单词 | flake |
释义 | flake1/fleɪk /noun 1A small, flat, very thin piece of something, typically one which has broken away or been peeled off from a larger piece: he licked the flakes of croissant off his finger...
Synonyms sliver, wafer, shaving, paring, peeling; chip, shard, scale, crumb, grain, speck, spillikin; fragment, scrap, shred, bit, particle; Scottish skelf technical spall, lamina 1.1A snowflake: the snow was coming down in thick flakes...
1.2 Archaeology A piece of hard stone chipped off for use as a tool by prehistoric humans: [as modifier]: flake tools...
1.3 [mass noun] Thin pieces of crushed, dried food or bait for fish.I decided to use a nice piece of bread flake as hook bait....
2North American informal A crazy or eccentric person.So, do you now blame your loss on these crazies and flakes? verb 1 [no object] Come or fall away from a surface in flakes: the paint had been flaking off for years...
1.1Lose small fragments from the surface: my nails have started to flake at the ends 2 [with object] Separate (food) into flakes or thin pieces: (as adjective flaked) flaked almonds...
2.1 [no object] (Of food) come apart in flakes or thin pieces: cook until the fish flakes easily...
OriginMiddle English: the immediate source is unknown, the senses perhaps deriving from different words; probably of Germanic origin and related to flag2 and flaw1. Rhymesflake2/fleɪk /noun A rack or shelf for storing or drying food such as fish. OriginMiddle English (denoting a wicker hurdle): perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Old Norse flaki, fleki 'wicker shield' and Danish flage 'hurdle'. flake3/fleɪk /verb [no object] (flake out) informal Fall asleep; drop from exhaustion: he got back in time to flake out until morning...
Synonyms fall asleep, go to sleep, drop off; collapse, drop, keel over; faint, pass out, lose consciousness, black out informal conk out, go out, go out like a light, nod off North American informal sack out, zone out literary swoon OriginLate 15th century (in the senses 'become languid' and (of a garment) 'fall in folds'): variant of obsolete flack and the verb flag4. The current sense dates from the 1940s. flake4/fleɪk /(also fake /feɪk/) Nautical noun A single turn of a coiled rope or hawser. verb [with object] 1Lay (a rope) in loose coils in order to prevent it tangling: a cable had to be flaked out 1.1Lay (a sail) down in folds either side of the boom.Going to the mizzen boom he undid the badly fastened ties, raised the sail and lowered it, flaking it neatly as it came down. OriginEarly 17th century (as a noun): of unknown origin; compare with German Flechte in the same sense. |
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