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A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, paint, or fish
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The meat of the gummy shark
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to hit (another person)
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dogfish
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A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone
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A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living

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

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{n} a scale of iron, flock of snow or fire, layer, a scaffold made of hurdles for drying codfish
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As it relates to the condition of a marble determining value A sign of damage, a small portion that's missing from the surface of a glass marble Smaller that a chip (see ) A flake will reduce the value of a marble Slang, an unreliable hobbyist
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a crystal of snow
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A person who is flighty, unreliable or impractical
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To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through
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To separate into flaky pieces with fingers or fork Usually used in reference to cooked fish
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A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes
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To separate into small pieces with a folk
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A fragment removed from a core or nucleus of cryptocrystaline or fine-grained rock by percussion or pressure May be used as a tool with no further deliberate modification, may be RETOUCHED, or may serve as a PREFORM for further reduction
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A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash
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To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off
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A platform built from wooden poles for drying fish
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A thin, semi detached segment of rock that could conceivably fully detach during a climb Depending on the circumstances, a failing flake can cause a climber to "tomato-out" (see below)
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cover with flakes or as if with flakes form into flakes; "The substances started to flake
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A flint or stone artefact of which the length: width ratio is less than 2: 1
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Tobacco pressed into cakes, then cut into generous irregularly shaped pieces of ‘flakes’ In some countries the term ‘flake’ means sliced pipe tobacco
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To break or chip off in a flake
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A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable
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To store an item such as rope in layers
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A thin flat asymmetrical piece of flint or other stone which was intentionally removed from a tool or projectile core during the process of manufacture or sharpening/resharpening
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a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"
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Shark meat
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To lightly break foods into small, thin pieces, usually with the tines of a fork
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A flake is a small thin piece of something, especially one that has broken off a larger piece. Large flakes of snow began swiftly to fall. oat flakes
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To fold a sail in preparation for storage
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to frame, or be framed
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Small bits of shredded recycled PET bottles that are easier to melt down in the recycling process
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a person with an unusual or odd personality
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If something such as paint flakes, small thin pieces of it come off. They can see how its colours have faded and where paint has flaked. Flake off means the same as flake. The surface corrosion was worst where the paint had flaked off
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cover with flakes or as if with flakes
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A paling; a hurdle
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come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"
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To break food gently into small pieces
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A piece of stone detached from a core by striking the core with another stone
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A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things
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To form into flakes
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A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish
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A thin flat chip of glass missing from an insulator Usually caused by something striking the edge of the skirt or wire groove ridge A flake can be almost any size
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A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc
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{f} peel; chip; come off in small pieces; form into flakes; cover with flakes
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form into flakes; "The substances started to flake"
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A chip of stone that has the diagnostic property of conchoidal fracture
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Means to break or pull apart a food, like chicken or fish, that divides naturally All you do is follow these divisions, pulling at them gently with one or two forks, or flake with your fingers
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n A rock formation where a 'flake' of rock sticks out from the rest of the wall
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{i} small piece, fragment, chip; stratum; strange person (Slang); cocaine (Slang); frame for drying fish
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An unusually sharp-edged stone fragmented, struck, or pressured off of a core (a larger rock or nodule) See detached piece
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To use a fork or other utensil to break off pieces or layers of food
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Chopped up pieces of recycled plastic bottles These tiny pieces are melted and formed into pellets, which are stretched into long fibers like thread and woven into fabric for clothing
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