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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



... side and turn, I pray, On the lake below thy gentle eyes; The clouds hang over it, heavy and gray, And dark and silent the water lies; And out of that frozen mist the snow In wavering flakes begins to flow; Flake after flake They sink in the dark ...
— Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant - Household Edition • William Cullen Bryant
... said; "we have not seen a cloud, nor a drop of rain nor a flake of snow, nor a flash of lightning, nor heard ...
— City of Endless Night • Milo Hastings
... After a long, earnest, anxious gaze, he came to the conclusion that it was a sail which shone, white and conspicuous, like a speck or a snow-flake on the horizon. ...
— Jarwin and Cuffy • R.M. Ballantyne
... are dark 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
... from this final vision of his dream. "Inconstancy is not justified by natural law, for it means unripeness of soul. The ripe soul evolves the Infinite from a fixed point. It finds the many in the one. Elvire is the one who includes the many. Elvire is the ocean: while Fifine is but the foam-flake which the ocean can multiply at pleasure. Elvire shall henceforth ...
— A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) • Mrs. Sutherland Orr


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