frost wet his gloves through and through. But he warmed to it and at last almost forgot it. He fell into thought again, so deep that his work became ...
— A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West • Hamlin Garland
... as he thought, some white larks on a down above my house this winter: were not these the Emberiza nivalis, the snow-flake of the Brit. Zool.? No ...
— The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 • Gilbert White


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