| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To chip, fragment, sliver or splinter.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle 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] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being sparkling, glittering or scintillating.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being gleaming. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being blazing or flaming. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being glowing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being foaming. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being raging. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being branching.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FLAKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FLAKING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Chemical Industry | Detachment of the film in the form of fragments of varying distribution and size usually as a result of the formation of cracks. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Metallurgy | 1: Breaking of small chips from refractory face, often allied with bursting. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Peeling of a skin as a result of corrosion, sometimes leaving the glass iridescent when dried. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Common Expressions: FLAKING
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Pressure flaking | In lithic reduction, pressure flaking is a method of trimming the edge of a stone tool by removing small lithic flakes by pressing on the stone with a sharp instrument rather than striking it with a percussor. This method, which often uses punches made from bone or antler tines (or, among modern hobbyists, copper punches or even nails) allows a greater method of fine control than even the most careful percussive flaking. Usually, the rough piece is held clasped in the flintknapper's hand, with a durable piece of fabric or leather protecting the flintknapper's palm from the sharpness of the flakes removed. The flintknapper places the tip of the flaking tool against the edge of the stone tool and presses hard, removing a small linear or lunate flake from the opposite side. In some instances, a hammer and punch is used while the tool is held down with a vice. The process also involves frequent preparation of the edge to form better platforms for pressing off the flakes, often using abraders made from a coarse-grained stone such as basalt or quartzite. Great care must be taken during this process, so that perverse fractures that break the entire tool do not occur. Occasionally, outrepasse breaks occur when the force propagates through across the tool in such a way that the entire opposite margin is removed, ruining the piece. (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). | ||||
