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noun leɪkleɪk 1A large area of water surrounded by land. boys were swimming in the lake Example sentencesExamples - Logging enterprises have destroyed traditional maple sugar camps, and fish caught in freshwater lakes are contaminated with mercury.
- A lone tree sat dejectedly atop a small hill, overlooking a small lake that reflected the clouded sky above.
- The inland lake is filled with seawater each day, and stocked with marine fish.
- Crocodiles and flamingoes can often be seen in and around the shallow lakes and pools on the islands.
- There are no federal environmental or health standards for arsenic or copper in lake sediments.
- The rocks are glacial lake beds of dark gray silt, clay, and peat.
- As April arrived the lake water level rose by a couple of feet after a sustained period of rain.
- The following day, I got up early to fish the carp lake.
- The surrounding area has a man-made lake, surrounded by huge boathouses and houses.
- Sunday afternoon found us trying out, with some success, the small trout lake situated just behind the bungalow.
- The project would involve creating a huge artificial lake and sifting out the mineral.
- The section around Lake Baikal, the largest freshwater lake in the world, had not been built.
- Through the trees however, the sparkle of a large, man-made lake was visible.
- The lake sturgeon does not appear to present any negative attributes concerning the environment or humans.
- Instead, the most recommended fish are salmon, common mackerel and lake trout.
- They set up camp at Rwanda's main airport, surrounded by rolling hills and turquoise mountain lakes.
- Ospreys live near rivers, estuaries, salt marshes, lakes, reservoirs, and other large bodies of water.
- The circumstances under which the fish reached the crater lakes have been a subject of speculation for many years.
- The nearby crater lake, Pavin, is visited by over 200,000 people each year.
- I mean, they live basically off the fishing from the world's second largest freshwater lake.
Synonyms pond, pool, tarn, reservoir, lagoon, waterhole, inland sea, swim Scottish loch, lochan Anglo-Irish lough North American bayou, pothole (lake) New Zealand moana Indian sagar literary mere - 1.1 The Lake District.
Example sentencesExamples - So if you're looking for a house in the Lakes to celebrate a 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th or even 70th birthday Boston House is the ideal choice.
- I am looking at house in the Lakes of Country Place.
- 1.2 A pool of liquid.
the fish was served in a lake of spicy sauce Example sentencesExamples - Outside the concrete and brick building, people gingerly walked around small lakes of blood that pooled on the street.
- Set slid to the ground without a sound, blood pooling around him and forming a shallow lake of red liquid.
- Pictures and spectral data taken on the way down show a terrain made of ice ridges and hills, cut through by drainage channels, rivers and lakes of liquid methane.
- It includes some 300 oil lakes that still, more than a decade later, lie on the land, the result of the Iraqis having set fire to some 700 oil wells in Kuwait.
- In particular, there is no conclusive evidence yet to either confirm or deny the presence of the putative lakes of liquid ethane on Titan's surface.
- Some researchers suspect that lakes of liquid ethane, or even a moon-girdling ocean of ethane, methane, and propane, may exist on Titan.
- A poached pear dessert on a delicious fluff of ricotta and mascarpone cheeses runs afoul in a lake of bullying raspberry sauce.
- A dark patch on the surface of Titan, moon of Saturn, might be a lake filled with liquid hydrocarbons, astronomers have said.
- The prospect of China's consuming ever growing lakes of oil has been noted over the years, although it is gaining new urgency as Chinese consumption continues to soar.
- Finally, the mega-slums of Asia, Africa and Latin America are like so many lakes of petrol awaiting the spark of H5N1.
- Can you imagine being chased across a lake of petrol by a grinning madman with a cigarette lighter?
- No one knows if liquid chemical lakes exist on the surface of Titan.
- After all, the subterranean lakes of oil beneath Iraq contain thousands of millions of barrels so there is plenty for everybody.
- 1.3with modifier A large surplus of a liquid commodity.
Example sentencesExamples - The system led to vast overproduction and the creation of so-called butter mountains and wine lakes.
- The European Union authorities have been keen to promote its use in place of sugar as a way of helping reduce the European wine lake.
- The grape spirit market was in decline, too, so the EC wine lake was overflowing.
- The story is all the more remarkable when you take into account the size of Europe's wine lake and the stiff competition in today's crushingly crowded fine wine market.
- I must visit the picturesque European wine lake region some time.
- With its directives on the correct shape of fruit, production quotas, wine lakes and butter mountains the EU is baffling at the best of times.
- Critics say it has resulted in the grotesque and immoral destruction of produce - those wine lakes and butter mountains - to keep prices artificially high.
- On the Continent the removal of the grain mountains and wine lakes is taken as meaning the system is working.
Derivatives noun ˈleɪklətˈleɪklət This beautiful lakelet is atop a picturesque mountain and offers a panoramic view of Poonch.
Origin Late Old English (denoting a pond or pool), from Old French lac, from Latin lacus 'basin, pool, lake'. A lake was once a pond or pool: it is from Old French lac, from Latin lacus ‘basin, pool, lake’. A small lacus was a lacuna, which became laguna in Spanish and Italian, and became lagoon (early 17th century) in English.
Rhymes ache, awake, bake, betake, Blake, brake, break, cake, crake, drake, fake, flake, forsake, hake, Jake, make, mistake, opaque, partake, quake, rake, sake, shake, sheikh, slake, snake, splake, stake, steak, strake, take, undertake, wake, wideawake noun leɪkleɪk 1mass noun, often with modifier An insoluble pigment made by combining a soluble organic dye and an insoluble mordant. Example sentencesExamples - This mordant reacts with the dye alizarin to form a red lake, exactly as it does in a test tube in the typical analytical test for aluminum.
- The inclusion of azurite blue and lake glazes indicates that this was a sophisticated and expensive colour scheme.
- Burnt umber, terre verte, red ochre, red lake and burnt sienna were identified in several places.
- 1.1 A purplish-red pigment made in the same way as lake, originally one obtained from lac.
Example sentencesExamples - Then she picked up a handful of lake and gave it to me.
Origin Early 17th century: variant of lac1. nounlākleɪk 1A large body of water surrounded by land. boys were swimming in the lake Example sentencesExamples - Crocodiles and flamingoes can often be seen in and around the shallow lakes and pools on the islands.
- The section around Lake Baikal, the largest freshwater lake in the world, had not been built.
- Logging enterprises have destroyed traditional maple sugar camps, and fish caught in freshwater lakes are contaminated with mercury.
- They set up camp at Rwanda's main airport, surrounded by rolling hills and turquoise mountain lakes.
- The inland lake is filled with seawater each day, and stocked with marine fish.
- I mean, they live basically off the fishing from the world's second largest freshwater lake.
- As April arrived the lake water level rose by a couple of feet after a sustained period of rain.
- Instead, the most recommended fish are salmon, common mackerel and lake trout.
- Ospreys live near rivers, estuaries, salt marshes, lakes, reservoirs, and other large bodies of water.
- The circumstances under which the fish reached the crater lakes have been a subject of speculation for many years.
- The project would involve creating a huge artificial lake and sifting out the mineral.
- The following day, I got up early to fish the carp lake.
- A lone tree sat dejectedly atop a small hill, overlooking a small lake that reflected the clouded sky above.
- The surrounding area has a man-made lake, surrounded by huge boathouses and houses.
- The rocks are glacial lake beds of dark gray silt, clay, and peat.
- The lake sturgeon does not appear to present any negative attributes concerning the environment or humans.
- Through the trees however, the sparkle of a large, man-made lake was visible.
- There are no federal environmental or health standards for arsenic or copper in lake sediments.
- Sunday afternoon found us trying out, with some success, the small trout lake situated just behind the bungalow.
- The nearby crater lake, Pavin, is visited by over 200,000 people each year.
Synonyms pond, pool, tarn, reservoir, lagoon, waterhole, inland sea, swim - 1.1 A pool of liquid.
the fish was served in a bright lake of spicy carrot sauce Example sentencesExamples - A dark patch on the surface of Titan, moon of Saturn, might be a lake filled with liquid hydrocarbons, astronomers have said.
- A poached pear dessert on a delicious fluff of ricotta and mascarpone cheeses runs afoul in a lake of bullying raspberry sauce.
- Some researchers suspect that lakes of liquid ethane, or even a moon-girdling ocean of ethane, methane, and propane, may exist on Titan.
- It includes some 300 oil lakes that still, more than a decade later, lie on the land, the result of the Iraqis having set fire to some 700 oil wells in Kuwait.
- Pictures and spectral data taken on the way down show a terrain made of ice ridges and hills, cut through by drainage channels, rivers and lakes of liquid methane.
- Set slid to the ground without a sound, blood pooling around him and forming a shallow lake of red liquid.
- No one knows if liquid chemical lakes exist on the surface of Titan.
- In particular, there is no conclusive evidence yet to either confirm or deny the presence of the putative lakes of liquid ethane on Titan's surface.
- Outside the concrete and brick building, people gingerly walked around small lakes of blood that pooled on the street.
- Finally, the mega-slums of Asia, Africa and Latin America are like so many lakes of petrol awaiting the spark of H5N1.
- After all, the subterranean lakes of oil beneath Iraq contain thousands of millions of barrels so there is plenty for everybody.
- Can you imagine being chased across a lake of petrol by a grinning madman with a cigarette lighter?
- The prospect of China's consuming ever growing lakes of oil has been noted over the years, although it is gaining new urgency as Chinese consumption continues to soar.
Origin Late Old English (denoting a pond or pool), from Old French lac, from Latin lacus ‘basin, pool, lake’. nounlākleɪk 1often with modifier An insoluble pigment made by combining a soluble organic dye and an insoluble mordant. Example sentencesExamples - Burnt umber, terre verte, red ochre, red lake and burnt sienna were identified in several places.
- This mordant reacts with the dye alizarin to form a red lake, exactly as it does in a test tube in the typical analytical test for aluminum.
- The inclusion of azurite blue and lake glazes indicates that this was a sophisticated and expensive colour scheme.
- 1.1 A purplish-red pigment made the same way as lake, used in dyes, inks, and paints and originally made with lac.
Example sentencesExamples - Then she picked up a handful of lake and gave it to me.
Origin Early 17th century: variant of lac. |