flake

flake

1. hiutale

2. (arkeologia) iskos

3. yhteys|arkikieli|k=en hömppä; epäluotettava henkilö jonka lupaukset eivät pidä; henkilö, joka peruu viime hetkellä yms.

Esimerkkejä:

flakes of snow

corn flakes

The paint is coming off in flakes.

Liittyvät sanat: snowflake

Synonyymisanakirja

flake

kappale, osa, pala, palanen, lastu, pilke, sirpale, siru, hiutale, pilkku, täplä, viiru, muru, tilkku, osanen, säpäle, hilse, säle, pirstale.

Rimmaavat sanat

flake rimmaa näiden kanssa:

jalake, olake, sulake, automaattisulake, suulake...

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Englannin sanakirja

flake englanniksi

1. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything

There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls.

flakes of dandruff

2. A scale of a fish or similar animal

3. puhekieltä A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.

4. puhekieltä A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.

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

5. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.

6. To break or chip off in a flake.

The paint flaked off after only a year.

7. puhekieltä To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.

He said hed come and help, but he flaked.''

8. puhekieltä To store an item such as rope in layers

The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment.

9. puhekieltä to hit (another person).

10. puhekieltä dogfish Dogfish.

11. puhekieltä The meat of the gummy shark.

12. 1999, R. Shotton, w:Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations|Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Case studies of the management of elasmobranch fisheries, Part 1, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=71EbAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Flake%22+shark+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22Flake%22+shark+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=a9hQT7TQHqnNmAXZz_SWCg&redir_esc=y page 746,

Larger shark received about 10%/kg less than those in the 4-6 kg range. Most of the Victorian landed product is wholesaled as carcasses on the Melbourne Fish Market where it is sold to fish and chip shops, the retail sector and through restaurants as ‘flake’.

13. 2007, Archie Gerzee, WOW! Tales of a Larrikin Adventurer, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=05TwkwbxYXYC&pg=PA141&dq=%22Flake%22+shark+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=a9hQT7TQHqnNmAXZz_SWCg&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22Flake%22%20shark%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 141,

The local fish shop sold a bit of flake (shark) but most people were too spoiled to eat shark. The main item on the Kiwi table was still snapper, and there was plenty of them, caught by the Kiwis themselves, so no shortage whatsoever.

14. 2007, Lyall Robert Ford, 101 ways to Improve Your Health, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ELJWkR7JoGIC&pg=PA45&dq=%22Flake%22+shark+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=U9xQT8P3Jaj0mAWv5ZyGCg&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22Flake%22%20shark%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 45,

Until recently, deep-sea fish were considered to have insignificant levels of mercury but even these now contain higher levels than they used to, so you should also avoid the big fish like tuna, swordfish, and flake (shark) that are highest up the food chain.

15. puhekieltä A paling; a hurdle.

16. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.

17. English Husbandman

You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer.

18. puhekieltä A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.

19. puhekieltä (alt form) (qualifier)

20. Frank T. Bullen, The Cruise of the Cachalot: The Story of a New Bedford Whaler

Flake after flake ran out of the tubs, until we were compelled to hand the end of our line to the second mate to splice his own on to.

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