flake

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Clinging to a colder zone Whose dark sky sheds the snow-flake down, The snow-flake is her banner's star, Her stripes the boreal streamers are.

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  1. noun A flat thin piece or layer; a chip.
  2. noun Archaeology A stone fragment removed from a core or from another flake by percussion or pressure, serving as a preform or as a tool or blade itself.
  3. noun A small piece; a bit.
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  • The product is shipped out as soon as it is completed The nickel flake, which is Edison's ingenious solution of the conductivity problem, is of itself a most interesting product, intensely practical in its application and fascinating in its manufacture. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • So Mayer'd just taken the freshie up to her dorm room for a quick pop or a quicker line or two of flake, and he'd be back in a few minutes, and I might actually get paid. —  Futures Imperfect
  • And without the inspiration of Clifford W. Ashley ;s wonderful 1944 work, The Ashley Book of Knots, which I had the good fortune to find at a yard sale for a quarter, this book would have remained just the thread of an idea THE SHIPPING NEWS 1 Quoyle Quoyle: A coil of rope A Flemish flake is a spiral coil of one layer only. —  The Shipping News
  • I was always the flake, and Mary Lou was always the underachiever. —  Four To Score
  • Beside her face and the base changed to milky color w / snow flake, there aren't any differen't from the original one. —  Anime Nano!
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

chunk ·  shard ·  speck ·  bit ·  streak ·  particle ·  patch ·  slab ·  wisp ·  swirl ·  crust ·  fragment

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flake:   flakes

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  1. Middle English; see plāk-1 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English fleke, from Old Norse fleki, hurdle, shield used for defense in battle; see plāk-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English flake, a flake (of snow, etc.), of Scandinavian origin: from Norwegian flak, a slice, a piece, as of ice, torn off, an ice-floe, = Swedish dial. flag, flak, a thin slice, Swedish flaga, a flake, flaw, crack, = Danish flage, flake (sneflage, snow-flake); cf. Icelandic flagna, flake off, split, = Norwegian Swedish flagna, peel off: see flag, flaw, flay.
  2. from flake, n.
  3. Also written flaik, fleak; from Middle English flake, fleke, fleyke, a hurdle, from Icelandic flaki, also fleki, a hurdle, especially a shield of wickerwork used for defense in battle, = Old Danish flage = Middle Dutch vlaeck, Dutch vlaak, a hurdle (vlaken, beat wool on a hurdle), = Middle Low German vlake, Low German flake, fläke, a hurdle.
 

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