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Definition: Flake |
FlakeNoun1. A crystal of snow. 2. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye". Verb1. Form into flakes. 2. Cover with flakes or as if with flakes. 3. Come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flake" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Fragments of flesh the initial muscle structure of which is maintained and which are of heterogeneous size. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A film detached from the inner surface of a container, as a result of chemical attack, from which most of the constituents except silica have been leached(for example by treatment in an autoclave). Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Fine fissures found lying in all directions in the interior of steel forgings. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Internal fissure in ferrous metal. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: FlakeSynonyms: bit (n), chip (n), fleck (n), scrap (n), snowflake (n), flake off (v), peel (v), peel off (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Layer | Plate; lamina, lamella; sheet, foil; wafer; scale, flake, peel; coat, pellicle; membrane, film; leaf; slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument; (covering); eschar. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Flake |
| English words defined with "flake": bran flake ♦ corn flake ♦ Flaked, Flaking, Fleak ♦ scale, scurf ♦ wheatflake. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flake": amorphous graphite ♦ cereal miller, cetyl alcohol ♦ flake graphite, FLAKE MILLER, WHEAT AND OATS, fusion method ♦ GRAPHITE PAN-DRIER TENDER ♦ Hexadecanol ♦ polychromatic finish ♦ racemase ♦ scrap mica ♦ THERMAL-SURFACING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "flake": Fleak. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | This is only the most important thing we've done together and you flake out on me (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) Jim, when I said you were a flake, I meant you'd done some weird things (Taxi; writing credit: Grahame Bond; Jim Burnett) If you flake around with the weed, you'll end up using the harder stuff (High School Confidential!; writing credit: Robert Blees; Lewis Meltzer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Major Flake (2001) Valerie Flake (1999) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Beginning to flake down the net after completing a set and beginning to retrieve the net prior to harvesting the fish. Credit: Fisheries. |
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| "Flake" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.32% of the time. "Flake" is used about 202 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 68.32% | 138 | 27,024 |
| Noun (proper) | 15.84% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 10.4% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.45% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 202 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "flake" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Flake | Last name | 1,000 | 8,575 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "flake": bernie's flake ♦ bran flake ♦ chocolate flake ♦ corn flake ♦ Flake knife ♦ flake off ♦ flake out ♦ Flake stand ♦ Flake white ♦ snow flake. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "flake": flake-baited, flake-laden. | |
Ending with "flake": growth-flake, no-flake, snow-flake. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
flake | 134 | bran flake | 12 |
frosted flake | 83 | haw flake | 11 |
snow flake | 74 | flake tab | 10 |
flake jack johnson lyrics | 56 | jake the flake | 10 |
corn flake | 47 | flake g sharon | 10 |
flake lyrics | 40 | cookie corn flake | 9 |
jack johnson flake | 28 | flake mica | 9 |
flake golden | 22 | jeff flake | 8 |
picture of snow flake | 22 | ice flake maker | 8 |
ice flake machine | 20 | flake gary | 8 |
metal flake | 19 | bread flake japanese panko | 8 |
kelloggs corn flake | 17 | porn flake | 8 |
flake jack johnson tab | 16 | elsner flake | 7 |
corn flake recipe | 16 | caustic soda flake | 7 |
flake soap | 15 | sharon flake | 7 |
kellogs corn flake | 15 | flake ice | 7 |
floyd flake | 14 | flake glass | 7 |
cadbury flake | 14 | potato flake | 7 |
metal flake paint | 13 | shellac flake | 6 |
kelloggs frosted flake | 13 | chicken corn flake | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "flake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | afskilfer (flake off, peel, peel off, scale, scale off). (various references) | |
Albanian | formoj flokë, flok dëbore (snowflake), skarë për tharjen e peshkut, shtresë (bed, coat, coating, course, covering, estate, floor, horizon, layer, nappe, reach, region, seam, sheet, strata, stratum, streak, tract, wash), njeri i jashtëzakonshëm, leskërohet (flake off), leskër (scale, scurf, squama), bie flokë-flokë. (various references) | |
Arabic | فتت (break up, crumb, crumble, fragment, fragmentize, fritter), منصة لتجفيف السمك, نديفة, تقشر (detachment, peel), رقاقة (chip, particle, plate, wafer), رقائق (cracker). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | снежинка (snowflake), сипя се (snow in, snow up), рамка (casing, frame, framework, holder, hoop, pelmet, rack, rim, setting), шушка, люспа (husk, scale, shell, shuck, squama), бояджийска люлка. (various references) | |
Chinese | 片 (a slice, disc, piece, sheet, slice, thin), 剥落 (Decrepit, Flaking). (various references) | |
Czech | vloèka, plátek (cut, lamina, sheet, slice, strip). (various references) | |
Danish | Flocken (flacky crack, hair internal crack, hair line crack, lemon spot, shatter crack, snowflake, thermal burst), flaget (lamellar), flage (slab, squama), stenfyld (gravel, rubble, spall), sne (snow), skive (dial, disc, record), pluk, grus (concrement, concretion, gravel, rubble, spall), gråhaj (soupfin shark, tope, tope shark), glassyge. (various references) | |
Dutch | vlok (flacky crack, floc, flock, hair internal crack, hair line crack, snowflake), uitpuilende dubbeling, snipper, sneeuw (snow), schilfer (scale), ruwe haai (soupfin shark, tope, tope shark), open dubbeling, lijntje (rope), gesteenteslag (gravel, rubble, spall), coke (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), autoklaas (gravel, rubble, spall). (various references) | |
Esperanto | disskvamiĝi (flake off, peel off), deskvamiĝi (flake off, peel off, scale off). (various references) | |
Finnish | liuske (schist), kivijätteet (gravel, rubble, spall), kivensiru (gravel, rubble, spall), irtoama, hiutaleet (chips), hiutale (floc, floccule), hile, harmaahai (soupfin shark, tope, tope shark). (various references) | |
French | flocon (fleece), paillette. (various references) | |
German | Flocke (ball of lint, blob of foam, piece of wool, scale, speck), schuppe (scale). (various references) | |
Greek | νιφάδα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לפורר (crumble, granulate, rice, shatter, undermine), להתקלף (shell), לנשור בפתיתים, שבב (chip, sliver, splinter), פתית (crumb, floccule), רסיס (chip, drop, fragment, sliver, splinter). (various references) | |
Hungarian | függőkosár, pihe (fluff, floss, flue), hópehely (snowflake), hópihe (snowflake), kovácsreve (hammer-scale), lehámoz (to hull, to husk), lemez (plate, disc, slab), lemezke, pehely (floss, fluff, floccule, fuzz, plume), vékony réteg (film), pikkely (scale), réteg (coat, layer, strata), repedés (chop, fissure, flaw, tear), szárítóállvány (drainboard), szikra (scintilla, spark, sparkle), sziporka (spark), levakar (to flesh, to scrape). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sisi (side). (various references) | |
Italian | fiocco (flock, tuft). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 薄片 , フルマ鴎 (a frame, flare, flare skirt, flavor, frame buffer, frame in, frame out, framer, frame-up, framework, full range, full-length, hurray, Pacific fulmar, phrase), 剥片 (chip), 一片 (a piece, a slice, petal), 一枚 (one sheet, one thin flat object, petal). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フレーク , ひとひら (petal), はくへん (chip). (various references) | |
Manx | scaailley (scale), scaaillaghey (exfoliation), lhiannaghey (flatten, laminate, lamination, mangle, mangling, press), lhiannag (husk, lamella), jannoo lhiannagyn jeh, jannoo floagyn, floag (dot, jot, mote, particle). (various references) | |
Norwegian | fnugg, flak. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | akeflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | floco (flock). (various references) | |
Romanian | se desface în straturi, cãdea sub formã de fulgi, acoperi cu fulgi. (various references) | |
Russian | хлопья (flakes), падать хлопьями. (various references) | |
Scottish | peurda (flake of wool off the cards in the first carding), cléit (downy feather, flake of snow). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pahuljica (down, fuze, snowflake), padati s nogu, ljuštiti se (exfoliate), krljušt (scale, sherd, squama). (various references) | |
Spanish | copo (tuft), hojuela (leaflet), escama (scale, squama). (various references) | |
Swedish | flaga (scale, shed flakes), flinga. (various references) | |
Thai | ชิ้นย่อยที่แตกออกมา, หลุดลอกออกมาเป็นแผ่นๆ. (various references) | |
Turkish | yolmak (pick, pluck, pull, Rive, tear), tanecik (fleck, grain, granule, particle), pul pul ayırmak, pul (lamella, lamina, rove, scale, scutcheon, sequin, Spangle, squama, stamp, tinsel, trichome, washer), lapa lapa yağmak, kuşbaşı parça, kar taneciği (fleck of snow, snowflake), ince parça, balık pulu (scale, squama), acayip tip (duck, eccentric, odd fellow, odd fish, queer fish). (various references) | |
Turkmen | soяulmak (flake (skin), shed hair). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розшаровувати, шар (bed, layer, ply, slice, stratum, thickness), лупитися (exfoliate), локон (curl), пушинка, падати пушинками. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | giàn. (various references) | |
Welsh | caenen (film, layer). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Eugaleus galeus, Galeorhinus galeus, Galeus canis, Galeus vulgaris. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flake": flaked, flaker, flakers, flakes, flakey. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "flake": snowflake. (additional references) | |
Words containing "flake": cornflakes, snowflakes. (additional references) | |
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"Flake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Afilaka, Clake, elake, faka, fakel, fakie, fakle, falaka, falken, falko, Feleke, Fialka, flac, flaca, flade, flae, flage, flakey, flako, flale, flane, flanke, flape, flase, flawe, flaxe, flaye, flece, fleek, flice, frake, Fylke, ilake, ilako. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flake" (pronounced flā"k) |
| 3 | -l ā" k | lake. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-k-l" | |
-1 letter: alef, fake, feal, flak, flea, kale, lake, leaf, leak. | |
-2 letters: ale, elf, elk, kae, kaf, kea, kef, lea, lek. | |
-3 letters: ae, al, ef, el, fa, ka, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-k-l" | |
+1 letter: flaked, flaker, flakes, flakey. | |
+2 letters: fanlike, fatlike, flacked, flakers, flakier, flanked, flanken, flanker, flasket, wakeful. | |
+3 letters: calflike, fanglike, faunlike, fawnlike, flackery, flakiest, flankens, flankers, flaskets, foamlike, folktale, freakily, halfbeak, kalewife, kalifate, leaflike, talkfest, waiflike. | |
+4 letters: backfield, basketful, blackface, dwarflike, fairylike, falsework, filmmaker, flakiness, folktales, frankable, halfbeaks, kalifates, lakefront, leafstalk, leakproof, sheaflike, snowflake, talkfests, wakefully. | |
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