flake

Significat (anglès)

1. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
2. A scale of a fish or similar animal
3. A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
4. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
5. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
6. A flat turn or tier of rope.
7. (slang) A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
8. A wire rack for drying fish.

chip

bit

small piece

eccentric person

nurse-hound

tope oil shark

tope school shark

pane of glass

tope soupfin shark

chip off

mhewu also occurs

white flake

flake film

tope shark

Penny’s dog

bull huss

eastern school shark

flake catfish

greate-spotted dogfish

scaly residue

descaling

greater spotted dogfish

hair crack

shatter crack

thin section

greyboy

greyshark

hundshai

large-spotted dogfish

larger spotted dogfish

floe

fluff

flurry

Freqüència

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/fleɪk/

From Middle English flake (“a flake of snow”), from Old English flacca and/or Old Norse flak (“loose or torn piece”) (compare Old Norse flakna (“to flake or chip”)), from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”). Cognate with Norwegian flak (“slice, sliver”, literally “piece torn off”), Swedish flak (“a thin slice”), Danish flage (“flake”), German Flocke (“flake”), Dutch vlak (“smooth surface, plain”) and vlok (“flake”), as well as with Latin plaga (“flat surface, district, region”) and Welsh llech (“slate, tablet”). Doublet of plage.