flake

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

flakes

1.
A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls.
flakes of dandruff
Đồng nghĩa: fleak
2.
A scale of a fish or similar animal
3.
(archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
4.
(informal)A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
She makes pleasant conversation, but she's kind of a flake when it comes time for action.
5.
A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
6.
A flat turn or tier of rope.
7.
(US, slang)(US, law enforcement, slang) A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
8.
A wire rack for drying fish.
9.
(UK, uncountable)Dogfish.
10.
(Australia, uncountable)The meat of the gummy shark.
11.
(UK, dialectal)(UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
12.
A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.

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verb

V_es/s

flakes

V_ing/Gerund

flaking

V_ed/pp

flaked

1.
To break or chip off in a flake.
The paint flaked off after only a year.
Đồng nghĩa: fleak
2.
(colloquial)To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
He said he'd come and help, but he flaked.
3.
(technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment.
4.
(Ireland, slang)To hit (another person).
5.
(US, slang)(US, law enforcement, slang) To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
6.
To lay out on a flake for drying.
flake a fish

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fleak deke feint

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English flake (a flake of snow), from Old English flacca and/or Old Norse flak (loose or torn piece) (compare flakna), from Proto-Germanic *flaką (something flat), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (flat, broad, plain). Cognate with flak, flak a thin slice, flage flake, Flocke flake, vlak and vlok (flake), as well as with plaga and llech. plage.