flake

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n. 小薄片, 扁薄的一层, 火星, 晒鱼架子 vt. 使成薄片 vi. 剥落

发音

US
UK /fleɪk/
AU
其它

词形变化

flakes 复数 flaked flakes 三单 flakes flaking flaking 现在分词 flaked 过去式 flaked 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything

    小片

    薄片

    There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls.

    flakes of dandruff

  2. 2.

    A scale of a fish or similar animal

  3. 3.

    A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.

  4. 4.

    A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.

    非正式

    She makes pleasant conversation, but she's kind of a flake when it comes time for action.

  5. 5.

    A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.

  6. 6.

    A flat turn or tier of rope.

  7. 7.

    A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.

    美国 俚语 政治 法律
  8. 8.

    A wire rack for drying fish.

  9. 1.

    Dogfish.

    英国 不可数
  10. 2.

    The meat of the gummy shark.

    澳大利亚 不可数
  11. 1.

    A paling; a hurdle.

    英国 方言
  12. 2.

    A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.

  13. 3.

    A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.

    航海 交通
  14. 4.

    Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).

    航海 交通
v.
  1. 1.

    To break or chip off in a flake.

    剥落

    The paint flaked off after only a year.

  2. 2.

    To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.

    非正式

    He said he'd come and help, but he flaked.

  3. 3.

    To store an item such as rope or sail in layers

    工程

    The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment.

  4. 4.

    To hit (another person).

    爱尔兰 俚语
  5. 5.

    To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.

    美国 俚语 政治 法律
  6. 6.

    To lay out on a flake for drying.

    flake a fish

词汇关系

名词

同义词 8

bit chip scrap geek eccentric snowflake oddball fleck

上位词 5

actor crystal worker fragment doer

下位词 10

scale nut crank splinter nutcase wacko fruitcake nutter crackpot sliver

部分词 1

water

整体词 2

snow snowfall
动词

同义词 3

peel peel off flake off

上位词 6

cover form chip break off break away come off

相关短语

flake out 入睡, 昏过去, 昏迷, 昏倒 flake off 剥落 flake white [化] 铅白; 碳酸铅白 flake salt flake down 雪片似地落下,纷纷落下 rye flake corn flake 玉米片；粟米片 bread flake soap flake [化] 皂片 bran flake [粮食] 麸片 rice flake snow flake corn flakes (corn-flake 的复数) 玉米片；粟米片

词源

From Middle English flake (“a flake of snow”), from Old English flacca and/or Old Norse flak (“loose or torn piece”) (compare Old Norse flakna (“to flake or chip”)), from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”). Cognate with Norwegian flak (“slice, sliver”, literally “piece torn off”), Swedish flak (“a thin slice”), Danish flage (“flake”), German Flocke (“flake”), Dutch vlak (“smooth surface, plain”) and vlok (“flake”), as well as with Latin plaga (“flat surface, district, region”) and Welsh llech (“slate, tablet”). Doublet of plage.

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