| NOUN | phenomenon | flake, snowflake | a crystal of snow |
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| person | flake, eccentric, eccentric person, oddball, geek | a person with an unusual or odd personality | |
| object | flake, bit, chip, fleck, scrap | a small fragment of something broken ... / broken off from the whole | |
| VERB | contact | flake | form into flakes |
| contact | flake | cover with flakes or as if with flakes | |
| contact | flake, peel off, peel, flake off | come off in flakes or thin small pieces |
| Sounds | fley'k | |
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| Rhymes | ache ... wake / Wake: 58 rhymes with eyk... | |
| Meaning | A crystal of snow. | |
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| Synonym | snowflake | |
| Part of | snow, snowfall | precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals |
| Broader | crystal | A solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure |
| Substance of | snow | A layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground |
| Substances | water, H2O | binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid / liquid |
| Spanish | ampo, copo de nieve, copo | |
| Catalan | floc | |
| Meaning | A person with an unusual or odd personality. | |
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| Synonyms | eccentric, eccentric person, oddball, geek | |
| Narrower | crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball | A whimsically eccentric person |
| nutter, wacko, whacko | A person who is regarded as eccentric or mad | |
| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul | A human being |
| Spanish | estrafalario, excéntrico, geek | |
| Catalan | estrafolari, excèntric, extravagant | |
| Meaning | A small fragment of something broken ... / broken off from the whole. | |
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| Synonyms | bit, chip, fleck, scrap | |
| Narrower | matchwood | fragments of wood |
| scale, scurf, exfoliation | A thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin | |
| scurf | (botany) a covering that resembles scales or bran that covers some plant parts | |
| splinter, sliver | A small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal | |
| Broader | fragment | A piece broken ... / broken off or cut ... / cut off of something else |
| Spanish | átomo, brizna, copo, fragmento, jirón, miaja, migaja, parte, pedazo, pizca, retazo, triza, trocito | |
| Catalan | àtom, bocí, gota, mica, miqueta, tros, trosset | |
| Adjectives | flaky, flakey | made of or resembling flakes |
| Verbs | flake | come off in flakes or thin small pieces |
| Meaning | form into flakes. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Example | "The substances started to flake" | |
| Broader | form | assume a form or shape |
| Meaning | Cover with flakes or as if with flakes. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Broader | cover | Provide with a covering or cause to be covered |
| Meaning | come off in flakes or thin small pieces. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Synonyms | peel off, peel, flake off | |
| Broader | chip, chip off, come off, break away, break off | break off (a piece from a whole) |
| Spanish | desconcharse | |
| Nouns | flake | a small fragment of something broken ... / broken off from the whole |
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