| 单词 | flake |
| 释义 | flake (once / 1280 pages) 1nv 2n 3n A flake is a tiny piece of something. A flake could be a tasty morsel like a croissant flake, or a not so tasty morsel — like a dandruff flake. Ewww. In some places, you can see flakes of mica, a shiny glimmering mineral, lining the banks of a pond or paths through the woods. There are also croissant flakes, dandruff flakes, and of course snow flakes, individual snow crystals. When something flakes, it comes off in tiny flecks: "The paint had started to flake off the kitchen wall." If someone calls you a flake, they basically mean you're a weirdo. WORD FAMILYflake: flaked, flakes, flakey, flaking, flaky+/flakey: flakiness/flaky: flakier, flakiest, flakily USAGE EXAMPLESIn the evening, still more flakes flew in Washington. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Sweat the onion, minced garlic, red pepper flakes and paprika for 3 minutes. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) In a small saucepan, combine the vinegar, soy sauce, sugar and chile flakes and bring to a boil over high heat, stirring once or twice. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1n a small fragment of something broken off from the whole Syn|Hypo|Hyper bit, chip, fleck, scrap matchwood fragments of wood exfoliation, scale, scurfa 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, splintera small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal dandersmall scales from animal skins or hair or bird feathers that can cause allergic reactions in some people dandruffloose scales shed from the scalp fragment a piece broken off or cut off of something else 2v come off in flakes or thin small pieces Syn|Hyper flake off, peel, peel off break away, break off, chip, chip off, come off break off (a piece from a whole) 3v form into flakes The substances started to flake Hyper form assume a form or shape 4v cover with flakes or as if with flakes 2Hyper cover provide with a covering or cause to be covered n a crystal of snow 3Syn|Hyper snowflake crystal a solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure n a person with an unusual or odd personality Syn|Hypo|Hyper eccentric, eccentric person, geek, oddball crackpot, crank, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball a whimsically eccentric person nutter, wacko, whackoa person who is regarded as eccentric or mad anomaly, unusual person a person who is unusual |
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