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单词 flaking
释义 I. flaking, ppl. a.|ˈfleɪkɪŋ|
[f. flake v.1 + -ing2.]
That flakes, in various senses of the vb.
1836Lytton Athens (1837) II. 561 The wild steeds..from their fiery breath..Scatter the flaking foam.1870Hooker Stud. Flora 115 Potentilla fruticosa..bark flaking.
II. flaking, vbl. n.|ˈfleɪkɪŋ|
[f. flake v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the vb.; the condition of being flaked or flecked; spec. an adventitious appearance of light flecks on animals. Also attrib.
1829G. Griffin Collegians xxxix. 184 I'm only sorry I didn't give him a thing more..an' that was a good flaking.1841S. C. Hall Ireland II. 316 note, My back was sore with the flaking..Flake away, my jewil.1879Nature 18 Sept. 483/2 He [Mr. F. H. Cushing] accidentally discovered that small fragments could be broken off from a piece of flint with much greater..precision, by pressure with a pointed rod of bone or horn, than by blows with a hammer-stone..To this process Mr. Cushing gives the name of flaking, to distinguish it from chipping produced by percussion.1902W. Bateson et al. Rep. Evol. Comm. Roy. Soc. i. 47 Flower-colour of First Cross-bred Generation... In connection with the question of colour one point of interest may be briefly mentioned here, viz., the occurrence of ‘flaking’... Such flaking was recorded in thirty-one out of thirty-nine combinations in the first year.1904Goodchild & Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 224/1 Flaking, a defect in distemper in which the paint flakes off, owing to imperfect adhesion with the surface to which it is applied.1920Chambers's Jrnl. 591/2 The automatic carrier once more picks them up, to transfer them to the flaking-machine.1921Ibid. 173/2 The entire flint armoury of Philip Bentley, along with his fire-drills and flaking-tools.1954S. Piggott Neolithic Cultures x. 293 A small flaking-site at Stake Pass near the Langdale Pikes in Westmorland.
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