flake

Reikšmė (Anglų k.)

Noun

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.

Verb

1. To break or chip off in a flake.
2. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
3. To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
4. (slang) To hit (another person).
5. (slang) To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
6. To lay out on a flake for drying.

Sinonimai

chip

bit

slice

piece

fragment

scale

fleck

snowflake

❄️

peel

scrap

lump

part

flake off

chunk

peel off

portion

small piece

drop

eccentric person

oddball

eccentric

exfoliate

flock

geek

lamella

layer

peeling

shell

🐚

skin

wafer

fold

foliated

film

📽️

nurse-hound

grain

hound

husk

tope oil shark

lamina

tope school shark

layered

leaf

eye

👁️

nurse

dust

pane of glass

pare

dogfish

tope soupfin shark

desquamate

petal

crumb

plait

plate

pod

crisp

covering

chip off

screwball

section

segment

shaving

sheet

mhewu also occurs

shuck

white flake

slate

character

slide

slip

cereal

snake

🐍

case

splint

splinter

stratum

strip

tablet

tabular

take a nap

tope

turning

type

unreliable

flake film

descale

fisheye

fish eye

nursehound

schistose

tope shark

blister

schistic

slabby

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

flaking

flaky

flakiness

floc

larger spotted dogfish

floe

fluff

flurry

Tariamas kaip (IPA)

/fleɪk/

Etimologija (Anglų k.)

Paveldėta iš Vidurio Anglijos: flake

Paveldėta iš senoji anglų: flacca

Sutampa su senoji norsų: flakna

Sutampa su norvegų: flak

Sutampa su švedų: flak

Sutampa su danų: flage

Sutampa su vokiečių: Flocke

Sutampa su olandų: vlak

Sutampa su lotynų: plaga

Sutampa su valų: llech

In summary

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.