From en.wiktionary.org:
[Flake]
** English
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*** Pronunciation
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*** Etymology 1
From [en], from [en] and/or [en] (compare [non]), from [en], from [en].
Cognate with [no], [sv], [da], [de], [nl] and [nl], as well as with [la] and
[cy]. [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1971 | author=w:Leonard Cohen | title=w:Famous Blue Raincoat
|passage=And you treated my woman to a FLAKE of your life. And when she came
back she was nobody's wife.}}
1. A scale of a fish or similar animal
2. [en] A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
3. [en] A person who is impractical , flighty , unreliable , or inconsistent ; especially with maintaining a living .
4. * [en]
5. A carnation with only two colours in the flower , the petal s having large stripes.
6. A flat turn or tier of rope .
7. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1634 | author=Nathaniel Boteler | title=Boteler's Dialogues
|passage=Admiral: What mean you by FLAKES?<br>Captain: They are only those
several circles or rounds of the roapes or cables, that are quoiled up
round.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1944 | author= 吴语: Clifford Warren Ashley | title=w:The Ashley Book of Knots | pages=516–517 | publisher=Doubleday
|passage=A FLAKE is the sailor's term for a turn in an ordinary coil, or for a
complete tier in a flat coil, as a French or _Flemish flake_. The current
dictionary form of the word is _fake_, a word that I have never heard used
with this meaning.<br>A Flemish flake is a spiral coil of one layer only.}}
1. [en] A corrupt arrest , e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1973 | author=Knapp Commission; New York | title=The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption | page=83
|passage=When police decided to score gamblers, they would most often flake
people with gambling slips, then demand $25 or $50 for not arresting them.
Other times, they would simply threaten a FLAKE and demand money.}}
1. A wire rack for drying fish.
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|antiflake |branflake |bread flake |cornflake |flakable |flakage
|flakeboard |Flakegate |flakeless |flakelet |flakelike |flakeproof |flaker
|flake salt |flake white |flaky |microflake |nanoflake |oatflake |pentaflake
|rye flake |snowflake |soap flake |soapflake |sootflake |wheatflake }}
***** Translations
[thin chiplike layer]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el] , [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] [of snow]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [snow]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[archaeology: thin stone tool]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Dutch: [nl]
- French: [fr]
- Italian: [it]
- Maori: [mi]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc]
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Spanish: [es]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[an unreliable person]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn] , [scn] , [scn]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [colloquial] , [es] [colloquial]
[trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To break or chip off in a flake.
2. [en] To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert , to fail to follow through .
3. [en] To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
4. [en] To hit (another person).
5. [en] To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest .
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1973 | author=Knapp Commission; New York | title=The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption | page=83
|passage=When police decided to score gamblers, they would most often FLAKE
people with gambling slips, then demand $25 or $50 for not arresting them.
Other times, they would simply threaten a flake and demand money.}}
1. To lay out on a flake for drying.
***** Derived terms
- [en]
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***** Translations
[to break or chip]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Maori: [mi] [refers to preparing stone surfaces]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow
through]
- Dutch: niet komen [nl] , (iemand) [nl]
- French: [fr] (quelqu'un)
- Italian: [it]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es] [transitive] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [transitive] , [es] [transitive]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
A name given to dogfish to improve its marketability as a food, perhaps from
etymology 1.
**** Noun
[-]
1. [en] Dogfish .
2. [en] The meat of the gummy shark .
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1999 | author=R. Shotton | publisher=w:Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | title=Case studies of the management of elasmobranch fisheries | section=Part 1, page 746 (see http://books.google.com.au/books?id=71EbAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Flake%22+shark+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22Flake%22+shark+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=a9hQT7TQHqnNmAXZz_SWCg&redir_esc=y)
|passage=Larger shark received about 10%/kg less than those in the 4-6 kg
range. Most of the Victorian landed product is wholesaled as carcasses on the
Melbourne Fish Market where it is sold to fish and chip shops, the retail
sector and through restaurants as ‘ FLAKE’.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2002 | author= [Alex Miller (writer)] | title=Journey to the Stone Country | publisher=Allen & Unwin | year_published=2003 | page=72
|passage=Susan said, ‘Get me a piece of FLAKE and a serve of chips.’}}
1. * [en]
*** Etymology 3
Compare [is], [is], [da], [nl].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A paling ; a hurdle .
2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchion s, for drying codfish and other things.
3. * [en]
4. [en] A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calk ing, etc.
5. [en] [en] .
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1898 | author=Frank T. Bullen | title=The Cruise of the Cachalot: The Story of a New Bedford Whaler
|passage= FLAKE after flake ran out of the tubs, until we were compelled to
hand the end of our line to the second mate to splice his own on to.}}
*** References
- [R:Webster 1913]
*** Anagrams
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