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How to pronounce flake in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms snowflake
Type of crystal
Type Words
Synonyms flake off, peel, peel off
Type of break away, break off, chip, chip off, come off
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Synonyms bit, chip, fleck, scrap
Type of fragment
Has types sliver, exfoliation, matchwood, scale, scurf, splinter
Derivation flakey, flaky
Type Words
Synonyms eccentric, eccentric person, geek, oddball
Type of somebody, someone, soul, individual, mortal, person
Has types nut case, wacko, crank, screwball, nutter, fruitcake, crackpot, nut, whacko
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Type of cover
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Type of form


The substances started to flake.

Examples of flake

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Once cooled, gently flake salmon away from the skin and break into large chunks.
From the dailynews.com
After 10 minutes, remove the skins from the fish and flake the fish in its bowl.
From the independent.co.uk
Bottom right, mammalian long-bone fragments with impact notches and flake scars.
From the sciencedaily.com
Carefully ease the fish away from the bones, and flake into small chunky pieces.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
On-screen, Bridges is unself-conscious and often is cast as an easygoing flake.
From the stltoday.com
There is always a few that have to do the work, and some others that flake off.
From the guardian.co.uk
Cook for 3 or 4 minutes per side or until the fillets flake easily with a fork.
From the timesunion.com
Vinyl siding won't rot or flake, doesn't have to be painted and is termite-proof.
From the courier-journal.com
He also was charmed by the enthusiasm of the sisters who put the flake on eBay.
From the inrich.com
More examples
  • Form into flakes; "The substances started to flake"
  • Snowflake: a crystal of snow
  • Cover with flakes or as if with flakes
  • Eccentric: a person with an unusual or odd personality
  • Bit: a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"
  • Peel off: come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"
  • Cadbury Flake is a bar of thinly folded milk chocolate produced in Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland and South Africa by Cadbury.
  • Flake is a term used in Australia to indicate the flesh of any of several species of small shark, particularly Gummy shark. The term probably arose in the late 1920s when the large-scale commercial shark fishery off the coast of Victoria was established. ...
  • Flake is a programming library that is used in the KOffice 2 series. Flake provides the basic concept of a "shape". To the end user a shape appears as some piece of content like an image or a text. ...