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flakes, plural;
  1. Lay (a rope) in loose coils in order to prevent it from tangling
    • - a cable had to be flaked out
  2. Lay (a sail) down in folds on either side of the boom

Noun
  1. A single turn of a coiled rope or hawser

  1. form into flakes; "The substances started to flake"
  2. snowflake: a crystal of snow
  3. cover with flakes or as if with flakes
  4. eccentric: a person with an unusual or odd personality
  5. bit: a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"
  6. peel off: come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"
  7. Cadbury Flake is a bar of thinly folded milk chocolate produced in Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland and South Africa by Cadbury.
  8. 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. ...
  9. 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. ...
  10. "Flake" is a song written and sung by Jack Johnson. It is Johnson's debut single and was released as the only single from his album Brushfire Fairytales.
  11. (Flakes (film)) Flakes is a 2007 American comedy film, directed by Michael Lehmann and starring Aaron Stanford and Zooey Deschanel. This film was written by Chris Poche & Karey Kirkpatrick
  12. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, paint, or fish; A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone; A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living; To break or chip ...
  13. (flaking) Breaking or tending to break into flakes
  14. (Flaked) [feed] rolled or cut into flat pieces with or without prior steam conditioning.
  15. (Flakes) Randomly oriented internal thermal cracks ("shatter cracks") in steels resulting from critical combinations of stress and hydrogen content. In a fracture surface‚ flakes appear as bright silvery areas; on an etched surface they appear as short discontinuous cracks.
  16. (Flakes) Short discontinuous internal fissures in ferrous metals attributed to stresses produced by localized transformation and decreased solubility of hydrogen during cooling after hot working. ...
  17. (Flakes) Internal fissures causing small slivers that are either missing from the wire surface or easily dislodged.
  18. (Flakes) Part of the GoldCosmetica Essentials line, genuine gold leaf and genuine silver leaf flakes of diminutive size. These flakes are used to produce highly decorative effects for cosmetics and body treatments. Please see gold leaf colors.
  19. (FLAKING) A form of paint failure characterized by the detachment of small pieces of the film from the surface of previous coat of paint. Cracking or blistering usually precedes it.
  20. (Flaking) Passing ground coffee between two flat rollers that squeeze coffee grounds into a flat shape.
  21. (Flaking) The detachment of pieces of paint from the substrate, caused by a loss of adhesion and elasticity. Also known as scaling.
  22. (Flaking) Shreddy, with shorter fragments.
  23. (FLAKING) A condition sometimes occurring during removal of masking tape in which flakes or particles of paint flake away from the tape backing.
  24. (FLAKING) Loss of small islands of paint, or other surface material, or even ground layers following cleavage, blistering, or buckling action in paintings or similar works of art.
  25. (Flaking) A finish failure, wherein the top layer of finish loses its bond with the previous layer or the wood.