| flake | | |
| n. (phenomenon) | 1. flake, snowflake | a crystal of snow. |
| ~ snow, snowfall | precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals. |
| ~ h2o, water | binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent. |
| ~ crystal | a solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure. |
| ~ snow | a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground. |
| n. (person) | 2. eccentric, eccentric person, flake, geek, oddball | a person with an unusual or odd personality. |
| ~ unusual person, anomaly | a person who is unusual. |
| ~ crackpot, fruitcake, nut case, screwball, crank, nut | a whimsically eccentric person. |
| ~ nutter, wacko, whacko | a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad. |
| n. (object) | 3. bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap | a small fragment of something broken off from the whole.; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye" |
| ~ fragment | a piece broken off or cut off of something else.; "a fragment of rock" |
| ~ matchwood | fragments of wood.; "it was smashed into matchwood" |
| ~ exfoliation, scurf, scale | a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin. |
| ~ scurf | (botany) a covering that resembles scales or bran that covers some plant parts. |
| ~ sliver, splinter | a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal.; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it broke into slivers" |
| v. (contact) | 4. flake | form into flakes.; "The substances started to flake" |
| ~ form | assume a form or shape.; "the water formed little beads" |
| v. (contact) | 5. flake | cover with flakes or as if with flakes. |
| ~ cover | provide with a covering or cause to be covered.; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers" |
| v. (contact) | 6. flake, flake off, peel, peel off | come off in flakes or thin small pieces.; "The paint in my house is peeling off" |
| ~ chip, chip off, break away, break off, come off | break off (a piece from a whole).; "Her tooth chipped" |
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