1. Form into flakes
   "The substances started to flake" 
2. Cover with flakes or as if with flakes 
3. Come off in flakes or thin small pieces
   - peel off, peel, flake off

1. A crystal of snow
   - snowflake 
2. A person with an unusual or odd personality
   - eccentric, eccentric person, oddball, geek, dag [Austral, NZ] 
3. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole
   - bit, chip, fleck, scrap

Derived forms: flaking, flaked, flakes

See also: flaky

Type of: anomaly, break away, break off, chip, chip off, come off, cover, crystal, form, fragment, unusual person

Part of: snow, snowfall

Encyclopedia: Flake Flake, Ontario

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• autotropism
• autotype
• autotypic
• autotypy
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• autumn pumpkin
• autumn sneezeweed
• autumn-blooming
• autumn-flowering
• autumnal
• autumnal equinox
• autunite
• Auvergne
• auxesis
• auxetic
• auxiliary
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• auxiliary boiler
• auxiliary cell
• auxiliary engine
• auxiliary equipment
• auxiliary operation
• auxiliary pump