Need another word that means the same as “flake”? Find 22 synonyms and 30 related words for “flake” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Flake” are: snowflake, bit, chip, fleck, scrap, eccentric, eccentric person, geek, oddball, sliver, wafer, shaving, paring, peeling, flake off, peel, peel off, scale off, blister, come off, come off in layers
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “flake” as a noun can have the following definitions:
bit | The cutting part of a drill usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press. You could see everything All her bits. |
chip | The act of chipping something. Mulch the shrubs with cedar chips. |
eccentric | A person of a specified kind usually with many eccentricities. A friendly eccentric. |
eccentric person | A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities. |
fleck | A small particle or speck of something. Brushing a few flecks of dandruff from his suit. |
geek | A person with an unusual or odd personality. A computer geek. |
oddball | A strange or eccentric person. She was seen as a bit of an oddball. |
paring | A thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something. She could peel an apple with a single long paring. |
peeling | Loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales. |
scrap | A small piece or amount of something, especially one that is left over after the greater part has been used. There was not a scrap left. |
shaving | The action of shaving. Shaving foam. |
sliver | A small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal. There was a sliver of light under his door. |
snowflake | A flake of snow, especially a feathery ice crystal, typically displaying delicate sixfold symmetry. These parents think their kid is such a special snowflake that they should be allowed to circumvent the rules. |
wafer | A thin disc of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist. Wafers of smoked salmon. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “flake” as a verb can have the following definitions:
blister | Cause blisters to form on the surface of. Her feet blistered during the long hike. |
chip | Play a chip shot. Her tooth chipped. |
come off | Reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress. |
come off in layers | Be found or available. |
flake off | Cover with flakes or as if with flakes. |
peel | (of an outer layer) come off in strips or small pieces. The paint in my house is peeling off. |
peel off | Strip the skin off. |
scale off | Take by attacking with scaling ladders. |
artifact | A man-made object taken as a whole. |
chip | Play a chip shot. Craftsmen chipped the blocks of flint to the required shape. |
clipper | A nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform. A set of hair clippers. |
crisp | Of food develop a crisp surface in an oven or under a grill. Crisp potato chips. |
crystal | Articles made of crystal glass. Ice crystals formed where his breath froze. |
dint | A dent or hollow in a surface. The metal was dull and dinted. |
fragment | Break or cause to break into fragments. Nathan remembered fragments of the conversation. |
fragmentation | Separating something into fine particles. The fragmentation of society into a collection of interest groups. |
gouge | Make a rough hole or indentation in (a surface), especially so as to mar or disfigure it. He d gouged wads out of Morty. |
grain | 1 7000 pound equals a troy grain or 64 799 milligrams. A grain of sugar. |
granule | A tiny grain. Granules of sugar. |
grit | Cover with a grit. Layers of impervious shales and grits. |
molecule | (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything. |
nick | Make a nick or nicks in. He s in the nick. |
obsidian | Acid or granitic glass formed by the rapid cooling of lava without crystallization; usually dark, but transparent in thin pieces. |
part | Force take or pull apart. In such a place his part is to make good. |
pellet | Hit with or as if with pellets. He had also been struck by a number of shotgun pellets. |
phial | A small cylindrical glass bottle, typically used for medical samples or for potions or medicines. A phial of blood. |
piece | Slowly make sense of something from separate pieces of evidence. Take a car to pieces. |
rice | Force cooked potatoes or other vegetables through a sieve or ricer. Riced boiled potatoes. |
sand | Smooth or polish with sandpaper or a mechanical sander. No one has the sand to stand against him. |
scrap | Discard or remove from service a redundant old or inoperative vehicle vessel or machine especially so as to convert it to scrap metal. There was not a scrap of aggression in him. |
secede | Withdraw from an organization or communion. The kingdom of Belgium seceded from the Netherlands in 1830. |
shard | A piece of broken ceramic, metal, glass, or rock, typically having sharp edges. Shards of glass flew in all directions. |
shred | Reduce documents to unreadable strips by feeding them into a shredder. He really can shred that guitar. |
sliver | Break up into splinters or slivers. A sliver of cheese. |
snowflake | An overly sensitive or easily offended person, or one who believes they are entitled to special treatment on account of their supposedly unique characteristics. These little snowflakes will soon discover that life doesn t come with trigger warnings. |
splinter | Divide into slivers or splinters. He crashed into a fence splintering the wooden barricade. |
sterling | British money especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK. This organization does sterling work for youngsters. |
thorn | A thorny bush shrub or tree especially a hawthorn. The issue has become a thorn in renewing the peace talks. |
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