flake
1. a crystal of snow • Syn: snowflake • Hypernyms: crystal • Substance Holonyms: snow • Part Holonyms: snow, snowfall • Substance Meronyms: water, H2O 2. a person with an unusual or odd personality • Syn: eccentric, eccentric person, oddball, geek • Hypernyms: anomaly, unusual person • Hyponyms: crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball, nutter, wacko, whacko 3. a small fragment of something broken off from the whole - a bit of rock caught him in the eye • Syn: bit, chip, fleck, scrap • Derivationally related forms: flaky, flakey, chip (for: chip) • Hypernyms: fragment • Hyponyms: matchwood, scale, scurf, exfoliation, splinter, sliver
1. form into flakes (Freq. 1) - The substances started to flake • Hypernyms: form • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s 2. cover with flakes or as if with flakes • Hypernyms: cover • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something 3. come off in flakes or thin small pieces - The paint in my house is peeling off • Syn: peel off, peel, flake off • Derivationally related forms: peeling (for: peel) • Hypernyms: chip, chip off, come off, break away, break off • Verb Frames: - Something ----s
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