| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Being fragmented.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being polished. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being heated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being bladed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being tufted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being veiled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being layered or seamed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being crested. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being legged or pronged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Being slubbed or knobbed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb | 1. Of Flake.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb flake.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (flake) | 1. Form into flakes; "The substances started to flake".[Wordnet]. 2. Cover with flakes or as if with flakes.[Wordnet]. 3. Come off in flakes or thin small pieces.[Wordnet]. 4. To form into flakes.[Websters]. 5. To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: flaking, flaked, flakes, flaker, flakers, flakingly and flakedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FLAKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Specialty Definition: flake
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A small collection of snow, as it falls from the clouds or from the air; a little bunch or cluster of snowy crystals, such as fall in still moderate weather. This is a flake, lock or flock of snow.. | 2: [Noun] A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, on which cod-fish is dried.. | 3: [Noun] A layer or stratum; as a flake of flesh or tallow. Job. 41.. | 4: [Noun] A collection or little particle of fire, or of combustible matter on fire, separated and flying off.. | 5: [Noun] Any scaly matter in layers; any mass cleaving off in scales. Little flakes of scurf.. | 6: [Noun] A sort of carnations of two colors only, having large stripes going through the leaves. White-flake, in painting, is lead corroded by means of the pressing of grapes, or a ceruse prepared by the acid of grapes. It is brought from Italy, and of a quality superior to common white lead. It is used in oil and varnished painting, when a clean white is required.. | 7: [Verb] To form into flakes.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Environment | Chopped up pieces of recycled plastic bottles. These tiny pieces are melted and formed into pellets, which are stretched into long fibers like thread and woven into fabric for clothing. (references) | ||
| Food & Agriculture | Fragments of flesh the initial muscle structure of which is maintained and which are of heterogeneous size. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Health | Cocaine. (references) | ||
| Metallurgy | 1: 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) | 2: Fine fissures found lying in all directions in the interior of steel forgings. Source: European Union. (references) | 3: Internal fissure in ferrous metal. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Etymology 1] (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone. He said he'd come and help, but he flaked. (references) | 2: [Etymology 1] (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through. He said he'd come and help, but he flaked. (references) | 3: [Etymology 1] (informal) A person who is flighty, unreliable or impractical. She makes pleasant conversation, but she's kind of a flake when it comes time for action. The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment. (references) | 4: [Etymology 1] (technical) To store an item such as rope in layers The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment. (references) | 5: [Etymology 1] 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. The paint flaked off after only a year. (references) | 6: [Etymology 1] To break or chip off in a flake. The paint flaked off after only a year. (references) | 7: [Etymology 2] (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark. (references) |
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Common Expressions: flake
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| 99 Flake | A 99 Flake is an ice cream cone with a Cadbury Flake chocolate bar inserted in it, typically at a 45-degree angle. (references) | ||
| Bran flake | Wheat flake including the bran. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Corn flake | Crisp flake made from corn. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Fish flake | A fish flake is a platform built on poles and spread with boughs for drying cod-fish on the foreshore of fishing villages and small towns in rural Newfoundland, Canada. Spelling variations for fish flake in Newfoundland include flek, fleyke, fleake, flaik and fleack. Its first recorded use in connection with fishing appeared in Richard Whitbourne's book Newfoundland (1623, p. 57). (references) | ||
| Flake (brand) | Cadbury's Flake is a bar of flaked and rolled milk chocolate produced in Australia and the U.K. by Cadbury-Schweppes. (references) | ||
| Flake food | Flake food is a type of fish food consumed by a wide variety of tropical and saltwater fish and invertebrates. (references) | ||
| Flake off | Come off in flakes or thin small pieces. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Flake out | Change from a waking to a sleeping state. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Flake stand | The cooling tub or vessel of a still worm. --Knight. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Floyd H. Flake | Reverend Dr. Floyd H. Flake (born January 30, 1945 in Los Angeles) is an American politician (Democrat) and former member of the House of Representatives, as well as the senior pastor of the 10,000 member Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Jamaica, Queens, New York. (references) | ||
| Gold Flake | Goldflake is a widely sold cigarette brand in India. It is manufactured by ITC India. It is sold in three varieties including Goldflake kings (84mm), Goldflake Lights and Goldflake (small). The brand name "goldflake" refers to cigarettes made using bright golden colored tobacco. (references) | ||
| Hikari flake | Hikari flake is a popular brand of flake-style fish food, available for coldwater, freshwater and saltwater fish. It is known for providing a balanced diet for most fish, particularly tropical, and thus is a good staple diet for fish. However, it is good to supplement it with other protein rich foods such as bloodworm or brine shrimp. (references) | ||
| Jeff Flake | Jeff Flake (born December 31 1962), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing the 6th District of Arizona ([http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/az06_109.gif map]). He was born in Snowflake, Arizona, was educated at Brigham Young University and was a Mormon missionary, Executive Director of the Foundation for Democracy in Namibia, and Executive Director of the Goldwater Institute before entering the House. (references) | ||
| Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake | Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake is a concept album by the British rock band The Small Faces. The title is a parody of an actual brand of tobacco, Ogdens' Nut-brown Flake. (references) | ||
| William J. Flake | William Jordan Flake (July 3 1839 - 1932) was a prominent member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, imprisoned for polygamy. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: flake
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Big flake | Health | Cocaine. (references) | |
| Crystalline flake graphite | Mining | See:flake graphite. (references) | |
| Flake copper | Mining | Very thin scales of native copper. (references) | |
| Flake drier | Occupations | Tends equipment and machinery that converts viscous soap into flakes and removes excess moisture from flakes: Turns valves to admit refrigerated water into rollers to chill them to specified temperature to harden soap. Opens valve to allow viscous soap to flow from crutcher machine into chamber equipped with chilling rollers. Starts rollers to press soap into sheets. Adjusts flaking knives that cut sheets of soap into flakes. Turns valve to regulate flow of flakes into drier. Turns valves to admit steam to drying cylinders and oven jackets to heat drier to specified temperature. Removes sample of dried flakes and tests for moisture content, using moisture testing apparatus. Adjusts temperatures accordingly. Opens valve to discharge dried flakes onto conveyor belt leading to storage bins. May sharpen flaking knives, using hand file. May tend equipment to convert liquid insecticide into flakes and be designated Flaker Operator (chemical). (references) | |
| Flake graphite | Mining | Graphite disseminated in metamorphic rock as thin, visible flakes that are separable from the rock by mechanical means. Syn: crystalline flake graphite. (references) | |
| Flake mica | Mining | Finely divided mica recovered from mica and sericite schist and as a byproduct of feldspar and kaolin beneficiation. See also:scrap mica. (references) | |
| Flake miller, wheat and oats | Occupations | Operates drier, huller, separator, steel cutter, cooker, and flake roller machines to produce wheat and oats flakes, according to specifications: Adjusts slides in chutes and turns valves to regulate flow of grain to machines. Adjusts flow of air to dry grain and feels grain to determine hulling capability. Observes hulling process and adjusts speed of machines that remove and separate hulls from oats. Turns valves to regulate temperature and moisture in cooker, and adjusts tension on flaking-machine rolls, according to hardness and size of grain. (references) | |
| Flake sulfur | Mining | Pyrite occurring as thin flakes on the natural cleavage surfaces of coal that floats readily on the surface of the wash water in the washing process. Syn: float sulfur. (references) | |
| Flake white | Mining | A name sometimes given to pure white lead. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: flake | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Flake | 30 | 99 Flake | 8 | |
| Jeff Flake | 27 | Bann flake | 3 | |
| Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake | 21 | Fish flake | 11 | |
| Flake (KDE) | 13 | Flake | 30 | |
| Floyd H. Flake | 11 | Flake (chocolate) | 9 | |
| Lithic flake | 11 | Flake (fish) | 4 | |
| Fish flake | 11 | Flake (KDE) | 13 | |
| Flake (chocolate) | 9 | Flake point | 2 | |
| 99 Flake | 8 | Flake tool | 2 | |
| Gold Flake | 8 | Floyd H. Flake | 11 | |
| William J. Flake | 5 | Gary William Flake | 4 | |
| Flake (fish) | 4 | Gold Flake | 8 | |
| Gary William Flake | 4 | Handaxe thinning flake | 2 | |
| Sharon G. Flake | 3 | Jake Flake | 3 | |
| Bann flake | 3 | Jeff Flake | 27 | |
| Jake Flake | 3 | Lithic flake | 11 | |
| Tranchet flake | 2 | Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake | 21 | |
| Flake tool | 2 | Sharon G. Flake | 3 | |
| Flake point | 2 | Tranchet flake | 2 | |
| Handaxe thinning flake | 2 | William J. Flake | 5 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
