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Flake

noun

A crystal of snow. Synonym: snowflake.

A person with an unusual or odd personality. Synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, geek, oddball.

A small fragment of something broken off from the whole. Synonyms: bit, chip, fleck, scrap.

verb

(past & past part. flaked; pres. part. flaking)

Form into flakes.

Cover with flakes or as if with flakes.

Come off in flakes or thin small pieces. Synonyms: flake off, peel, peel off.

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"Flake" Quotes from Famous Books

... around us was a pathless scene of brown heather, here and there patched with the deceitful green of some perilous well-e'e; though the skies were sullen, and the bleak wind gusty, and every now and then a straggling flake of snow, strewed in our way from the invisible hand of the cloud, was a token of a coming drift, still a joyous encouragement was shed into our bosoms, and we saw in the wildness of the waste, and ...

— Ringan Gilhaize - or The Covenanters • John Galt

... candles in the silver candlesticks seemed to become a noisy flaring, and through the large room the falling of a waxen flake on the polished table rang out distinctly; the string of a violin broke, and it sounded like a pistol-shot in the stillness. Her Highness remained unmoved, with eyes fixed upon the musicians. The tension was almost intolerable. The victory seemed ...

— A German Pompadour - Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Graevenitz, - Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg • Marie Hay

... hunters unable to fire for an instant. Gholab ducked behind a huge tree, and the infuriated brute crashed full into it, knocking off a great flake of the bark and wood. Stunned for an instant, it stood glaring around, and in that ...

— The Rogue Elephant - The Boys' Big Game Series • Elliott Whitney

... suppose you would come to a limit, if you could only see it. Notice that the little flakes already differ somewhat from the large ones: because I can bend them up and down, and they stay bent; while the large flake, though it bent easily a little way, sprang back when you let it go, and broke when you tried to bend it far. And a large mass ...

— The Ethics of the Dust • John Ruskin

... flake of fire floated through the gloom, rocking to and fro like some vast bird upon its pinions. We had seen many such that night, torn by the gale from the crest of the blazing curtain as I have described. But—but—"Horace," whispered Leo through his chattering ...

— Ayesha - The Further History of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed • H. Rider Haggard

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